TechEd USA 2009 wrap up
Friday concluded this year’s TechED: North America. We were delighted to have thousands of developers, IT professionals and technology decision makers in attendance, gaining insights into how to make...
View ArticleAzure Dev Challenge Questions Tackled
Last month Microsoft announced its first-ever Azure Developer Challenge. Since then, we’ve received strong interest and several questions about the competition. The question I most frequently receive...
View ArticleMicrosoft Keynoting at JavaOne…That Just Happened!
While the idea of Microsoft giving a keynote address at JavaOne – the Java community’s biggest conference of the year – has probably raised a few eyebrows, it really shouldn’t come as that big of a...
View ArticleOur offer still stands and you know where to find us…
I talked about the results of a benchmarking study performed by Greg Leake a couple months back on my blog. Greg took a hard look at Windows Server 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 in comparison to...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Meets Physical License – 3 Things you care about in the cloud
At the PDC, the volume of announcements on product updates, new offers and emerging technology can be so high that details can be easily lost. While there are those who pride themselves on detecting...
View ArticleService Provider License Agreement (SPLA) changes for Windows Server
Summary for the Service Provider IT Professionals / Procurement Officers who are desperately late for a meeting and spilling coffee as they run down the hall… There are some pricing changes for Windows...
View ArticleVirtualization, Consolidation and Cloud – What Will It Mean For Servers? Two...
Two Truths and a Myth: The rate of virtualization (number of servers and / or number of instances per server) has hit a plateau. The total number of virtual instances will be greater than physical...
View ArticleVirtualization – More Bang, Less Buck
Yesterday, David Greschler posted a bit on HyperV and System Center which referenced a recent InfoWorld article as well as a recent study from ESG on performance. Towards the end of Greschler’s post,...
View ArticleReduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option
Yesterday I posted a blog on the Windows Azure Blog announcing new pricing which will benefit both small and large SQL Azure DB customers. If you haven’t already, please check it out!
View ArticleDatacenter Expansion and Capacity Planning
Update on recent developments regarding Windows Azure Datacenter Expansion and Capacity planning – here.
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