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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:38 PM

Head in the cloud, Feet on the ground: an article about the cloud

My brother in arms Eugenio and I wrote an article a few weeks back discussing the opportunity that "the cloud" offers in terms of IT optimization. Of course this is not the only opportunity that "the cloud" will offer, but it is likely
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:40 AM

Cloud Services Architecture symposium

As indicated in various press articles and blog entries in the recent weeks, PDC will be Microsoft's 'coming out' party for its cloud services platform. These additional platform assets will create a vast array of new possibilities, but at the same time
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:32 AM

So, I have been tagged...

Over the week end, my good buddy Vittorio a.k.a. the man who knows more about identity than it is mentally safe, started a new game and tagged me . Now, time to fire up a meme. There are super smart guys out there, and I'd be really curious to know what
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:16 PM

A little English lesson for cloud lingo lovers...

Being a non native English speaker I regularly make pronunciation or grammar mistakes and I usually don't mind. There is one thing I learned today though that I found amusing mostly because it is a small mistake that is commonly made by pretty much everybody
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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:05 PM

Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint

Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build against a database. Based on some work we did on our super famous sample application LitwareHR :) , we just released a blueprint providing guidance on writing
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Monday, July 21, 2008 5:41 PM

Software + Services for Architects Webcast

A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a webcast (~1hour) going through some of the architectural challenges faced by ISV architects in building S+S solutions, as well as the ones faced by architects in large enterprises consuming S+S solutions. Below a couple
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Monday, June 23, 2008 9:05 AM

Make a movie on S+S and win a trip to Macau!

A couple of months ago I wrote an article providing a high level explanation of the basic concepts of S+S, now my friends in Asia Pacific need your help visualizing this article through a great video. Anyone can participate – whether you’re
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Friday, June 20, 2008 3:27 PM

I can't believe we are still talking about whether saas == multi-tenancy...

I was reading Why multi-tenancy matters and Many degrees of multi-tenancy today and honestly, I am still surprised that there is still a debate around whether multi-tenancy is a prerequisite for SaaS. Multi-tenancy is a provider view of things, if you
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:18 PM

Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too

As I mentioned previously , the study of clouds (cloud computing of course) is becoming a very popular topic in the software industry. In the last couple of weeks alone, I read tens of articles on the subject. I found many of them proposing various type
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Monday, May 26, 2008 11:40 PM

Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!

Nephology (from the Greek word nephos for 'cloud') is the study of clouds and cloud formation. It seems to me that everybody in the IT industry wants to be an expert in cloud these days; cloud computing that is. Jokes apart, one thing I learned from the
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:50 AM

You liked LitwareHR v1, You loved LitwareHR v2, You are going to die for LitwareHR 'cloud storage' edition :)

More seriously... Eugenio just announced and released on Codeplex the latest drop of LitwareHR. Although the application UI was treated with a welcomed 'facelift' (we were told that LitwareHR UI was "too 1990s"), the main effort for this release
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:47 AM

Consumerization of IT: an example

Over the last 2 years or so ( here and here for example), I have been discussing how consumer grade IT services might/will be used as part of enterprise IT, Gartner even says that Consumerization Will Be Most Significant Trend Affecting IT During Next
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Friday, February 15, 2008 1:46 PM

S+S Architecture Site on MSDN

Yesterday, we released ( here ) on the MSDN Architecture center a section dedicated to Software + Services (S+S). We realized that depending on whether you are a large enterprise, an ISV, a hosting company or trying to establish yourself as a trusted
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Friday, February 08, 2008 8:52 AM

I think Phil drank the Kool-Aid too but he has not realized it yet :)

Phil believes that I did drink too much Kool-Aid . But after reading his post, it seems to me that we agree on most of the points, or maybe it is the Kool-Aid again :) He says: The answer, my friend, is ‘yes’. Here’s Gianpaolo’s
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:33 PM

S+S: Real or have I drunk too much Kool-Aid? :)

Readers of this blog must have seen that recently I have been spending quite some time discussing 'software + services'. I know that Phil thinks S+S is bunkum but I have to disagree on that one. Of course, an S+S world would disproportionately benefit
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