Month: January 2015

Build Highly Scalable Websites and Web Apps with Microsoft Azure!

Deepika Nagpal

The IT Landscape is changing rapidly with a move away from hosting on traditional servers with their high capital costs to one that uses on-demand services that scale automatically to handle load. IT Departments are being challenged to reduce the cost and footprint of infrastructure and maintenance spend with a focus on reducing CAPEX while also increasing agility.

Microsoft Azure Websites is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for hosting websites and web applications. You do not have to manage virtual machines, network load balancers, or deployment infrastructure yourself. All of these capabilities are provided by the Azure Websites service. Focus on your application code, and let Azure take care of the infrastructure to scale and securely run it for you.

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Virtualization on Azure

Evelyn Dennis

You can make use of virtualization in your on-site data-centers, but if you’re using Azure you’ll definitely be relying on virtual machines to one extent or another. To create virtual servers on physical servers, you use software that sets up divisions between each virtual machine (VM) and allows them all to operate independently. This adds a layer of abstraction between information and the physical infrastructure that hosts it. This in turn gives you more flexibility on how you can manage and protect the various elements of your computing environment.

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Understanding the Internet of Things(IoT)

Deepika Nagpal

Smart locks, smart thermostats, smart cars — you’ve probably heard some of these terms lately, and you’re going to hear of them even more. But what are these things exactly — and what makes them so smart?

These devices are all part of an emerging category called the Internet of Things, or IoT for short. The Internet of Things is emerging as the next technology mega-trend, with repercussions across the business spectrum.

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