Microsoft Azure, The Cloud for the Rest of Us

Be warned, while Amazon’s headline prices are a little lower than Azure, there’s a danger you’ll get nickel and dimed to the point where you could easily end up spending more money. There’s barely any free customer support, but Amazon will sell you a support plan and so on. Little handholding from Amazon (source infra)

Microsoft Azure: Cloud for the rest of us
Bill Bennett
Cloud computing is great. Yet anything beyond Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud can be daunting for those of us who aren't IT professionals....(read more at the link above)

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Microsoft Azure, Cloud in a Box

Microsoft to try again to deliver an Azure 'cloud in a box' appliance | ZDNet: "... According to sources, customers and partners will order the coming appliances directly from Microsoft and Microsoft will be providing them with direct support. I haven't heard anything about intended pricing, but these appliances will be aimed, at least for now, at partners and large business customers only, sources said. When Microsoft announced its original plans for Windows Azure Appliances in 2010, officials said that OEMs including HP, Dell and Fujitsu would have Windows Azure Appliances in production and available to customers by the end of 2010. Fujitsu ended up introducing an Azure Appliance product in August 2011; the other two OEM partners never seemed to do so at all (best I could tell)...." (read more at link above)

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Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure are top dogs in cloud storage

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Virtual Firewalls, Load Balancing Appliances Offered as Cloud ... By Scott M. Fulton, III There's a very rapidly emerging class of smaller cloud service providers whose business model is to lease cloud services to a handful of customers. Imagine a small-town CSP ... ReadWriteCloud

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The 7 Biggest Risks Of Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape, and the conversation around adoptingcloud technology has progressed from “if” to “when.” Virtualization.net

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Federal Cloud Strategy: 10 Case Studies InformationWeek The White House has instructed agencies to think 'cloud first' for new IT requirements. Here's how government CIOs are making the transition. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek We will plant a tree for each of the first 5000 downloads. ... Cloud Computing: Hardware As Software CloudTweaks News And, we do not wish to profit from the confusion created by the broad marketing of cloud computing to the public. So here we offer a definition of cloud computing that is easy to understand, accurate, and without marketing hype. ... Acumatica Cloud ERP Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Tech Company MarketWatch (press release) Acumatica recognized for bringing the benefits of Cloud technology to mid-sized businesses needing accounting and ERP software. BETHESDA, Md., Dec 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Acumatica, a provider of Cloud ERP software, today announced it was ... 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