Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
In this interesting Forrester post about embracing the open web Jeffrey Hammond highlights the presence of two different developer communities. In his words: "…there are two different developer communities out there that I deal with. In the past, I’ve referred to these groups as the "inside the firewall crowd" and the "outside the firewall crowd." [...]
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The Future Of The IT Department
Recently I have been witness to rapid, often painful, change within my own internal IT division over the last few years and observed the on-going developments in the industry. It is clear that IT departments changed dramatically in a short amount of time and the pace is not relenting. This has led me to try [...]
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Tags: Agile, Architecture, IT Industry, linkedin, Management
Ray Ozzie’s Dawn of a New Day
I would recommend everyone interested in technology to read Ray Ozzie’s (Chief Software Architect of Microsoft) memo – "Dawn of a New Day". It’s a fascinating insight into the vision of a key player in the industry and a call to arms for Microsoft and it’s partners. What interests me the most about this vision [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Cloud Computing, IT Industry, linkedin, SOA
Microsoft’s recent announcement that the key Drive Extender feature is to be removed from the new version of Windows Home Server codenamed ‘Vail’ has resulted in much dismay within the community. Many commentators, including the vocal WHS user community itself, have started to question the future of this product. In this post I give my [...]
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Tags: Home Server, linkedin, WHS, Windows Server
Private Clouds Gaining Momentum
Well its been an interesting few weeks for cloud computing, mostly in the "private cloud" space. Microsoft have announced their Windows Azure Appliance enabling you to buy a Windows Azure cloud solution in a box (well actually many boxes as it comprises of hundreds of servers) and also the OpenStack cloud offering continues to grow [...]
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Tags: Architecture, CIO, Cloud Computing, IT Industry, linkedin
I’m a fan of Windows Azure and have enjoyed using it during its CTP phase. Once the CTP was open for registration like many I jumped at the chance to play with this new paradigm in Software Development. During this CTP phase I have written some small private web applications that really do nothing more [...]
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Tags: .Net, Azure, Cloud Computing
Windows Azure : An Introduction
At last year’s PDC Microsoft released the details of its new venture into the next IT paradigm that is arguably set to change the way that applications are developed, hosted, managed and funded – Cloud Computing. It is easy to dismiss Cloud Computing is a fad or simply as a move back towards the mainframe [...]
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Windows Azure Nuggets
Whilst the traditional technical video is great at hearing about a subject in detail they are usually around an hour in length making it difficult to fit them into a busy schedule. Fortunately these excellent videos on Azure are around 10 minutes, so there’s no excuse not to fit them into your week. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx#windowsazure
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Tags: .Net, Azure, Cloud Computing
There is a new updated version of the Windows Azure Training Kit available for download (link below): Azure Services Training Kit – February Update. This release includes the following updates: 19 demo scripts that walkthrough several of the services 10 presentations covering the entire Azure Services Platform 3 additional hands-on labs for Live Services
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Windows Azure: Links
A selection of the best links for Microsoft Azure information: A Windows Azure Developer Starter Guide SDK Release Notes (always worth re-reading) Gus Perez’s Azure Links Deploying a Service on Windows Azure (MSDN) Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (MSDN) Diagnose & Fix Azure Dev Storage Service Issues Azure Services Developer Centre (MSDN) Azure [...]
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