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Economist Debates: Cloud Computing

Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:07 AM by stevecla01
  There is an interesting debate under way over at Economist Debates on Cloud computing and whether it can be trusted. It pits Stephen Elop who runs the Microsoft Business Division (think Office, SharePoint etc) against Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com Read More...
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Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud

Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 3:42 PM by stevecla01
   [credit: Sunday Times ] The Sunday Times here in the UK had a lengthy interview with Stephen Elop yesterday under the title Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud . It covered the impact of the cloud at Microsoft and reaffirmed that Read More...
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Microsoft’s future is cloudy

Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:46 PM by stevecla01
Is Microsoft late to the cloud or early? I read the NY Times today who posited that Microsoft is late to cloud computing whilst the cover story of The Economist is “The Battle over cloud computing” and acknowledges that Microsoft has in fact been cloud Read More...
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History of the cloud

Posted Sunday, October 04, 2009 7:16 PM by stevecla01
from geekandpoke …though funny it’s technically not really right unless PC’s were doing virtualisation back then? tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/10/04/history-of-the-cloud.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service Read More...
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Microsoft’s containers roll in to the data center

Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:50 PM by stevecla01
Microsoft Chicago Data Center Container Bay   I love Dave’s GreenM3 blog – it’s my go to place for data center news. So much so that I just got the info about our own Chicago data center opening over at his site. Of particular interest was the coverage Read More...
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I’ve seen the cloud…it lives in Dublin

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:14 PM by stevecla01
I’m in sunny Dublin today (yep, it’s sunny here) for the grand opening of Microsoft’s first “ mega datacenter ” outside of the US. What you may ask is a mega datacenter? Well basically it’s an enormous facility from we’ll deliver our cloud services to Read More...
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Exchange, not Gmail in DC Government

Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:42 PM by stevecla01
I was in Redmond last week when the news broke about Apps.gov – the US governments moves in to the cloud and I was as surprised as a few others around me that Microsoft didn’t feature at all in the announcement or the portal for the effort. It’s a sterling Read More...
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the cloud buzz

Posted Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:54 PM by stevecla01
Another classic from Geek & Poke . Shoot me if you hear me doing the cloud thing! tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/08/30/the-cloud-buzz.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Read More...
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The Private Cloud hoopla

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:52 PM by stevecla01
Another fine post from Tom Bittman If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come? . He helps cut through the noise around private clouds with a statement that could be applied to much more than just cloud computing   We’ve got to get our IT people Read More...
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Understanding Cloud Computing

Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:25 AM by stevecla01
Above The Clouds View more presentations from Steve Clayton .   A while back, the fine folks at Berkeley RAD Lab produced an excellent paper titled Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing .   A little less of a while ago, Pat Helland Read More...
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The Twitter hack and cloud computing confusion

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:39 AM by stevecla01
I was reading my feeds this morning and noticed a post from BusinessWeek titled Twitter Hack Highlights Cloud Risks . It caught my eye as the whole Twitter debacle of the last 24 hours has nothing to do with Cloud Risks and everything to do with poor Read More...
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Microsoft’s interoperable cloud

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:59 PM by stevecla01
A busy week for Azure and more to come next week at Worldwide Partner Conference. Meantime, Mary-Jo Foley provides a good update today on the interop status of Windows Azure. The team there is heads down cranking out code and this week and this week released Read More...
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Two More Microsoft Mega Datacenters next month

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:08 PM by stevecla01
Our Global Foundation Services team posted on their blog yesterday about two more mega data centers coming online next month:   July marks the launch of our two newest mega data centers in Chicago and Dublin. Our Dublin facility will go live on July Read More...
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Another Yahoo Lands at Microsoft

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:45 PM by stevecla01
[Photo: Simon Norfolk for The New York Times] The swinging door at Yahoo! continues as today we announced Kevin Timmons has joined Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services Team (aka GFS). I seem to talk more and more about GFS lately as our datacenters become Read More...
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Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:14 PM by stevecla01
  Though I get to do less direct customer and partner gigs in my current role, I still try to keep a regular “reality check” with both of them by meeting with partners who have become good friends and taking on customer presentations where I can. Read More...
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