Archive for August, 2009

The Cloud – A disruptive game changer – just ask Nokia !

It’s often said that the Cloud will be a game changer and disruptive and that statement is put out there for the future but I believe we have already seen a huge example of this in the mobile telecommunications domain.  We have seen in the last twelve months the beginning of a fundamental change in [...]

Supporting SLA’s on the Cloud

What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly.
Software that purports to scale the applications on the cloud is not new, have a look at our prior blog post on this [...]

A brief overview of the Windows Azure Cloud Platform

The Windows Azure cloud platform includes Windows Azure, a Web-based Microsoft SQL Azure, and connectivity /  interoperability services with .NET Services. As with other Cloud platforms, Azure is a consumption-based pricing model.  A summary of the pricing is below and more details can be found here:
- Compute @ $0.12 / hour
- Storage @ $0.15 / [...]