Craig’s Musings

On Monday EMC announced Atmos. While I was in flight, returning from a short vacation, a number of my EMC colleagues blogged about this new offering. I’d like to draw your attention to their posts as follows:

Steve Todd first offers, among other things, a concise definition of Cloud Optimized Storage (COS): “global storage with a [...]

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During the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler’s leadership on both operating systems.)
I think there is much to draw from this comparison where [...]

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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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I finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software…
Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas [...]

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