I have been in many conversations lately about Software as a Service (Saas) and Cloud Infrastructure & Technology. In those conversations I have found that there is commonly a mixing of what people think Saas and Cloud actually mean. In reality, there are two autonomous concepts and Cloud should not be used interchangeably with Saas.... Continue reading →

I was working through some scenarios recently with Azure and Silverlight. I immediately decided a quick walk through for setting up a Silverlight Application running in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Application would be a cool project. This walk through I have Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, and the Azure SDK all installed. If you need... Continue reading →

I have tried to explain cloud computing in the past, but it never turns out well if I just explain what it is. So instead I have a few stories to tell instead, that provide reasons and why cloud model computing exists. I then have a bit to spin about why cloud computing is the... Continue reading →

Ok, so maybe it is a cloudy topic. There are a zillion reasons to use an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). SQL Server, Oracle, and a number of others are well built, can handle huge numbers of transactions, and have great data integrity. However as Dare Obasanjo asks on his blog, Building Scalable Websites: Are... Continue reading →

In this entry I am going to cover the basics of cloud computing, which will in turn provide a kick off point for my future blog entries I have in the works. I will explain in this entry what cloud computing is, where it exists, how it works, and most importantly the greatest benefits it... Continue reading →