In this blog, 10th Magnitude's CEO Alex Brown discusses the age of cloud adoption. Companies of all sizes are migrating to be faster, more agile, more cost efficient, more impactful and more dynamic. He defines four categories of companies - the Classic, the Found, the Enabled and the Ostrich - and how software has provided them with a competitive advantage (or not).
Today, organizations of all sizes are interested in a technology model that fully embraces the transformational promise of the cloud. But if they approach cloud migration the wrong way, they [...]
IT organizations spend a lot of time trying to eliminate single points of failure in their systems. Equally problematic is the “single person of failure” problem, which can have consequences [...]
Over the summer, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be the last version of the Windows OS. Not that it will be the end of the OS, but it will [...]
Relational database-as-a-service is one of Microsoft Azure’s biggest differentiators when compared to other public cloud vendors. There are many PaaS database options available in the market today, but no other [...]
So here’s a question: What do 10th Magnitude, Microsoft and the Chicago Blackhawks have in common? Well, if you think in hockey terms (which I do often—just ask my hockey-tortured [...]
In my last blog post, I talked about Azure Event Hubs and Stream Analytics and how they enable real-time workflow triggering and alerts for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This [...]
For development teams, it’s critical to gain insight into how well an application is working and to be able to troubleshoot problems when they occur. Many organizations currently rely on [...]
If you want to get started with real-time analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) today, there are two key capabilities you need: the ability to ingest data from your [...]
Of all the new Azure analytics goodies that Microsoft unveiled at its Build 2015 developer conference, the Azure Data Lake service is among those that I’m especially excited about. In [...]
Working with Microsoft Azure is like walking on a moving sidewalk in an airport: you are walking at the same speed as other travellers, but you reach your gate twice [...]
Let me say it now: There is no event quite like ChefConf. And I would know—I’ve been to a few tech conferences and am a regular at comic conventions. ChefConf [...]
As promised in my last blog post on the Chef and Azure partnership, below is a preview of "The Chef Prince of Azure" music video that will be kicking off [...]
I was super excited to see the announcement yesterday that Chef and Microsoft Azure have announced an official partnership. It’s like watching your two best friends get together; you just [...]
My team’s past 48 hours were spent in our little personal branch of hell, the one you get sent to when your application crashes for an unknown reason without any [...]
