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Because Old School Retail is Dead - NetSuite Acquires Retail Anywhere

 Short version NetSuite’s acquisition of Point of Sale (POS) vendor Retail Anywhere creates a powerful offering that allows retail businesses to...

0 replies - 1867 views - 01/16/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

When to Choose Azure Storage or Azure SQL Database

Question Recommended Technology Are you trying to keep costs low while storing significantly large data volumes in the multi-terabyte range? Use Windows...

0 replies - 1666 views - 01/15/13 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

Setting Up the Amazon Simple Notification System

The Amazon SNS is a robust way to send notification messages via multiple protocols like e-mail, SMS, HTTP, etc. There are many use cases where you can use...

0 replies - 1422 views - 01/15/13 by Pascal Alma in Articles

The Cloudcast - The Enterprise Debate in 2013

The Cloudcast (.net) #71 - Enterprise Cloud - The Debate Rages on in 2013 (37:20) Date: January 13, 2013 By: Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely ...

0 replies - 1149 views - 01/15/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Cloudy Links from Pie in the Sky

Things are starting to pick up after the holidays; some good links for your weekend reading this week. VM Depot: This is a new service for Windows Azure...

0 replies - 972 views - 01/15/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

Using Publish to Deploy Azure Cloud Service

In my previous post I created an Azure Cloud Service from scratch and deployed it, however I manually logged into Azure Portal and uploaded the...

0 replies - 1320 views - 01/14/13 by Phillip Haydon in Articles

Parsing JSON by Hand from Azure Mobile Services

This post is about parsing data by hand coming back from Azure Mobile Services. It does not rely on the MobileServiceCollectionView to populate controls with...

0 replies - 1772 views - 01/10/13 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

Why AWS is Important to IT Departments

Here's a five-minute video by CBT Nuggets trainer Jeremy Cioara that gives a 5-minute introduction to AWS and why the PaaS giant is vital to IT...

0 replies - 1694 views - 01/10/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Handling enum values with type converters in Windows Azure Mobile Services

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS).  It’s a brilliant technology that allows you to stand up powerful OData...

0 replies - 1494 views - 01/09/13 by Adam Hoffman in Articles

An Interview with a Heroku Expert Engineer

Steven Zeiler interviewed Nathaniel Jones, a Heroku expert, in order to discuss how a pro solves challenging problems using Ruby on Rails.

0 replies - 1533 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Mobile Support for AWS Management Console

Amazon Web Services recently announced that the AWS Management Console now supports tablet devices thanks to a "simple and intuitive web-based user...

0 replies - 1318 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Pie in the Sky Links for Cloudy Readers

 Happy New Year, everyone! The blog has been relatively quiet in the last few weeks, but that means we have accumulated a ton of interesting reading....

0 replies - 1330 views - 01/07/13 by Brian Swan in Articles

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing...

0 replies - 2530 views - 01/07/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Rock, Paper, Azure Re-launch!

I’m a little late getting this out (pesky vacations and all) but we re-launched Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA) a few weeks back with weekly competitions! ...

0 replies - 1386 views - 01/07/13 by Brian Hitney in Articles

Quentin Wall of Salesforce on 8 Key Capabilities of PaaS

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took...

0 replies - 2262 views - 01/06/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles