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When we are planning for this year's Hosting Summit in early Fall of 2009, I had a bold idea to invite Bob Muglia, President of Microsoft's Server & Tools business to speak at the event. This is the first time we have had an executive of Bob's level...

As of today following new features are available within SQL Azure: 1. SQL Azure Database size - We are expanding SQL Azure to support up to 50GB per database. With this update, SQL Azure now supports up to 5GB in the Web Edition, and up to 50GB in the...

Just a quick note on the recent Google announcement about dumping Windows for desktops in favor of Linux and Mac OS X. As you can see from the linked article, there is a lot of hype about this move in the press. Unfortunately, dumping Windows as a risk...

Bruce Hart is the Chief Operating Officer of Terremark Federal Group which provides government agencies with a complete suite of managed infrastructure services for mission-critical federal applications, including cloud computing, colocation, network...

Computer screens in laptops, desktops and phones are now the targets for application developers yet they represent challenges as the resolution, size, among other factors. In this episode , Director of User Experience at Infragistics Dr. Komischke ...

In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age – and where it's taking us. A funny thing happened...

An excellent article about Windows Azure can be found at http://arstechnica.com .   Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform has been gaining steam since its launch to paying customers in February. Just last week it reached 10,000 customers...

Upon reading the The Rugged Software Manifesto , I decided to summarize my thoughts on what good software should and should not do. In the spirit of “keep it simple, stupid,” I’ve somewhat condensed the 10-item manifesto to three: The software should...

IT and business leaders alike express frustration with their inability to achieve the full potential of IT strategy. A recent CIO Executive Board survey found that less than 23% of IT's business partners rate IT’s strategy and planning as being effective...

We have just updated the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to synchronize with a number of product and technology releases.  An installer is available today to start using.  Here is what’s new: New Analytics Service Support EQATEC Analytics...

A.D.A.M. www.adam.com , a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to 500+ Hospitals in the US, was looking to use cloud computing to revolutionize its business.  In September 2009, they developed an H1N1...

For many years, IT management has preached standardization -- within IT and across the corporation. Yet at the same time, we have largely failed to standardize IT skills within our own organizations or across the industry. Certifications can help there...

Just over a month ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a memo to a few key execs inside the company, asking them when Microsoft was going to be “all in” with the cloud and moving its own, internally-developed apps there. What did one of those e-mail...

Microsoft now has more than 10,000 customers (each with an unspecified number of users) using its Windows Azure cloud environment. That new milestone was mentioned by Doug Hauger, General Manager of Windows Azure, during his appearance on June 3 at the...

Today at the TechEd North America conference Bob Muglia made several announcements about the Windows Azure Platform during his keynote.  I wanted to make sure you are aware of these announcements and some new resources to help you drive evangelism...

The 20km of Brussels was held on the 30 th May 2010, 10 Microsoft employees participated in the race but there was also another Microsoft participant, Microsoft Azure. Chronorace, the company behind the logistics of the race, typically experiences huge...

When you're one of the busiest pizza companies in the world, how do you scale your web site to meet regular and irregular demand? You move it to the Cloud, of course! In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jim Vitek and discusses Domino...

In previous columns, I've touched on the idea of tapping a Microsoft enterprise architect to help make the most of your existing infrastructure [1]. But to get a better sense of what that process entails, I thought it best to present you with an inside...

In the continued commitment to our users - .NET enterprise developers, we are releasing a fully updated set of hands-on labs today. These are built by developers for developers! The set includes exercises for all application blocks as well as Unity, Interception...

Abstract : Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. Cloud computing is attractive to business owners as it eliminates the requirement for users to plan ahead for provisioning, and allows...

Can Market Forces Redefine the Meaning of EA? Zachman wrote “ This is what is killing Enterprise Architecture ” and Sunil starter a discussion on it in Linked iCMG group. The result – 637 comments and counting. It is a lively discussion and could not...