Cloud Computing

Windows Azure und Cloud Computing auf infantile Weise erklärt. Sollte man gesehen haben, auch wenn man bisher mit neuen IT-Technologien nichts am Hut hatte. Für alle Nerds und Geeks ohnehin ein Muss!!

The Office Live Workspace Team has just introduced new features into the Office Live Workspace service – a free service which serves as sort of a “SharePoint-Lite” repository for saving, sharing, commenting on, and organizing your files. In addition to the service’s expansion to Eastern Europe,…

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…

[Stay tuned, Laura Foy is meeting with these folks and will have a video soon.] Microsoft Research will be debuting a prototype called Social Desktop at the annual TechFest event being held next week. This software offers a new take on cloud computing, blending the PC and the web in a completely…

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…

A new platform is emerging—one that simplifies the process around deploying, hosting, and managing your applications, using low-cost shared infrastructure provided by a particular vendor. This type of platform is commonly referred to as "the cloud." This movement is producing a great…

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.

Building a simple web application and deploying it to Windows Azure.

Vice President of Windows Live David Treadwell explains Azure's Live Services. He whiteboards the architecture of Live Services (love getting VPs to the whiteboard!), discusses what's available in the Azure CTP, what's coming and, finally, why we are doing all of the cloud business in the first…

Technical Fellow John Shewchuk and Principal Group Manager Dennis Pilarinos explain the past, present and future of the Azure's .NET Services. John and Dennis are the orginal thinkers behind .NET Services.They started this project a few years ago. The services layer on top of Windows…