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Avanade recently released their 2009 Cloud Computing survey . Joe McKendrick has provided some good commentary on some of the key scenarios in his blog post earlier this week. What’s clear from the survey is: a) there is a lot (and growing) interest in
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I’m attending PDC 2009 in Los Angeles along with 40 or so (as at last week) customers and partners from Australia. If you haven’t registered yet and want to deep dive on any of our latest developer technology and be there for Windows Azure’s commercial
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I’m pleased to announce that the winner of the new CloudApp() Australian side-bet is an application called Traffic in the Cloud ; built by Brisbane-based developer, John O’Brien from Soul Solutions . Included below is John’s description of Traffic in
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Microsoft recently announced new CloudApp (), a developer challenge for both .NET & PHP developers creating cloud applications or services on the Azure Services Platform. Follow on twitter (#newCloudApp). There are categories for both US and
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Recently I delivered an overview talk at JAOO in Sydney and Brisbane on Azure Services Platform, and specifically Windows Azure. As always an interesting crowd with good questions at JAOO - thanks to Dave Thomas and the rest of the JAOO team
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FAQ: Where do I find out more about architecting and developing apps for Azure? Well there is www.azure.com , but specifically two of the best places to get up to speed are the “How Do I?” videos and the Azure Services Training Kit . The How Do
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One of the more unique elements of the Azure Services Platform is .NET Services . Much of the current discussion around Cloud Computing focuses on moving certain IT workloads to the cloud (for example email like Microsoft Online ) or cloud compute and
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For the last week I’ve been working with the shy and retiring web guru Michael Kordahi on a solution to deliver enhanced coverage of the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade to the readers of the Sydney Morning Herald and Fairfax’s other Australian newspapers like
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We have a couple of last-minute spots available on an Azure Services Platform developer training course next week (March 10th – 12th) in Sydney City. If you’re a hands-on Solutions Architect or Senior Developer this is a great chance
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At the end of last week I was busy with our Steve Ballmer Power to Developers event here in Sydney. Here is the complete video from our cloud development overview session. During Gianpaolo’s visit we had some good local discussions with the customer
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Following on from a slew of announcements around our Software + Services platform futures at PDC last week we have organised an update for the Australian developer community this week during SteveB’s visit down under. You can find out more about the event
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Recently when talking to an enterprise customer about SaaS and multi-tenancy considerations and it became clear that our guidance around architecting for SaaS is being read and applied. I think this is partly because reference implementations like Litware
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