Communications and Clouds

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  I will be speaking at the Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA on November 2 from 2:25 to 3:10.  If you will be in attendance and would like to speak with me about Telecommunications and /or Cloud Computing please let me know.  My abstract is...

  I will be speaking at the Broadband World Forum in Paris on October 28th.  If you will be in attendance and would like to speak with me about Telecommunications and /or Cloud Computing please let me know.  My abstracts are: 12:30 Microsoft...

  I will be giving a couple of talks at Interop in New York City on October 20 and October 21.  Please let me know if you will be attending the conference and feel like talking about the cloud.  My abstracts are as follows: Wednesday, October...

Today I want to talk to you about the cloud, about developing on the Windows platform, and about how the new Rackspace Cloud Visual Studio 2010 Plug-In seamlessly ties these together. But before I get to that, let me spend a few minutes reflecting on...

I participated in the IMS 2.0 World Forum keynote panel this morning.  The topic was how to achieve IMS Globalization.  In preparation for the discussion we were asked to give thought to a number of questions that needed to be addressed. ...

One of the things that I thought about extensively over the last couple of weeks is that each of the primary applications/services (loosely defined) provided by companies in telecommunications and media and entertainment industries are being radically...

Since the WAVES project I have been focusing on another CaaS project with Ribbit - ‘ Ribbit for Windows 7 .’ The solution is an excellent example of Software + Services applied to the telecommunications industry: a rich Windows 7 client experience using...

I spent a good amount of time in November and December focusing on the WAVES solution that was demonstrated at the TMForum’s Management Americas show.  WAVES is a multi-industry effort to develop a reference architecture allowing a consumer to access...

Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) was a collaborative project between Microsoft and BT’s Ribbit subsidiary.  I mention R4SL below at the Ribbit Spawn event.   R4SL is a set of drag/drop Silverlight controls that make it easy for Designers/Developers...

As companies become more cost conscious they are seeing large savings from ‘Over the Top’ communications providers.  These multi-tenant “cloud” platforms open markets to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) that can’t afford to purchase expensive...

Over the last year, I had the pleasure of working with a talented group of technologists at the AP to assist in their Azure adoption.  The AP implemented a solution to open up a highly scalable application programming interface (API) that developers...

Last November, Jamie Adler and Matt Cochran of IntelePeer and their ReachLive application was highlighted in the ‘ Faces of .NET ’ campaign for their use of Microsoft technologies.  Faces of .NET highlights the personalities behind the applications...

The January issue of Xchange Magazine, a telecommunications industry publication, presents a number of articles on cloud computing for the telecommunications industry.  Since no other industry faces as profound transformation from cloud computing...

I will be doing a cloud-computing webcast on November 25.  The abstract and registration link are below. November 25, 2009, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Title: Cloud-computing architecture – designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure. Speaker...

I will be on the Cloud Providers panel at the Harvard Business School Cybersymposium on Saturday, November 21.  This panel will explore the benefits and obstacles of cloud computing as seen through the eyes of cloud providers. While many companies...

Ribbit, a subsidiary of British Telecom, has been working with Microsoft on a project called Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL).  R4SL is a set of drag/drop Silverlight controls that make it easy for Designers/Developers to create communications enabled...

SUPERCOMM 2009 is at McCormick Place in Chicago From October 21 to October 23 2009.  I will be presenting at the Building Broadband Business pre-show summit on October 20.   The title of my presentation is Programmable Communications -...

Over the last couple of weeks both the mainstream media and  industry-specific publications are raising the awareness of Communications as a Service.  Back in April I did a presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Telecom2009...

This interview from the Internet Telephony Conference has been posted on TMCnet CaaS community site .  In this interview with Charles Studt, VP of Product Management and Marketing from IntelePeer, and me we discuss SaaS/CaaS and Cloud Computing and...

Travis Brown and Gary Sidhu from Qwest Communications and I have written a whitepaper on the benefits of using the Visual Studio DSL toolkit for a software system that activates IP VPNs for a telecommunications network service provider. The whitepaper...

Last month I sat on a SaaS panel during the Internet Telephony conference in Los Angeles.  The panel began with opening statements from the speakers, and much to my surprise the first speaker went into a diatribe on the notion of SaaS as a concept...

There was an interesting article on CNET News on September 12, 2008 describing a forum on cloud computing hosted by Google.  The article provides a series of quotes from members of the panel. Notable comments from Mike Nelson, a visiting professor...

SOA Telecom Architect , an on-line publication focused on service oriented telecommunications software, published this press release on the panel that I will be part of discussing SaaS (and CaaS).  Also participating in this panel are representatives...

I will be on a SaaS panel at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo in Los Angeles on 9/17/2008 (details below).  If you're attending the conference and interested in chatting about SaaS/CaaS/S+S/Design Patterns/.NET/Baseball/Bicycling/Jazz/or...