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From the article… A $20 million deal between the Bloomberg administration and the Redmond, Wash., computing giant announced Wednesday that it will consolidate software and hardware operated by individual agencies onto Internet-based computer “clouds.” They allow software, documents and other data normally...

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This third lecture covers all the various cloud storage potions, what is provided by the top cloud vendors and then uses Windows Azure to demonstrate...

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This second lecture introduces distributed computing concepts and a set of application architecture patterns that are popular with cloud based solutions...

David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background, definitions of Infrastructure as a Service,...

David Rousset , has written a terrific 4 part article on using Silverlight, XNA on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure to create a full features game level editor. The interesting parts fro me are David’s architectural approach to combining Silverlight on the desktop, Windows Azure for cloud storage and...

Here are this weeks headlines from Innovation Showcase . Lots of news on Office and SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure. Programming Microsoft Office 2010: Getting Started with Office 2010 Solutions The IE6–IE8 Technet Webcast Upgrade Series Prism Updated for Silverlight 4 Patterns...

Microsoft “Many Screens and a Cloud” June 15, 2010 – Microsoft Northeast District Office, 201 Jones Road, Sixth Floor, Waltham MA 02451 The Healthcare landscape is dramatically changing. Economic pressures, reform legislation, stimulus funding, and medical/technology advancements are a creating a perfect...

Innovation Showcase headlines 06.01.2010 – Stay on top of the latest news, views and technology updates. This weeks articles focus on Windows Azure, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, Windows 7, Windows Phone and developer and architect community news. ARCast.TV - SOASTA...

The editorial staff over at Innovation Showcase have been busy this week compiling the top stories for developers and architects. Check out the news on Silverlight, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Office, 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7. High-Quality Touchscreens for your Windows...

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines   Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers Web Application Publisher Combines Data Across Clouds Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP For Visual Studio 2010 RTM Financial Institutions See Benefits of Windows 7 Microsoft: We are “All...

Here are this weeks Innovation Showcase headlines.  Lots of product announcements this week such as PowerPivot, SQL Server Express 2008 R2, Enterprise Library 5.0 and SharePoint Designer 2010. There is also a great ARCast.TV episode with the folks at Outerlink who have created a high value asset...

Here are the top stories from Innovation Showcase this week… Windows Phone 7, Silverlight Are Business-ready Ford, Microsoft team up on electric-car system Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Released ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration What's new in C# 4 Windows Azure...

This weeks headlines include a great story about CSC and how they are leveraging Windows Azure for their next generation Legal Solution Suite and a terrific ARCast episode by Dr. Zhiming Xue on the use of WCF Services when doing SharePoint development. USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech...

  What is the Azure™ Services Platform? It is an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. It reduces the need for up-front technology purchases, and it enables...

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines features articles on Outerlink, Partners Health Care, a ton of Windows Phone 7 information and this weeks ARCast.TV episode features a tour of an Azure server container. Explore Windows 7 Sensor Capabilities with Parallax Intro Kit Visual Studio 2010 RC Virtual...

Here are this weeks headlines from Innovation Showcase . A Multi-Touch Open Source Project for Windows 7 Developers 3M Ports Library Software to Windows 7 and Realizes Improved Performance and Usability Microsoft Architecture Webcast Series Microsoft Redoes Phone Software A Pragmatic Hybrid Approach...

Here is a summary of this weeks Innovations Showcase Headlines ARCast.TV - Scalable Tax Solutions With CCH and Windows Azure The Danger in Relying on the Electric Utility Model for the Cloud Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises Patterns for Parallel Programming Released LG's Windows Phone 7 Series...

Some very cool topics are covered on Innovation Showcase this week including: Bing Maps Augmented Reality (a must see!), what’s new in Windows 7 Phone, an eye opening ARCast.TV episode featuring a Silverlight application that displays medial history, a Visual Studio 2010 Resource Guide from Chris Bowen...

  This weeks Innovation Showcase headlines include stories on the new Windows Phone 7 Series, Federated Search, Windows Azure, VS2010 and EasySubmit an Office Online feature powered by Monster.com. Windows 7 Federated Search - A Developer's Perspective Free Windows Azure Access for Scientists Confused...

ARCast.TV - Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure How do you meet the unknown scalability requirements for viral social networking Facebook applications? Thuzi is a Microsoft partner who has created a framework for delivering viral social networking campaigns via Facebook using Windows...

Here are the Innovation Showcase Headlines for this week. Great content on SharePoint 2010 , Visual Studio 2010 , Silverlight 4 , Windows7 and Windows Azure . Bring Combined Search Experience to Windows 7 Users Understanding XP Mode in Windows 7 Windows XP Mode: What it takes to uninstall it and to delete...

Innovation Showcase Headlines 01/26/2010   Microsoft, Google Debate Cloud Future Make better sense of your spending and saving decisions ARCast.TV Special - Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects ARCast.TV - An Overview...

Here are the latest headlines from the Innovation Showcase   Want to host video on your blog from Windows Azure? Pick your Windows Azure Operating System version! Windows Azure Goes Live in January ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuring Tim Heuer Connecting PHP...

This weeks Innovation Showcase headlines feature articles on migrating .NET applications to Windows Azure, accessing the microphone and camera using Silverlight 4, updates on the latest VS2010 training kits and virtual images, an invitation to the next Architect Cafe Webcast, the latest ARCast.TV episode...

Windows Azure provides scalable, available, and durable structured storage in the form of tables, blobs and queues. The tables contain entities, and the entities contain properties. The tables are scalable to billions of entities and terabytes of data, and may be partitioned across thousands of servers...