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Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast

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: Read More...

Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 12:23 AM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Harvard Business School Cybersymposium

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:08 PM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) – Deep Dive Event

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:49 PM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Supercomm 2009

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 -- Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:12 PM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Communications as a Service Goes Mainstream

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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:34 AM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Interview on SaaS/CaaS and Cloud Computing

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:57 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

Using Visual Studio DSL Tools to Simplify Network Activation

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:23 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

What Matters?

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:18 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

Cloud Computing, Government and Privacy

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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:07 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

More on Internet Telephony Conference on September 17

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:15 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

Internet Telephony Conference and Expo

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:54 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

My colleague Michael Scherotter, a User Experience aficionado, will be conducting a Silverlight and WPF workshop in NYC on 9/3/2008. Foe more details on this workshop, please go to Michael's blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2008/08/27/silverlight-and-wpf-workshop-in-nyc-9-3-2008.asp Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:48 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments

Service Syndication for CaaS at NXTCOmm

I will be at NXTComm next week talking about Services Syndication for Communications as a Service (CaaS) solutions. Services Syndication allows for the aggregation of CaaS services into a cohesive product offering and addresses many of the management Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:31 PM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Communications as a Service (Caas) on Channel 9

My colleague Michael Scherotter and I had a couple of conversations about CaaS on Michael's Communicating show on MSDN's Channel 9. The first show contains an overview of CaaS. This show talks about: the evolution in telecommunications equipment Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:36 PM by hofstader | 0 Comments

Feedback on "we don't need no architects"

It's been over a week since The Architecture Journal published it's latest issue and my article " We Don't Need No Architects ." The intent of this article was to present some of the common perceptions of architects in the IT community and look at the Read More...

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 3:47 PM by hofstader | 1 Comments