Cloud

(Photo by John Kerstholt) The notion that non-tech-industry people should care about cloud computing continues to weasel its way into mainstream media and popular culture, most recently with a slew of stories about how last week's East Coast storms were to blame for the unscheduled downtime that…

Host Kirk Evans talks with Jeff Becraft from AT&T Hosting & Application Services about the hosting services that AT&T provides, why customers should take a serious look at hosting in the cloud, and what features of SharePoint 2010 interest him as a hosting provider.  We…

Architecting for the cloud means understanding and embracing the fundamental aspects of it.  Commodity hardware at scale requires a scale out vs. scale up approach.  Commodity hardware fails and very few services provide 100% uptime SLAs.  This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and…

This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, includes coverage of scalability and deployment considerations for scalable and resilient systems. Topics include scale units, fault domains and upgrade domains, resilient fault handling and circuit breakers, data decomposition, data…

This week on MSDN Radio, John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer from the Microsoft Visual Studio team will talk about LightSwitch—a new tool that allows you to easily and quickly build high-quality business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud. This MSDN Radio is hosted by  Mithun…

A continuation of the previous session, this session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, continues coverage of core concepts. Topics such as functional decomposition, business architecture, throttling, failure points, and failure modes.

This session, delivered by Mark Simms, will provide an understanding of the various options for data management in Azure and help you map system capabilities against solution requirements. The session will cover the wide range of options for managing data, compositional approaches, and how to…

Cloud services run 24x7 and at scale. Failures will happen. Good software will be instrumented to help operations and developers pinpoint the location of the issues. Great software will automate diagnosis, resolution, and verification based on known patterns. This session, delivered by Marc Mercuri,…

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…