Robert Sheldon Deleting Files in the Cloud The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea... 23 September 2014 15 min read
Edward Elliott Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but... 22 September 2014 20 min read
Robert Sheldon The Community Cloud The 'Community Cloud' sounds, on first impression, like marketing-speak for some untried novelty, but in fact it is already around,... 27 August 2014 15 min read
Jaap Wesselius Office 365 Essentials – Subscriptions and Licenses Should you be planning to move from Exchange to Office 365? If so, why? What sort of license should you... 08 August 2014 10 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Distributed File Databases Distributed File Databases manage large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data. They are designed on the principle of splitting up... 21 March 2014 15 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Key/Value Pair Systems Though the Key/Value pair paradigm is common to almost every computer language, there is no clear agreement yet for the... 17 July 2013 17 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Relational Database Management Systems There is no better way of understanding new data processing, retrieval, analysis or visualising techniques than actually trying things out... 14 June 2013 19 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Programming and Scripting Languages Although every computer language is suitable for data, some languages lend themselves especially well for working with certain types or... 16 April 2013 18 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Interactive Data Tools Data tools interact directly with data and are great for automating data data-aquisition, but they aren't always the best way... 18 March 2013 15 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Instrumentation It is sensible to check the performance of different solutions to data analysis in 'lab' conditions. Measurement by instrumentation makes... 18 February 2013 18 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Testing the Text Tools and Sample Data Anyone who is frequently faced with preparing data for processing needs to be familiar with some industry-standard text-manipulation tools. Awk,... 15 January 2013 18 min read
Ming Lee Amazon Web Services and managing our EBS volumes effectively With Amazon Web Services, you might find that a large Amazon Machine Image (AMI) as with over 1 TB, taken... 19 September 2012 8 min read
A Cloudy Place SQL Monitor Hosted: keeping an eye on your servers from the cloud Simple-Talk's Melanie Townsend sits down with Red Gate's Matt Lee to talk about their newest adventure in cloud-based monitoring for... 12 September 2012 9 min read
Buck Woody Distributed Computing – Hybrid Systems Considerations When the Cloud was new, it was often presented as an 'all or nothing' solution. Nowadays, the canny Systems Architect... 11 July 2012 16 min read
Shameer Introduction to Route 53 AWS's DNS service, called Route 53, is a reliable and cost effective service for managing your domain. It has a... 28 June 2012 6 min read
Richard Mitchell 3 tips for SQL Azure connection perfection One of my main annoyances when dealing with SQL Azure is of course the occasional connection problems that communicating to... 31 May 2012 4 min read
Bud Aaron How to set up a database-driven Azure site So how easy is it to set up a database-driven application on Azure, using the tools that one is familar... 26 April 2012 12 min read
Buck Woody Big Data is Just a Fad The Term 'Big Data' is nothing more than a fad, and we'll soon be cringing with embarrassment at the thought... 13 April 2012 12 min read
A Cloudy Place Engine Testing Using EC2 Jeff Foster, a Software Engineer on Red Gate's SQL Source Control product, has recently begun investigating the use of Amazon's... 12 April 2012 6 min read
Shameer Introduction to OpenStack OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform based on Linux. It aims to allow organisations to run cloud services on standard... 10 April 2012 6 min read
