Craig’s Musings

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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First of all, I echo what Mark posted about the refreshment that comes from talking with people face-to-face that I typically communicate with less personally (e.g. IM, email, wiki, blog, etc.).
Being at the conference in person also allowed me to meet several folks for the first time.
Right before lunch, I spent some time talking with [...]

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This has been a light blogging month thus far; however, I suspect this is about to change due to the following events I’ll be traveling to during the rest of October:

EMC’s 2nd annual Innovation Conference (e.g. sample coverage of last year’s inaugural event: [1], [2], [3])
A follow-on EMC summit on next-generation collaboration
Microsoft PDC

I’ll do my [...]

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