LukaD's Blog
Learn Windows Azure
Nice, a renovated learn page on Windows Azure portal, giving a one-way view into Windows Azure...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/08/2011
Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
Released less then a month ago, I believe this accelerator really makes it easy to deploy multiple...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/07/2011
Cluster Computing (HPC) and the Cloud
I just had a chance to quickly review a whitepaper by David Chappell describing the changes that...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/06/2011
Putting it all together: WF4 + Windows Azure
A couple of days ago a first CTP of the WF Activity Pack for Windows Azure was released. It is the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/06/2011
Stanford Researchers Invent Transparent Li-Ion Battery
Sweet , read article here. Invisible laptops or phones… that would be weird ….
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 07/29/2011
HPC made easy with Windows Azure and HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2
Check out this blog post to see what’s new in the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2. Lots of new...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 07/02/2011
Free Ingress for all Windows Azure Customers starting July 1st, 2011
I just read this Windows Azure blog post explaining that we a big chance in the pricing for...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/24/2011
First Fujitsu Windows Azure Appliance to launch in Japan
Interesting news, the first instance of the Windows Azure Appliance will be launched and available...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/08/2011
Windows 8 Preview
Nice features, smooth UI, … looks good! Article here, Video here… Technorati Tags: Windows 8
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 06/02/2011
New Windows Azure Pricing Calculator
I just had a chance to look at the newly release Windows Azure pricing Calculator … It rocks and is...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 05/27/2011
New features of the Windows Azure AppFabric in June CTP
A couple of days ago new enhancements to Service Bus as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 05/17/2011
Running Hadoop on Windows Azure within minutes!
Today I came across a blog post featuring the process of how to deploy Hadoop environment onto the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 05/15/2011
HPC Server SP1: Burst to Azure with no programming
I just read through this blog post and it nicely displays how the HPC Server SP1 works with Windows...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 05/09/2011
New Announcements about Windows Azure @MIX
A couple of days ago some new announcements were made at the MIX conference in Las Vegas. More...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/15/2011
Gartner: 2011 is the Year of the PaaS
A couple of weeks ago Gartner released a press statement, stating that in 2011 we will see a huge...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/13/2011
Dynamics on the Windows Azure Platform
Interesting announcement and an article associated with it, showing that Microsoft is moving to the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 04/12/2011
SQL Azure, OData on Windows Phone 7
Nice blog post, explaining step-by-step on how to get SQL Azure, OData, and Windows Phone 7 working...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/31/2011
Loving it: the marriage of Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure!
Just follow the link and get your Windows Phone 7 Cloud enabled! Technorati Tags: Windows...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/30/2011
New Eclipse Plugin for Windows Azure Platform
Last week the availability of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of a new plugin for...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/30/2011
Building Composite Applications with Windows Azure AppFabric
I recently reviewed a great blog post on the topic of Composite Applications on top of the Windows...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/30/2011
High-level Overview of SQL Azure Benefits
This video showcases the numerous benefits and usage scenarios of SQL Azure. It displays how SQL...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/21/2011
Updated Windows Azure Companion
Windows Azure Companion is an amazing way of how you can deploy platform components as well as...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/20/2011
In case you missed: Windows Azure SDK 1.4 is available
10 days ago it was published that new versions of Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/20/2011
Testing Out Hybrid Scenarios on the Windows Azure Platform
Today after some time I had a chance to play around with the new functionality of the Windows Azure...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/02/2011
European Cloud Computing Futures: 2.4M New Jobs by 2015
I just came across and interesting article in EWeek that predicts there will be 2.4 million new jobs...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 03/01/2011
Your Business! Your Fame!
There is an amazing campaign/contest going on in the Central & Eastern Europe markets, driven by...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/28/2011
Windows Azure + Java = Match Made in Clouds!?
Today a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Azure Starter Kit for Java became...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/24/2011
Park Your Tractor Next to My IT-PAC Rack ….
Ha, sounds funny, right? But the idea is actually taken from this interesting article about how new...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/07/2011
Goin’ Extra Small in the Azure Cloud
Windows Azure team just announced that Windows Azure Extra Small Instances are now available as a...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/04/2011
Cobol in the Azure Clouds?
Ha, I just came across this article in the CIO magazine that describes the functionality of the new...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 02/01/2011
Connecting Windows Phone 7 With Windows Azure
A couple of days ago Microsoft Research has posted Windows Phone 7 + Cloud Services SDK, that...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/28/2011
Microsoft Touch Mouse
Interesting concept, have to get one of these when available …. Taking it even further then the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/07/2011
Wordle View of My Blog in 2010
Looks like, that I was pretty consistent in the topic I was covering on my Blog in 2010 …. :
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 01/03/2011
Windows Azure Platform Training – December 2010
Last week an updated version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit was released. It is...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/19/2010
7 Things about the SQL Azure Reporting
I just read thru this great blog post about the 7 things you have to know about SQL Reporting on the...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/06/2010
PDC Announced Bits for Windows Azure are Available!
For all of you, who are monitoring Windows Azure Platform, here are some great news. The bits that...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 12/01/2010
Amazing Whitepaper about SQL Azure Architecture
Were you wondering how SQL Azure architecture actually looks like? If so then you have to check this...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/24/2010
PDC10 Announcements
In case you have missed, here is the link to the Windows Azure announcements that were presented...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 11/02/2010
Microsoft PDC 10 goes LIVE today!
Personally I can’t wait to hear the sessions and ALL the new announcements around Windows Azure on...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 10/28/2010
Ray Ozzie’s Dawn of a New Day
I just had the chance to read the blog post from Ray Ozzie, so far still Chief Software Architect...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 10/28/2010
New Version of Windows Azure Training Kit Available
A couple of days ago the new version of Windows Azure Training Kit was made available for download....
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 10/05/2010
Windows Azure Gets Additional Open Source (OSS) Tools & Support
Yesterday some new great tools were just released that enable every developer to fully embrace and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/20/2010
Best Practices & Framework for SQL Azure Database Client Applications
I just read through the article posted by SQL CAT, that covers the topic of how to write efficient...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/13/2010
All about Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
There are some updates on an interesting topic related to Windows Azure Platform, which is connected...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/07/2010
Measuring Cloud Data Access Speed: Azure Throughput Analyzer
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon another project from the Microsoft Research eXtreme Computing Group...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 09/07/2010
“Orleans” and Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) Group
Recently there are some blogs mentioning Orleans as the new platform for the Microsoft cloud and...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/20/2010
Windows Azure Security Architecture
I just read the Windows Azure Security Architecture whitepaper, which is describing security...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/17/2010
Migrating Your Data Into the SQL Azure Database
Last week a new set of tools was released to support copying of the data to the SQL Azure databases....
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/17/2010
Bioinformatics Research as a Service
Well these days everything is becoming a service in the cloud! It is amazing of what kind of options...
Author: Luka Debeljak Date: 08/16/2010