OakLeaf Systems: Links to My Cloud Computing Tips at TechTarget’s SearchCloudComputing and Other Search… Sites

I’m a regular contributor of tips and techniques articles for Windows Azure apps development and DevOps strategy to TechTarget’s (@TechTarget) SearchCloudComputing site, and an occasional contributor of articles to their SearchSQLServer and SearchCloudApplications sites. Article require free registration to read in full.

The following table lists the topics I’ve covered to date:

Date	Title
11/27/2013	Visual Studio 2013 launch brings free Azure-based VSO preview: Visual Studio Online
10/31/2013	Five things every cloud developer needs to know about Windows Azure: Best practices for Azure developers
10/5/2013	Microsoft continues to improve Windows Azure autoscaling features, catches up with Amazon Web Services
8/15/2013	Unlock Windows Azure Development in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (.NET SDK 2.1 for Windows Azure)
8/??/2013	Integrate Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds with Windows Azure Pack’s Management Portal (in editing)
7/15/2013	Pay-As-You-Go Windows Azure BizTalk Services Changes EAI and EDI (“Changes” was “Democratizes” in my original version.)†
4/30/2013	Windows Azure competes with AWS, pushes more frequent, granular updates (Windows Azure IaaS GA, 4/26/2013 updates, SDK for .NET 2.0)
4/10/2013	HDInsight Service Preview for Azure debunks Hadoop's big data analytics angle (Store Hadoop data in Azure Storage Vault instead of HDFS)
1/22/2013	Build Device-Agnostic Data-Driven Apps for the Cloud with Visual Studio LightSwitch (HTML Client Preview 2, SharePoint Online Apps and Windows Azure Web Sites)
10/31/2012	Windows Azure Mobile Services creates backends for Windows 8, iPhone
9/13/2012	Windows Azure Services allows multi-tenant IaaS cloud (Windows Azure Services for Windows Server)
8/24/2012	Windows Azure updates create full-service cloud (New “Spring Wave” features)
7/19/2012	Windows Azure Active Directory enables single sign-on with cloud apps
7/12/2012	Tips for deploying SQL Azure Federations (for SearchCloudApplications.com)
6/25/2012	Analyzing 'big data' with Microsoft [Codename] Cloud Numerics
6/18/2012	Choosing SaaS applications for PaaS clouds* (Added-value/third-party apps)
6/18/2012	The battle for cloud services: Microsoft vs. Amazon* (Hadoop implementations)
6/11/2012	Windows Azure updates create full-service cloud (“Spring Wave” Upgrade)
5/1/2012	Big data buzz gets louder with Apache Hadoop and Hive (Hadoop on Azure)
4/5/2012	Manage, query SQL Azure Federations using T-SQL (for SearchSQLServer.com)
3/28/2012	Tips for deploying SQL Azure Federations (for SearchSQLServer.com)
3/24/2012	Examining the state of PaaS in the year of ‘big data’
1/24/2012	Microsoft cloud service lets citizen developers crunch big data (“Data Explorer”)
12/1/2011	Microsoft tests Social Analytics experimental cloud (Codename “Social Analytics”)
11/7/2011	Google, IBM, Oracle want piece of big data in the cloud
9/15/2011	Developments in the Azure and Windows Server 8 pairing (from //BUILD/)
9/8/2011	DevOps: Keep tabs on cloud-based app performance (Resources links)
8/2011	Microsoft's, Google's big data [analytics] plans give IT an edge (Resources links)
7/2011	Connecting cloud data sources with the OData API
7/2011	Sharding relational databases in the cloud
6/2011	Choosing a cloud data store for big data
4/2011	Microsoft brings rapid application development to the cloud
3/2011	How DevOps brings order to a cloud-oriented world
2/2011	Choosing from the major Platform as a Service providers
2/2011	How much are free cloud computing services worth?