A l’occasion de la conférence PDC 2008, Microsoft vient de dévoiler son offre pour les nuages: Azure Services Platform . Voici quelques mois que les rumeurs allaient bon train, et nous ne sommes pas en reste : la plate-forme est à la hauteur. Voyons plutôt...

Justin Smith talks, he is the program manager for this offer. This offering is part of the Identity Software + Services initiatives which encompasses a large number of offerings at Microsoft : Microsoft Services Connector, Geneva Server, Geneva framework...

Erick Smith, Development Manager, Fabric Controller and Chuck (architect in the team). The Fabric Controller What it is to deploy a service manually : resource allocation, provisioning, upgrades, maintain service health. The Fabric Controller takes...

Michael Conrad speaks. Live Meeting is enterprise class web conferencing solution for online meetings training and events. Supports real time communication with a few to thousands attendees. LiveMeeting architecture Custom infrastructure ...

A few observations Devices : diversity on the rise and my computer => my mesh Data : are everywhere (in cloud and on devices), and often shared Applications : span devices and are getting social People : an integral part of our digital...

Yousef A. Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer Windows Azure presents. Main Takeaways Cloud Services have specific design considerations : always on, distributed state, large scale, failure handling (you should expect failures and you should handle...

Yesterday, we talked about services, we introduced Azure, hosted new opportunities to extend enterprise solutions. Today, we’ll talk about the front end, the OS. It is no more about the PC, it is the PC and the Mobile + the Web. Today, it became difficult...

Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud by Jacob Avital. Principles : You create an application, make it cloud aware or host it in the clouds, and leverage the .Net Services. What are the .Net Services ? The .Net Services provide the...

Caleb Baker, Stuart Kwan (Group Program Manager for Identity) present : See how to use "Geneva" and the claims-based identity model to enable single sign-on, strong authentication, federation, and the ability to flow user authentication between...

Manuvir Das presents, a bit stressed since Windows Azure launches in a hour : www.azure.com and click sign in (it works on a first come, first served basis). What is the Cloud ? A set of connected servers on which developers can install and run...

Ray Ozzie : “I have been waiting for this day for long. Today marks the transformation of our software and model to fundamentally embrace services.” There’s never been as many choices for back-end entreprise platforms. The three things that have always...

J’ai rédigé récemment un article pour ITExpertise qui aborde le thème du Cloud Computing sous l’angle du SI . Je vous en livre ci-après l’introduction sachant que la procédure de téléchargement consiste à : Demander un accès gratuit à partir du...