David Gristwood

David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between Infrastructure vs Platform as a Service, and…

“If I ruled the world”, says David Chappell, “I would make the phrase ‘private cloud’ illegal”. In conversation with David Gristwood, David Chappell, during his recent world tour, discusses Windows Azure, its importance and role in the partner ecosystem, and other cloud players, such as Google,…

David Gristwood talks with Exceedra (http://www.exceedra.com/) at the end of an intense 3 week Windows Azure “Proof of Concept” activity at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in the UK. They talk about their motivation for moving to Windows Azure, they describe the architecture thy came up…

With the recent release of the the CTP (Community Technical Preview) of SQL Azure, it seemed an ideal time for David Gristwood to sit down with SQL guru Keith Burns and have a chat with him about data in the cloud, this new version of SQL Server, what it means for developers and systems…

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 1 of this video series. Don, who created F#, introduces…

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 2 of this video series. Don, who created F#,…

David Gristwood meet up with the founders of Sharpcloud, a startup and member of the Microsoft BizSpark program, to find out how they build their newly launched Sharpcloud application, which is a visual, social and analytical environment that allows users to discuss and view information to help…

With the release of the second CTP (Community Tech Preview) of SQL Azure, many developers are starting to get to get to grips with SQL Azure. However, quite a few aren’t aware that many SQL Server features will also work against data stored in the cloud, in SQL Azure. In this video, David…

David Gristwood grabs his camera, and heads down to the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge with Dave Brown, an architect at the Microsoft Technology Centre, to talk to Don Syme, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, about F# in part 3 of this video series. Don, who created F#,…

David Gristwood talks to Graeme Bryce, from Factonomy, about the framework they have built on the Azure platform, which is being used by MoneyDasboard.com.  In particular, he finds out what first attracted them to the Azure platform, what design choices they made around Windows…