Tag Archives: scalability
Federations are coming to Windows Azure in 2011
Recently I wrote about how scalability and elasticity are achieved in the Windows Azure Platform. Today I want to discuss another issue concerning operating in the Cloud with large databases. Having a single large database running in a cloud environment (known as scaling-up) has some drawbacks. It may not be able to handle the load [...]
Scalability and Elasticity with Azure
Sometimes your IT infrastructure’s capacity for handling customer traffic needs to stretch; and other times it needs to shrink. But as a CIO, you do not want to pay for extra resources which may not be used. Neither do you want to lose business due to unexpected spikes in customer traffic. That is where Azure’s [...]
SQL Server ‘Denali’ CTP3 Released
This week Microsoft released its next-generation SQL Server database management system, code-named “Denali”, as a community technology preview (CTP3) release. The release comes with numerous enhancements in availability, manageability, programmability, scalability, performance and security to increase the server’s accessibility, scalability, ease of use and to lower operating costs. The most important features include: A new [...]
Understanding Windows Azure
The power, popularity and cost effectiveness of cloud-based computing continues to grow. That is why you should consider running your internet based or on-premises applications on Microsoft’s Windows Azure technology platform. In a previous post we introduced the Windows Azure cloud services platform. Now, in this series of posts we want explore in-depth the features [...]
Scalability in Azure Webinar success!
Yesterday Juan De Abreu presented our January Webinar “How to scale up, out or down in Windows Azure“ We’ve learnt lots of interesting stuff, among which: The different characteristics and sizes of VM’s in Windows Azure
Webinar: Scalability in Windows Azure
Common Sense Webinars are back! Next week Common Sense vicepresident, Juan De Abreu, will be presenting: “How to scale up, out or down in Windows Azure”
