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Five requirements for deploying an application in a public cloud

Thinking about deploying an application in a public cloud? Investigate these five requirements to ensure success.

By Philip Cox • Nov. 24, 2009

An introduction to developing for Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure builds on the Windows platform, allowing users to scale back their necessary development resources and move parts of their infrastructures into the cloud as they see fit.

Aug. 28, 2009

Running a Web service on Google App Engine

Google's App Engine for building Web applications in the cloud is beginning to support Java servlet-based Web services. It's still under development, but you can experiment using Eclipse support or command-line utilities in the SDK.

By William Brogden, Contributor • July 21, 2009

Identifying applications for public and private clouds

Before leaping head first into cloud services, figure which applications are best suited to a public versus private cloud. This article will help you define target apps for the cloud.

By Tom Nolle • June 9, 2009