Northern Web Hosting and IT Consulting Services Are Now in The Cloud
IT Consulting Services relies on Office 365 for secure email (MS Exchange), messaging, file sharing, company portal (SharePoint) and video conferencing. The Northern Web Hosting site and SQL Server data are hosted in Windows Azure and SQL Azure.
When you look at the price point of Office 365 and Azure, you'll find it hard to provide the same level of IT at the same cost. No more endless rounds of hardware and software upgrades.
As a member of the Microsoft Partner Program, Northern Web Hosting can develop a cloud-based IT solution that's right for you.
Secure, anywhere access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps,
instant messaging, conferencing, and file sharing. With Office 365,
you can get your work done securely and communicate real-time
from almost anywhere.
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables
you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a
global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build
applications using any language, tool or framework.
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SQL Azure is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies. With SQL Azure, developers do not have to install, setup or manage any database. High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required. SQL Azure is a managed service that is operated by Microsoft and has a 99.9% monthly SLA
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This data demo uses the SQL Server Adventureworks sample data stored in Northern Web Hosting's SQL Azure database.
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icon to display detail in a modal dialog box. Click the column headings to sort
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SQL Azure is managed using the Windows Azure management portal. Each Azure subscription can contain multiple logical SQL Azure servers. A SQL Azure server is a logical group of databases and acts as a central administrative point for multiple databases. Once your server is created, a read-only master database and a server-level principal login are created automatically.
In each database, you can create tables, views, indices, stored procedures and other database objects. To enable load balancing and high availability, databases associated with your SQL Azure server reside on multiple physical computers in the same geographic region as your server.
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- 700,000 Android Activations Per Day
- 500,000 iPhone Activations Per Day
- 6,800,000 Activations, Christmas 2011
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Why Mobile? If your company isn't mobile, you're missing opportunities. Example: If you're in the hospitality or food and beverage industry, it's likely that your guests are on the road. Are they going to find a mobile version of your site? If you are in an industry where any number of your potential customers are on the road, you need to be mobile. If you sell to a youth market, you need to be mobile. If you've produced TV spots, increase your reach and frequency without buying more air time by putting them on your mobile site.
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Mobile sites and apps need a framework that optimizes content for distribution over wireless networks. Web Apps vs. Native Apps?
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The 51Degrees.mobi Framework solves the problems associated with operating mobile web applications. Advantages:
- Adapts ASP.NET to support all mobile devices
- Enhances CSS3 media queries with server-side control styling
- Improves performance over low bandwidth connections
51Degrees.mobi device data contains information about thousands of different mobile devices and tablets. Advantages:
- Mobile sites are customized to suit individual visitors
- Validates a user's device type before interaction
- Maximum performance with locally stored device data
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