David Gristwood's Blog
Azure, Azure, Azure
Our technical team run regular Azure workshops and briefings for software companies looking to...
Date: 12/04/2017
Last week our team hosted 15 software companies at our Reading offices for one of our new “Design...
Date: 11/30/2017
Our technical team have been out and about across the UK meeting with software companies, talking...
Date: 09/18/2017
Your Journey to the Microsoft Azure Cloud - A Briefing for Software Solution Businesses - Roadshow...
Date: 08/25/2017
Our Microsoft UK One Commercial Partner team plan to run a new series of “code with“ hacks over the...
Date: 08/24/2017
If you are a fan of the BBC TV series Dragon’s Den, then you may remember PitPat, who featured in...
Date: 08/17/2017
If you are reading this, then you are probably someone with a Microsoft Windows background, who has...
Date: 08/04/2017
Our Microsoft team are back out on the road in the UK this summer talking techie about all things...
Date: 08/01/2017
A while back Amy Nicholson and I kicked off TechDays Online with our session “Data, data, data – How...
Date: 04/07/2017
Come and join me on 20th, 21st and 22 February for the first Microsoft MVP led TechDays Online of...
Date: 02/09/2017
For our Band on the Run IoT project for the Microsoft Band, we use Azure IoT Hub as the ingestion...
Date: 04/12/2016
Hot on the heels of our session at the Wearable technology Show 2016 #wts2016, we decided to sort...
Date: 03/24/2016
If you want to see Band on the Run being demonstrated live, then come along to the Wearable...
Date: 03/07/2016
When Pete and I started building our “Band on the Run” project, we used Azure Event Hubs as the...
Date: 02/26/2016
For the last 6 months or so, since the first version of the Microsoft Band shipped, Peter Daukintis...
Date: 02/25/2016
Time to update my bio: David Gristwood works as technical evangelist at Microsoft in the UK where he...
Date: 02/22/2016
Back in July 2013, the “Orleans” team announced a small early adopter program, then at Build 2014...
Date: 12/12/2014
Earlier this year I, along with other members of the Microsoft TED team and the UK Microsoft...
Date: 11/05/2014
Back in July 2013, I announced on my blog “Orleans”, Windows Azure and Halo 4” that the Orleans team...
Date: 04/03/2014
Part two of Ewan’s IoT series is now live, and focuses on the all important topic of data – check it...
Date: 03/25/2014
I will be presenting at the Cloud Gaming Summit, a two-day free event that ukie in association with...
Date: 03/24/2014
My colleague Ewan has started posting about the “Internet of Things”, a topic that he and I, and...
Date: 03/18/2014
My colleagues Hoop Somuah and Sergey Bykov have released a new video, first shown in one of...
Date: 07/25/2013
Windows Azure as a Cloud Gaming Platform – half day technical briefing, Monday 1st July, 2pm, London...
Date: 06/03/2013
Interested in exploring how Windows Azure and cloud computing could be used in designing and developing computer games?
If so, why not visit one of our technical briefings? These one day technical briefings on the...
Date: 04/19/2013
The Big Data Hackathon takes places at the Hub Westminster, 80 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4TE, on the...
Date: 03/21/2013
Our team still get lots of questions from customers and partners about “SQL Azure” (aka “Windows...
Date: 03/19/2013
It's always a pleasure to converse with my old friend and colleague, David Chappell...
Date: 11/19/2012
Learn more about how Windows Azure has helped companies realize the true value of the cloud. ...
Date: 11/02/2012
Windows Azure Media Services in an exciting new platform that offers the flexibility,...
Date: 11/02/2012
Video delivery is consuming an ever larger percentage internet traffic, from user generated...
Date: 08/01/2012
MLS is the largest supplier of library automation software to schools and colleges in the UK, and...
Date: 07/17/2012
I have know James Varga for several years, and he has been involved in some incredibly interesting...
Date: 06/28/2012
Shoothill’s “FloodAlerts” on Facebook has been selected as a winner in the Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – and it runs on Windows Azure
The Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – Winners - Innovation in enterprise - Shoothill...
Date: 06/06/2012
One of the best books I have read recently is “Free: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing...
Date: 05/29/2012
Put 22nd June in your diary if you are interested in Windows Azure, and if you want to hear the...
Date: 05/29/2012
Real World Windows Azure: LinkFresh Cloud QA – An application that helps businesses deliver safe, fresh, high quality food
One of the best things about my work with Windows Azure is when a system actually goes live, so our...
Date: 05/11/2012
One of the interesting architectural discussions that comes up when designing highly scalable...
Date: 11/29/2011
It’s great to see one of the partners I have worked with, bbits, who developed the excellent Windows...
Date: 11/29/2011
A few days ago, Eric Nelson and I locked down the dates for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which is...
Date: 11/28/2011
I met up with one of my UK ISV partners, Newgrove to find out more about their new cloud based...
Date: 11/08/2011
In my latest video case study for Channel 9, I talk to Media Science about how they have used the...
Date: 11/08/2011
Our team are hosting another Windows Azure BizSpark Camp in London, on Friday 30th September, 2011....
Date: 09/06/2011
If you are in the process of evaluating the Windows Azure platform, one of the questions you are may...
Date: 08/19/2011
Our team do all our work with partners who are the early movers, those who see the cloud, and in...
Date: 07/25/2011
The whole area of autoscaling Windows Azure applications comes up as a regular topic in discussions...
Date: 06/22/2011
The Windows Azure Platform went live in January 2010 which means that in the UK we already have some...
Date: 06/20/2011
Active Web Solutions, one of the UK partners that has been working with Windows Azure since before...
Date: 06/09/2011