Application development and QA, IT ops testing, training and demo environments are typically underutilized and difficult for IT operations to maintain. Find out how and why companies are moving test and development to the cloud and what to look for along the way. This topic covers test labs in the cloud, virtual lab management, Skytap and Surgient.
Intuit muscles into the Platform as a Service game
SearchCloudComputing.com | 28 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - The financial software powerhouse aims to transform its QuickBooks success into a desktop App Store for its huge SMB base.
Platform as a Service speeds time to market of iPhone app startup
SearchCloudComputing.com | 27 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - With Platform as a Service, application development startup FlightCaster used Heroku's Ruby to deploy its flight delay-predicting iPhone app in four months.
Code sample illustrates how to write Azure applications for the cloud
Submitted By: SearchCloudComputing.com | 11 Mar 2009 TIP - In a series of blog entries on MSDN, Microsoft's Maor David-Pur has given developers a concrete, step-by-step Azure tutorial geared to experienced ASP.NET developers.
Introduction to Windows Azure for developers
15 Dec 2008 TIP - Learn what Azure really is, how it's put together and what that means for you as you build, test and maintain software as a service using the Azure framework.
The risks and rewards behind developing in Azure
SearchCloudComputing.com | 28 Aug 2009 TUTORIAL - Discover several situations where Microsoft Azure would be a beneficial cloud computing solution, along with the major risks Azure adopters need to understand.
Comparing Microsoft Azure's pricing policies
SearchCloudComputing.com | 28 Aug 2009 TUTORIAL - Microsoft's reluctance to release Azure pricing details made users wary, and the numbers it finally released come up short against Google App Engine in several ways.
Azure tools for cloud-based development
SearchCloudComputing.com | 28 Aug 2009 TUTORIAL - Before working with Microsoft Azure, it's good to get familiarized with its components and software development kits.
The benefits of cloud computing for software development Published by: SearchCloudComputing.com | 10 Nov 2008 PODCAST - In this interview, Craig Balding discusses the general benefits of cloud computing for software development.
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