Cloud Architecture

Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along…

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud. This episode is part 2 in the series,…

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud?  This episode is part one of the…

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.

Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft talks to Abraham Sultan, Chief Architect at Apprenda, about the SaaSGrid solution architecture. Abraham discusses his experiences and the underlying criteria to build exclusively on top of, and for, the Microsoft platform. The…

You first learned about Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It's been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who…

IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, has developed the ReachLive application that voice enables web applications.  ReachLive combines IntelePeer's AppworX programmatic telecommunications platform with Microsoft's Live Services to provide communications features.  The video describes the…

Today we talk with Ethan Jackson about Cloud applications.  Cloud applications are web-based distributed systems deployed over a fluctuating set of computing nodes and services. The design of cloud applications is particularly challenging because few assumptions can be made about the…

Mark Hindsbo from Microsoft interviews Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic.  They discuss the impact of Cloud Computing as it relates to the application developer, the enterprise, and the impact on consulting organizations.

Manuvir Das, Director in the Windows Azure team introduces us to Microsoft's new cloud operating system, Windows Azure. Is Windows Azure a new OS from Microsoft? Well, sort of, but not in a strict sense (e.g., Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008). That said, one could say that Windows Azure…