Entries tagged with cloud architecture - Channel 9

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too

Bob Familiar — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:03:00 GMT

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. Shy Cohen and Michael Stiefel discuss why this is so, and why small- and medium-sized companies should look for opportunities in the cloud computing area.

Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:47:00 GMT

Manuvir Das discusses the current state of Windows Azure. The last time we spoke was at last year's PDC when we announced Azure to the world. Here, we dig into hat's new today with Azure. How have people used Azure over the past year? What worked? What didn't work? Tune in. It's always great to chat with Manuvir and there's a lot of great info in this conversation.

Talking Architects - Neil Ward-Dutton

Matt Deacon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:41:00 GMT

Matt Deacon, host of Talking Architects talks to Neil Ward-Dutton from the Industry Analyst firm MWD Advisors about the value of IASA, of architects and what they all think of cloud computing!

ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud

Bob Familiar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:33:00 GMT

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud - Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform. Michael discusses three areas of focus for designing and building services so that you can leverage your work into new platforms such as Windows Azure.

ARCast.TV - Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus

Bob Familiar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:40:00 GMT

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. Joe Shirey talks to Clemens Vasters, senior program manager on the Windows Azure team, about the architectural implications of the Internet Services Bus and .NET Services.

ARCast.TV - Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud

Bob Familiar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:39:00 GMT

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 the way? In this talk, learn architectural patterns and factors for moving to the cloud. Based on real-world projects, the talk explores building block services, patterns for exposing applications, and challenges involving identity, data federation, and management. Denny Boynton talks to Simon Guest about the tools and knowledge required to determine whether cloud computing is right for you, and where to start.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing

Bob Familiar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:00 GMT

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, what Microsoft is doing in the cloud computing space.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 1, What it means to the user

Bob Familiar — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:00 GMT

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 discussion, what the cloud means to the user.

ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

Bob Familiar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:00 GMT

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.

S+S Architecture with Abe Sultan from Apprenda

Gunther Lenz — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:20:00 GMT

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 Apprenda solution, called SaaSGrid, enables ISVs to easily run and monetize .NET based solutions, conforming to the SOA paradigm, in a hosted environment. For more information see Apprenda’s website at http://apprenda.com/.

Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava - Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

Charles — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:51:00 GMT

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 better for this next iteration of Expert of Expert than Windows Azure VP Amitabh Srivastava? Exactly.

Amitabh is a computer scientist turned VP. Lucky for us, he chose the Azure project (formerly known as Red Dog) to put his IQ to work. He built a great team including the venerable and mysterious genius David Cutler (what did David build for Azure, anyway? Tune in...). Much brain power followed the trail to Azure clad in red sneakers with distributed visions of cloud computing in their heads. What would they make? How will it evolve?

What is Azure, exactly? Why are we (Microsoft) doing this? What does cloud computing really mean, anyway? Why "Red Dog" for the code name? Is this just hosting? How is Azure different than what, say, Amazon has already been doing for a few years? What's the score here? What's next?

Erik Meijer leads the questioning and Amitabh does a great job explaining things in a readily understandable way. Great stuff!

Enjoy

ReachLive - The Future of Communications

SkiExtreme — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:00 GMT

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 application, the archtiecture , the power of communications as a service (CaaS), and a demo.

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Ethan Jackson - Specifying Cloud Applications

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:03:00 GMT

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 connectivity of nodes, the availability of services, and the long-term evolution of the computing fabric. Ethan describes a new approach to architecting cloud applications. His approach gives developers a powerful set of abstractions that they can use to engineer systems beyond a client-server architecture, while understanding the behavior of their applications in a cloud environment. This is part 1, where we introduce the basic concepts on the whiteboard.

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ARCast.TV - Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic on the Impact of Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:39:00 GMT

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.

Cloud services scale life critical system

Paul Foster — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:31:00 GMT

Providing a life critical system with global scale is getting easier with Windows Azure. Microsoft partner, Active Web Solutions (AWS) has been testing new cloud services for use as a scaleable global datacentre for the MOB Guardian system.
But without transactional support a different approach needs to be undertaken.
Technical Director at AWS, Richard Prodger and Microsoft staff Neil Kidd and Simon Davies, discuss the issues and solutions from the recent proof of concept project and the detail behind the PDC 2008 case study.

Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure

Charles — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:15:00 GMT

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 extends Windows to the cloud. That is, Windows Azure provides a highly scalable virtualization fabric for server-side application execution, deployment, automatic management, and simple storage. Windows Azure provides the base infrastructure for services in the cloud.

Tune in!

Check out the Windows Azure website. and Manuvir's A Lap Around Windows Azure breakout session from PDC 2008.

ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership

Bob Familiar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:00 GMT

This ARCast features Michael Manos who leads all the datacenters for Microsoft globally. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale datacenter environments for Web 2.0 and online services. Michael is interviewed by Lewis Curtis.

ARCast.TV - Dennis McCarthy on Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Bob Familiar — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:22:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Dennis McCarthy, a software architect at Kronos about his research into leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 as an S+S Platform.