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There is still time to book on to the free Windows Azure half-day bootcamp running on 4th May at the Microsoft Campus in Reading, England. You can select either morning or afternoon. If you’ve never played with Windows Azure, never written an app, never...

The guys at Microsoft Research are doing some interesting things with parallel programming. It’s not an area I’ve ever had anything to do with, but one can see how the combination of Windows Azure and Dryad offer the novice parallel programmer access...

Some of you may not know there is a capability in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 (cumulative update 4) to monitor Windows Azure services. Among other cloud management technologies, my colleague, Simon May will be talking about this today...

The training kit has been updated for the 1.4 SDK and has new and updated labs added. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en Highlights are: · [New] Authenticating Users in a...

This day is about getting you up to speed on why you should be looking at the Windows Azure Platform, what tools and services it offers and how you can start to explore it to create new solutions, migrate elements of existing solutions or integrate with...

You may know there is a collection of Open Source Software packages ready and waiting to be installed in to Windows Azure. A project which built “accelerators” for popular CMS systems such as Umbraco, Drupal, Wordpress etc has been live and kicking for...

Web Role, Worker Role and VM Role are all designed to solve problems along the continuum of abstraction <==> control that I talked about in a previous post : We call it abstraction because the technology forces a greater separation between the OS...

In concert with my previous post regarding Server App-V , you might be interested to learn about the principles of this sort of technology. There is a session on desktop application virtualization which you can view here . Although this covers the specifics...

With all the pzazz of a Vegas Showgirl, Server App-V was announced at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas last week. Well, OK, Brad Anderson stood there in polo-shirt and chinos to make the announcement but he was as excited as a Vegas...

What goes around, comes around, as they say. There’s very little new: just variations on an existing idea. So it is with Cloud Computing. It seems to me that we are dragging the un-enlightened, kicking and screaming in to the 1950s. You know, that place...