Cloud

I've been using the evolution of water supply as an analogy for the evolution of computing platforms for some time now. As part of an internal event this month, we had this animation produced and I thought it was worth sharing.

Most of the attention of cloud computing is focused on leveraging the elasticity and self-provisioning power of virtual machines in the "cloud," but what about your data?  Windows Azure has several options for hosting your data - Azure tables, Azure blobs, and SQL Azure - what…

PocketNow just uncovered a new application that delivers Dropbox access to Windows Phone owners. It’s an app called “DroppedBoxx,” which is now in development now over on the XDA-Developers forum. The app, still in early beta, lets you browse your Dropbox folder, download files to your phone, email…

Mozy, makers of the popular “cloud” backup service by the same name, have just announced a new client software application for Windows users called, unsurprisingly,  “Mozy 2.0 for Windows.” The biggest change in this new edition of the program is the ability to perform local backups in…

Take a break from your hectic day to join Laura & Paul as they bring you all the top stories that were being sent around Microsoft this week. Stories like :A Private CloudBill Gates: Device vision- back in 2007Microsoft is so VERY SocialRobotics for FREE

Datacastle provides a way for businesses to protect vulnerable data with backup, recovery, encryption, and even data shredding if laptops might be lost or stolen. The data protection server console manage protection is both on premises and hosted in Windows Azure. It also includes a Web…

"The Internet was born without an identity". -Kim Cameron.With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a legend in the identity architecture and engineering space. He is currently the chief…

In Part 2 of From Paper to the Cloud, Epson Software Engineer Kent Sisco shows how Windows 7 Touch can be used in a kiosk setting with a printer and scanner. Epson Imaging Technology Center (EITC) team has created an application called Marksheets that converts marks…

10 years of .NET and 10 years of .NET Web Services! Well, perhaps this was not mark the starting point of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) but the last decade has seen an unpresidented period where SOA has reigned supreme at top of the hype cycle! David Sprott, CEO, CBDI-Forum has dedicated his…

What's happening to the enterprise? What's the next generation enterprise going to look like?Ans: An Orange!I got to talk backstage at Architect Insight the other month with Iain Mortimer, Chief Architect, Bank of America Merrill Lynch about next generation enterprises and oranges! For more on info…