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Gartner has issued on 13/01/10 a press release with its key predictions for 2010 and beyond. An interesting one is: By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT...

Always wanted to know how hotmail is structured and how the architecture is looking. Here is your chance! Most interesting is to learn is how the non functionals are handled. A small extract: Hotmail is a gigantic service in all dimensions. Here are...

An interesting read. Near the end of December, I created a survey with a single question: "Which companies do you think have done the best job of driving growth through disruption — transforming what exists or creating what doesn't through simplicity...

BI with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Office System 2010 We will examine an end-to-end approach to building and delivering a BI solution using the Microsoft BI platform. We will focus on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Office...

This week, new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit has been released . This is a downloadable version of our training content and includes 17 presentations, 21 Demos and 26 Hands-on Labs. The January preview adds content for Office...

This one slipped under my radar… Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very...

Brian H. Prince meets with Stephen Griffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF . It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement...

Quality of an architecture is defined by the weakest link within the whole set of artifacts created as part of an architectural exercise. Documentation is definitely one of those areas susceptible to negligence and as such impacting overall quality of...

MSDN subscribers can get started developing on the Windows Azure platform today . Starting January 4, 2010, subscribers in many countries will benefit from compute hours, storage, data transfers, SQL Azure databases and Windows Azure platform AppFabric...

Today marks an important step towards our goal of enabling you, our customers and partners, to build and grow your businesses on the Windows Azure platform. We are pleased to announce that starting today you can upgrade your Community Technology Preview...

A new episode is available touching the S+S architecture model. You've no doubt heard by now a lot about software plus services as an architectural concept, but how many real world examples can you say you've seen? On this episode of ARCast, Denny...