In this blog post, we’re going to talk about how to write a Windows 8 application which consumes Windows Azure Service Management REST API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799.aspx). Unlike my other post on Windows 8 and Windows Azure Mobile Service, I’ll try to be less … [Read more...]
Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API in a Windows 8 Application
September 8, 2012 by 3 Comments
Simple Calculator for Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Pricing
September 3, 2012 by 17 Comments
UPDATE - 06-DECEMBER-2012 I originally wrote this post in September 2012. Recently at their re:Invent event, Amazon announced reduction in their storage prices by 24-28% (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/amazon-s3-price-reduction-december-1-2012.html). Yesterday Microsoft announced similar price … [Read more...]
How I Built an “Awesome Chat” application for Windows 8 with Windows Azure Mobile Service
August 30, 2012 by 25 Comments
In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how I built a Windows 8 application using Windows Azure Mobile Service. Windows Azure Mobile Service is the newest Windows Azure Services that you can use to provide backend services for your mobile applications (currently Windows 8, more coming soon). You … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story – Marketing
August 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
In the previous post about Cloud Storage Studio, I walked you through our experience about building a product and making it commercially available. Now we were left with a gigantic task – How to market the product? In this post I will talk about what all things we did for marketing our products … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio
August 21, 2012 by 3 Comments
In the last post about our Cloud Storage Studio/e product, I mentioned how we stopped working on that product in favor of a desktop based product. In this blog post, I will write some details about building a product which turned out to be the flagship product for Cerebrata – Cloud Storage … [Read more...]
Cerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio/e
July 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the last post about Cerebrata, I spoke about our first product Omega.SDSClient and how in a period of 4 months that product completed it’s lifecyle. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/06/05/cerebrata-story-omega-sdsclient/. In the post, I will continue from where we … [Read more...]
Works With Me or Works For Me?
July 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
Question: If you’re a supervisor (read Boss), how do you describe your your relationship with your subordinates: Is it “They Work With Me” or is it “They Work For Me”? Also if you’re the subordinate, “Do You Work With Your Boss” or “Do You Work For Your Boss”? I’ve come across these two phrases … [Read more...]
How to move Windows Azure Virtual Machines from one Subscription to another
July 4, 2012 by 21 Comments
Quite recently I was helping somebody out on MSDN forums with a question about Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS). One thing that came up on that thread is how would one move their VMs from one subscription to another. There could be many reasons as to why one would want to do this. One possible … [Read more...]
How to Copy a Bucket from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob”
June 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about how you can copy an object (file) from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using improved “Copy Blob” functionality. You can read that post here: … [Read more...]
How To Copy an Object from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob”
June 14, 2012 by 13 Comments
Yesterday I wrote a blog post summarizing updates done to Windows Azure Storage. You can read that blog post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/06/13/updates-to-windows-azure-storagesummary-of-new-features/. One of the significant improvement done is with “Copy Blob” function. While preparing … [Read more...]