Cumulux – Azure Consulting Services

It is about to be prime time for cloud computing. The Azure Services are stable- the pricing has been announced -The release date has been set – Customers are kicking the tires to see how Azure Services based cloud computing applications can help their application portfolio. Adopting Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift for [...]

Azure Pricing in plain English

Messages = $0.15/100K message operations , including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens
Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K
Cloud Computing price list from major vendors like Microsoft, Amazon , Google etc looks like the above statements. Seemingly simple but it is impossible to decipher what the “Total Cost [...]

Salesforce.com and Sharepoint Integration

We are working on a series of Cloud based connectors in line with our strategy to provide hybrid cloud computing solutions to businesses. One of the products in this line is the one that connects Salesforce.com with Sharepoint. Consider this simple scenario:

The business Situation
The customer and opportunity data resides in Salesforce.com while Sharepoint is [...]

Another step towards Azure Interoperability!

During our presentation at Cloud Expo on Azure, several people asked about being able to execute non .NET code on Azure. While it is still not possible to leverage the Compute platform to execute non-Microsoft languages and environment, Microsoft has taken a few interesting steps in enabling interoperability. Some of these include Azure fabric executing under Full trust and most [...]

Cloud Computing in the Government

We have been working with a few people in the Government space recently about Cloud Computing and invariably the discussion comes around to “What are some of the scenarios in Government that Cloud Computing can help with” – here is a quick take ->
1.    Government Applications Repository ( Private/ Hybrid Clouds )
a.     Create collection of [...]