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December 2008 - Posts

• A year in the life of a Platform Architect - Month 2

  Things I've been thinking this month:  Must update my home laptop to Fedora 10 its been getting some good reviews  although I'm quite happy with version 9 Why do some products have more  documentation than you need and others its like they Read More... Posted 21 December 2008 14:22 by Grace.Mollison | 0 Comments

• Azure storage

  Just to confuse matters there are actually two types of storage with different data models! 1. Windows Azure storage service . The underlying data store is not Microsoft SQL Server. Windows Azure storage isn’t a relational system, and its query language Read More... Posted 18 December 2008 21:24 by Grace.Mollison | 2 Comments

• A definition or two

  I had a chat with Jamie http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/ this morning and realised I needed to have a simple set of definitions associated with the Cloud offerings from Microsoft . I was fairly happy where I am looking at azure and SDS but I started Read More... Posted 11 December 2008 22:11 by Grace.Mollison | 1 Comments

• My Adventures with Azure tentative first steps

  I've signed up for the beta created my solution  and so to really get started I needed to prepare my dev env . This involved installing the Azure SDK and installing the  CloudService msi which provides a Cloud environment for local testing and Read More... Posted 04 December 2008 22:49 by Grace.Mollison | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud Computing, Sql Data Services

• A year in the life of a Platform Architect - Month 1

  The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Conchango’s positions, strategies or opinions.   What is a Platform Architect (PA)   or   Infrastructure architect or <insert whatever random IT title you’ve Read More... Posted 01 December 2008 13:40 by Grace.Mollison | 2 Comments