How Active Web Solutions built their “Global Alerting Platform” on Windows Azure

Posted: Mar 04, 2011 at 2:47 AM
By: David Gristwood
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David Gristwood met up with Richard Prodger, from Active Web Solutions (AWS) to discover more built their new “Global Alerting Platform” (http://www.globalalerting.com/), a system that ushers in a new generation of devices that mean “no matter where you are, you can be sure that you will always be in contact and you can be found”, and finds out why the built it, and why they chose the Windows Azure platform.

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