IaaS coming to Windows Azure

As I wrote in my last blog, VM roles aren’t an IaaS offering.

The good news is that IaaS really is coming to Windows Azure.

I got the news during a Microsoft training and was under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), but…  the news got public, so let’s talk about it.

Microsoft should release (soon in CTP?) an IaaS offering. ...

VM roles aren’t IaaS

Back in October 2010 I wrote about the PDC 2010 that the VM Role was bringing IaaS in the Windows Azure offering.

Well, I was wrong:  VM role isn’t IaaS at all.

Why?

VM roles VMs are stateless as Web & Worker roles are.

This means you provide a .vhd to Azure ; when the VM gets instantiated, the...

Defining PaaS: A flexible solution to meet your needs

I’ve posted a new blog entry on CGI’s (my company) cloud blog.

I’m introducing the concept of PaaS on a blog dominated so far by IaaS articles.

Applied SOA: Part 7–System Consistency

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition

In this article, I’ll cover system consistency.  In every distributed solution, a major...

Applied SOA: Part 6–Service Composition

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability

In this article, I’ll quickly cover service composition.

Service Composition is often stated as a goal of SOA.  I...