Architects Rule!

An interesting article based upon facts when it comes to cloud security versus on premise security of data. The article provides a bit more insights in the different security breaches found within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The report...

As mentioned in a previous post, Software Architects are recognized as one of the best positions in United States. But what is their actual role when it comes to Applications and System Development? An interesting article published on executivebrief.com...

CNN Money together with Payscale.com has conducted a study within the Unites States of the different job positions. Different criteria were used such as Personal Satisfaction, Job Security, Future Growth etc. The position of Software Architect came out...

The Interoperability Team at Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update to the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse and is shipping a new Community Technology Preview (October 2010 CTP) of the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP. This Eclipse...

For the third year in a row the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE vzw), Microsoft and our partners are teaming up to organize the yearly Belgian SQL Server Day . This year SQL Server Day 2010 will focus on SQL Server, SQL Azure and Microsoft Business...

For the enterprise architects amongst us. Is EA valuable for deciding what products or services a company should offer? According to a blog post by Nick Malik, part of the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture team, it does have value: “First off, Enterprise...

An interesting article from the Burton Group, when it comes to cloud providers. The article states that the cloud providers do not include network services or user performance in their SLA’s while these are considered to be valuable assets towards the...

Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is the worst outage we’ve had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it. We also wanted to provide much more technical detail on what...