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Getting the clouds to rain (add value)

October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Services, Technology

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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Head in the clouds

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Services, Technology

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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