A recent study from London School of Economics (LSE) says Cloud Computing could be key to global economic growth. History almost always proved that increase in productivity creates more jobs and helps grow the economy. So what LSE says makes a lot...

For some very simple tips on migrating your apps to Azure, you can visit http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2012/01/29/tips-and-important-steps-for-migrating-apps-to-windows-azure.aspx

After a few years of break I decided to blog again. Well, let's see how it goes this time. BizSpark Plus, an extension of the BizSpark program, provides higher value offers to startup accelerators around the globe. How cool is that? For more information...

I'm pretty sure most of you are aware that you can build InfoPath forms to be hosted at MOSS as web-enabled forms. This is possible using the InfoPath Forms Services in MOSS. If you ever tried using this type of forms you’ll realize that you will have...

One of our customers in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) was curious about the change in performance characteristics of SharePoint Servers when used with huge files (around 100 MB). They were currently allowing up to 20 MB and before allowing more...

With the introduction of OLAP Services in version 7.0, BI features have always been a critical part of SQL Server. From a high level view the SQL Server BI offering is a complete and integrated offering with widespread delivery of business intelligence...

Nowadays I deal with some SQL Server consolidation engagements. Many customers have hundreds of SQL Server instances with many different versions (7.0, 2000 SPx, 2005 SPx) and they have some difficulties managing these due to the over-distribution fact...

Today I had some time to have a look at Unity Application Block ( http://www.codeplex.com/unity ) and I'll share my first impression about it. What Unity does is simply help you manage cross cutting concerns in your application. For those of you who...