Channel 9 - Entries tagged with David Gristwood

More conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure

David Gristwood — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:33:32 GMT

It's always a pleasure to converse with my old friend and colleague, David Chappell (www.davidchappell.com), this time in London during his world tour where he has been talking about cloud computing, Windows Azure and its impact on developers. In this interview, I get the chance to discuss these themes – what it means for software companies and enterprises, what sorts of project people are using cloud computing for, how will people measure success, and how will people in the industry will be impacted over the next few years.

How Active Web Solutions built their “Global Alerting Platform” on Windows Azure

David Gristwood — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:47:33 GMT

David Gristwood met up with Richard Prodger, from Active Web Solutions (AWS) to discover more built their new “Global Alerting Platform” (http://www.globalalerting.com/), a system that ushers in a new generation of devices that mean “no matter where you are, you can be sure that you will always be in contact and you can be found”, and finds out why the built it, and why they chose the Windows Azure platform.

Windows Azure learnings - Mydeo's 2 Week Proof of Concept

David Gristwood — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:28:23 GMT

David Gristwood talks with Mydeo (http://www.mydeo.com//) at the end of an intense 2 week Windows Azure “Proof of Concept” activity at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in the UK. They talk about their motivation for looking at Windows Azure, the architecture thy came up with, and what they achieved in the 2 weeks working with Windows Azure.

Imperial War Museum, Armadillo Systems and Windows 7 Touch

David Gristwood — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:02:00 GMT

David Gristwood visits the Imperial War Museum (http://www.iwm.org.uk/) in London to find out how they are using a new Windows 7 multi-touch system, developed by Armadillo Systems (http://www.armadillosystems.com/), to let visitors to the museum learn more about important icons from World War II, such as the Spitfire plane.

Windows Azure learnings - Exceedra's 3 week Proof of Concept

David Gristwood — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:45:00 GMT

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, and discuss some of the design decisions and trade-offs they made.

Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

David Gristwood — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:22:00 GMT

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 the role of private vs public cloud.

Moe Khosravy talks about Codename "Dallas"

David Gristwood — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:07:00 GMT

David Gristwood interviews Moe Khosravy about codename "Dallas, a key part of the Azure platform, and finds out more about just what it is, why developers should be interested, and sees some interesting Dallas demos.

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Screencast - "Deploying and Monitoring Applications"

David Gristwood — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:08:00 GMT

Adrian Jakeman from QA, with David Gristwood, takes you through one of the labs from the "Windows Azure Platform Training Kit" - "Deploying and Monitoring Applications in Windows Azure". Sit back and learn how to use Powershell to help automate your Windows Azure deployments and then how to monitor them once they are live.

Real World Azure Projects – Sharpcloud

David Gristwood — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:13:00 GMT

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 their strategic planning. The user interface is very rich, very dynamic, and is based on Silverlight, whilst all the backend processing and storage runs on Windows Azure. Find out why they chose Azure and Silverlight, and how they have architected their solution. See it in action at www.sharpcloud.com

Real World Azure Projects - Factonomy

David Gristwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:34:00 GMT

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 Azure and SQL Azure storage, and what approaches they have taken to handling upgrades and maintenance.

Hands on with SQL Azure (CTP 2)

David Gristwood — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:37:00 GMT

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 Gristwood and Keith Burns discuss these features, as Keith demos SQL Server Integration Services, Reporting Services, and BCP in action.