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Cloud Foundry Foundation One Step Closer to Reality
Today is another exciting day in the Cloud Foundry community, with the Cloud Foundry Foundation taking a giant step toward becoming official: its draft governing documents and bylaws have been posted...
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Apprenda Is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
For years, private Platform as a Service (PaaS) has offered enterprises the opportunity to make enterprise software developers more productive and cut down on development costs. Apprenda has been at...
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Bluemix UI Updates: No Tricks and All Treats!
Trick or treat! Halloween is here in the U.S., and we have a fresh round of Bluemix announcements and Bluemix UI updates. Keep reading for details on all of the new “treats” this month: New IBM and...
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Apprenda Launches Its Private Platform as a Service on Amazon Web Services
If it wasn’t already clear when we made Apprenda available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace two weeks ago, we strongly believe in providing the most accessibility when it comes to using a private...
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What Does .NET’s Open-Source Future Mean for Developers and PaaS?
The world is rapidly being reshaped by software. It’s changing everything: how we work, how we monitor our health, how we spend time with our families, and more. Over time, quality of life around the...
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The Cloud Foundry Jenkins Plugin
style="width: 140px" src="http://www.activestate.com/sites/default/files/blog_import_images/jenkins-logo.png" class="as_feature_img as_left" />There’s a lot of interest in using Stackato in...
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Why PaaS Should Move Beyond the ‘Twelve-Factor App’
Inspired by Martin Fowler’s writings on application architectures and poor application development practices, a group of Heroku developers wrote a template for developing modern web apps called “The...
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Is Docker The Right Abstraction For PaaS?
Docker has been quickly adopted by nearly everyone and incorporated into everything from cloud technologies, to continuous integration and build systems, to solo developers working exclusively on...
View ArticleWhat Still Confuses You About PaaS?
Most people have heard the term SaaS and know what it means. Fewer people have heard IaaS and know what that means. At the 2014 Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California, far fewer people had heard PaaS...
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Announcing AES Dynamic Encryption enabled on Live streaming with Azure Media...
We are very excited to announce that AES dynamic encryption is also now available in Azure Media Services for your live streams. With Azure Media Services, you can configure AES dynamic encryption and...
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Working with Dates in Azure DocumentDB
JSON (www.json.org) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write yet also easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is at the heart of DocumentDB. We transmit...
View ArticleUpdate on Azure Storage Service Interruption
Yesterday evening Pacific Standard Time, Azure storage services experienced a service interruption across the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, which impacted multiple cloud services in these...
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Architecting a Disaster Recovery plan for Multi-tier Web Applications using...
Application software in an organization is the engine of business productivity and the most visible portion of its IT environment. Whether it be intranet applications or customer facing web...
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Azure Resource Manager 2.5 for Visual Studio
Previously known as Azure Resource Manager Tooling Preview The Azure Resource Manager 2.5 for Visual Studio enables you to: Create an application using the Azure Gallery templates. Create and edit...
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Chocolatey with Custom Script Extension on Azure VMs
This blog gives an overview of how to run Chocolatey commands on a remote Azure VM using Custom Script Extension. Chocolatey is a package manager for windows (similar to Yum/Apt-Get) used by Azure...
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Introducing the Azure Automation Script Converter
By now you’ve probably learned about the new Azure Automation service, which recently became generally available. You’ve learned how you can use Azure Automation to automate all your management...
View ArticleAzure HDInsight now Generally Available in China, Australia, and Japan East
In September, we announced that Microsoft was the first global cloud provider to have a publicly available cloud Hadoop offering in China in public preview. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce that...
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An End-to-End Prototype of AES Encryption with ACS Authentication and ACS...
Introduction This is a “sequel” to the author’s previous post An End-to-End Prototype of PlayReady Protection with ACS Authentication and ACS Token Authorization. In certain cases, full DRM protection...
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Migrating Existing Services to Regional Scope
In May 2014 we announced the general availability of Regional Virtual Network. This enabled users to utilize their virtual network at regional scale and enjoy new features such as ‘Reserved IPs’,...
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