I have previously posted some of the “raw data” on Six Weeks of Windows Azure but I wanted to also share some thoughts about “how it went” and “how we might do things differently” in the form of a mini retrospective. What went well? Achieved a lot for very little money Our budget was £0. [...] ...read...

I wanted to share some of the “raw data” from Six Weeks of Windows Azure which started way back in January and completed today (29th Feb 2012) I will shortly do a mini-retrospective. Top Level: Web site visits: 23,140 (as of 29th Feb) with 1857 visits on the busiest day Partners involved: 11 (partners...

Note: for me this service has sometimes not worked today (24th Jan). I have reported it to the events team. Next session is Wednesday 10am – Designing for the Cloud. 44WW076 – Six Weeks of Azure – Weekly check-in (AM recording 23.01.2012) “The one where the all internet connectivity vanished...

Now available on SkyDrive. Check out Week1 for slides and “Webinar Notes” for todays notes. We will expand the Notes a little further tomorrow once we go through the Q&A. ...read more

The webinar join links are now live on the website http://sixweeksofazure.wordpress.com/joinwebinar/  We start at 12pm today (Monday 23rd January) but we will have the meeting open during the morning. Hence I would encourage you to join now to check your PC connects fine. See you all at 12pm Eric...

Next Monday we start Six Weeks of Windows Azure with: The 12pm opening session will look ahead at what you can expect from the six weeks and will offer advice on how best to make use of the time. It will also share tips, tools and resources to help you get going from day one. [...] ...read more

Ashwin Raghavan contacted me via this blog about the dissertation he is working on for his MBA and whether I would be able to answer some questions for him. I thought his questions were bang on. I’ll share my answers later … but for now, ponder on these In your view, do you agree with [...] ...read more

Just been checking the stats for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk and we just crossed the 10,000 views mark. Which should mean lots of folks turn up on day one Related Links: Register today for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd and runs for six weeks with webinars and online surgeries every...

A new video series has kicked off over on the Trustworthy Computing blog focused on Cloud Fundamentals. This series is targeted at Chief Security Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, as well as VPs and Directors. If you care about topics such as: Compliance, audit, and certifications Benchmarks...

I posted on App Stores and marketplaces in November to raise awareness amongst UK ISVs of what I think will be a game changer in how consumers and businesses purchase applications for Windows in the future. Since then the Windows … Continue reading → ...read more

The (almost) final agenda is now available and a little context on what still needs to happen can be found in this related post.  It is not too late to sign up – we kick this all off on January … Continue reading → ...read more

ICS Solutions are one of the partners helping us deliver www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd. They also deliver regular free seminars on Windows Azure and the next takes place on February 7th 2012. Mark Hirst (an old friend of mine) … Continue reading → ...read more

I just wanted to give a brief update on www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which starts January 23rd. Preparations to make this into a great six weeks for UK companies are now well progressed and we are nicely on track to have a superb … Continue reading → ...read more

We are keen to get a feel for the current level of awareness and desire around Cloud Computing and specifically the Windows Azure Platform. Hence I have created a short and hopefully very quick to complete survey: Just 10 questions … Continue reading → ...read more

We are very interested to get feedback on what else you would like to see, any tweaks etc. And to be clear – its is most definitely draft and is a subset of what we hope to finally deliver once … Continue reading → ...read more

We have designed Six Weeks of Windows Azure  to ensure a company with no exposure to the Windows Azure Platform or Cloud Computing will get plenty of value by taking part. However, we are also focused on given you options … Continue reading → ...read more

[Previously posted on my team blog] Quick Link: Sign up for FREE help in the UK on exploring and adopting Windows Azure SaaS? Cloud? PaaS? Azure? Help! Do you build applications? Are you thinking about Cloud? Are you wondering about … Continue reading → ...read more

42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything 42 also happens to be the number of days in six weeks. And in six weeks you can do a lot… Find out more (ok – a tiny bit more…) … Continue reading → ...read more

The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, codename “Denali”, will be the last release to support OLE DB. OLE DB will be supported for 7 years from launch, the life of Denali support, to allow you a large window of … Continue reading → ...read more

Do you think in a world of html, cloud, services and startups that the term Independent Software Vendor is still relevant? For (brief) background: From Wikipedia: “Independent software vendor (ISV) is a business term for companies specializing in making or … Continue reading → ...read more

Subsequent to the September 12th workshop (which I previously blogged on ) we will be delivering Workshops every month on the second Tuesday: October 11th November 8th December 13th January 10th These monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform are … Continue reading →

I like it when my work life meets my gaming life and this is one of those moment. The toolkit for social games helps developers take advantage of the scalability of the Windows Azure Platform and includes a sample called … Continue reading →

Bloggers who write about ISV “stuff”. And if you were wondering what an “ISV” is … well, it means “Independent Software Vendor” and will be the subject of a future post UK ISV Team Blog – my teams blog UK … Continue reading →