Joe's Thoughts on Software Architecture

Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast

hofstader — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:23:03 GMT

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)

Harvard Business School Cybersymposium

hofstader — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:44 GMT

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)

Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) – Deep Dive Event

hofstader — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:49:44 GMT

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)

Supercomm 2009

hofstader — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:12:48 GMT

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)

Communications as a Service Goes Mainstream

hofstader — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:34:24 GMT

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)

Interview on SaaS/CaaS and Cloud Computing

hofstader — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:57:25 GMT

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)

Using Visual Studio DSL Tools to Simplify Network Activation

hofstader — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:23:00 GMT

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)

What Matters?

hofstader — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:18:30 GMT

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)

Cloud Computing, Government and Privacy

hofstader — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:07:34 GMT

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)

More on Internet Telephony Conference on September 17

hofstader — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:15:14 GMT

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)

Internet Telephony Conference and Expo

hofstader — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:54:31 GMT

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)

Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008

hofstader — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:29 GMT

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)

Service Syndication for CaaS at NXTCOmm

hofstader — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:31:50 GMT

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)

Communications as a Service (Caas) on Channel 9

hofstader — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:36:41 GMT

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)

Feedback on "we don't need no architects"

hofstader — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:47:00 GMT

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)