Craig’s Musings

This is a community service announcement.
Since I took the time to crack the download syntax for the PowerPoint decks presented this week at PDC, I thought I’d make my work publicly available. Here it is (i.e. sessions listed in alphabetically order with the session titles copied from the original master session list posted [...]

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Certainly the vision of Windows Azure (aka “Red Dog”) and the Azure Services Platform is substantial. However, in order for Microsoft, its partners and customers to realize it, it must deliver business value.
Internal or external, cloud computing has to address a set of real business problems in order to become a relevant part of one’s [...]

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It appears that a majority of what I plan to attend at this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is focused on cloud computing. Today, for example, I plan to attend the following sessions:

Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
A Lap around Windows Azure
“Dublin” and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to [...]

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Continuing from the first half of my day two notes…
Steve Santini (internal EMC link), CTO, Bank of America Securities spoke next as the day’s featured guest speaker. Steve shared his perspective on how how Bank of America (BofA), as a very large company, organizes itself for successful innovation; the bank’s vision for the future of [...]

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Continuing from the good start on day 1 (10/21/2008), the second and final day of the conference (10/22/2008) began with a world tour of EMC’s Centers of Excellence in China, India, Russia and Ireland. It was great to see a large remote gathering at each site via live video feed. The leadership of each center [...]

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