Secure, Stable, Accessible

Cloud data solutions you can depend on

Cloud Storage

By integrating Amazon S3 for static archives and documents, you have unlimited secure storage facility.
Cloud Data Center

Managed by Microsoft directly, SQL Azure is simply the most stable and secure option available
Cloud Data API

3rd party data access tools enable us to leverage all cloud services without developing dependancies

Amazon’s Route53 DNS Service
Today, ZoneEdit, who I’ve been using for 11years, failed me once again. Even with 4 nameservers, it was the web-forward gadget that blew, cutting off a lot of business. The client had a fit and I had to find something more reliable.
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Streaming Video Using CloudFront
Posting a video on your website is quite simple, but “Streaming” a video is not as easy as you might expect. There are a variety of services, such as YouTube, that do this for you, but they are not exactly what you want on your professional website. Beyond that, it can really slam your site to have a large video get downloaded by a lot of people.
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Securing documents with ASP.net handlers

A client had been posting training files and some order templates in an unmarked directory on their website. None of them are really all that secret, but some contact lists and other things got picked up by google.
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Executing Asynchronous Functions from ASP.NET

Don’t make your users wait unnecessarily. For example, a page where you generate a PDF and send it to someone else. Hand the job off to an asynchronous process and move on.
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Microsoft XPath problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML

This isn’t directly just with Amazon, but it is a problem we ran into when working with a VB application using Amazon’s Route 53 DNS Service.
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