Azure TCO and ROI Calculator

November 22nd, 2009

PDC brought a lot of new cloud content to Azure, however one great feature that has been added to the Windows Azure portal seems to have been slightly overlooked.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) calculator allows end users and organisations see how much money they are likely to save [...]

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What Is SQL Azure Database?

November 21st, 2009

SQL Azure, that’s just a SQL Database in the cloud right? Wrong… It actually offers all this and then some.
This new “hand drawn” video from the SQL Azure team shows why SQL Azure is much more than just a simple database and how it can make life easier and cheaper for all those database guys [...]

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Eye on Earth – Project Launch

November 17th, 2009

After months of hard work the Eye On Earth project has been launched and released to the public (go take a look).
The project undertaken for the European Environmental Agency allows users to view and rate up to date environmental information about both the air and water quality around Europe, utilizing many bleeding edge technologies such [...]

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What Is Azure? – Reading Geek Night

November 13th, 2009

I mentioned in my last post that I presented on “What Is Windows Azure?” at the first Reading Geek Night. This presentation was aimed at people who are new to the world of Windows Azure and aimed to be a quick introduction to wet their appetites.

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Deploying to the Cloud as Part of Your Daily Build

September 29th, 2009

I have recently been working on a big Azure application that we have been wanting to deploy to the cloud and test, to make sure that no unexpected bugs occur whilst the application is in the wild and give the opportunity to see how it performs.
Now the big problem has been deploying our application to [...]

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