VMRole
7th Jun 2012
Microsoft Windows Azure adds IaaS and Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
Microsoft is all set to lock horns with Amazon in the Cloud. Microsoft announced Windows Azure in 2008 as a .NET Platform as a Service (PaaS) and since then they have been adding features to make it more appealing to Java and PHP developers. It has reached a point where Windows Azure has become the polyglot PaaS and semi IaaS offering. With Worker Roles, customers could run a variety of workloads on Windows Azure.
22nd May 2012
PaaS - Under The Hood: Packaging and Deployment in Windows Azure - Part 1
Windows Azure is the platform used by many .NET developers to run their code. Though Windows Azure supports popular languages and frameworks like Java, Node.js and PHP, it was originally created for the .NET world. The very first step for the developers targeting Windows Azure is to package and deploy their code in a format that is expected by the platform. This article analyzes the elements of a Cloud application to be deployed on Windows Azure.
14th Feb 2012
AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.