Consumerization of IT: an example
Over the last 2 years or so (here and here for example), I have been discussing how consumer grade IT services might/will be used as part of enterprise IT, Gartner even says that Consumerization Will...
View ArticleSoftware + Services for Architects Webcast
A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a webcast (~1hour) going through some of the architectural challenges faced by ISV architects in building S+S solutions, as well as the ones faced by architects in...
View ArticleSoftware + Services for Architects Webcast
A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a webcast (~1hour) going through some of the architectural challenges faced by ISV architects in building S+S solutions, as well as the ones faced by architects in...
View ArticleMulti Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint
Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build against a database. Based on some work we did on our super famous sample application LitwareHR , we just...
View ArticleA little English lesson for cloud lingo lovers…
Being a non native English speaker I regularly make pronunciation or grammar mistakes and I usually don't mind. There is one thing I learned today though that I found amusing mostly because it is a...
View ArticleSo, I have been tagged…
Over the week end, my good buddy Vittorio a.k.a. the man who knows more about identity than it is mentally safe, started a new game and tagged me. Now, time to fire up a meme. There are super smart...
View ArticleCloud Services Architecture symposium
As indicated in various press articles and blog entries in the recent weeks, PDC will be Microsoft's 'coming out' party for its cloud services platform. These additional platform assets will create a...
View ArticleHead in the cloud, Feet on the ground: an article about the cloud
My brother in arms Eugenio and I wrote an article a few weeks back discussing the opportunity that "the cloud" offers in terms of IT optimization. Of course this is not the only opportunity that "the...
View ArticlePDC is over, it was awesome! Now, off to Sydney
What a week at the PDC! With the CTP release Azure Services Platform I don't think that anyone is doubting anymore about Microsoft ability to understand and execute on "the cloud". But PDC was not only...
View ArticleCrikey… I am moving to Australia
In a few weeks, I will be packing all my goods in Redmond and board a big Qantas Airbus A380 to Sydney Australia !! My 4 and 1/2 years in Redmond have been a blast, I'm looking forward to more of those...
View ArticleI’m Back!!! Well… sort of
Still not fully back on blogging quite yet (soon I promise). In the meantime, (if you want) you can follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcarraro. See you soon in the 140 char / tinyurl world!...
View ArticleWhat I learned from the IE8 competition… since I paid for it :)
Wow… I have not blogged for a while, but I need to get out my blog silence to share my experience about the IE8 $10K prize competition, which by now, half of the Internet and 80% of Twitter community...
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