October, 2009 Archive

Keeping the cloud open

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I really like Matt Asay's article on why we need to focus on keeping the cloud open and less about keeping the operating system open. If you think of the cloud as an 'array' of applications and less of a hosting solution it starts to open up the aperture on ...

SharePoint Conference 2009 - Day 3

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Day 3!  The whole reason I am at the SharePoint Conference this year is because I am helping our client present their SharePoint case study in one of today's sessions. I scheduled some lightweight sessions in the morning, starting with the fun Building Sharepoint Mashups With SharePoint Designer, Bing Maps and ...

SharePoint Conference 2009 - Day 2

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The challenge I always have with these conferences is the plethora of choices available to attendees.  I already know what topics I want to focus on:  WCM; Architecting, Developing and Building public facing internet sites, and Social features in 2010.  But even so, there are still time slots where I ...

SharePoint Conference 2009 - Day 1

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I'm at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas this week. Registration and Exhibit Hall started Sunday night, but sessions officially started Monday. I am tweeting all day during the conference, follow me (@mmdeluna) if you are interested. You can track tweets using #spc09. I will be posting ...

Cloudfront, Amazon’s Caching Delivery Network (CDN)

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Image by playerx via Flickr It's nice to see Amazon moving into the CDN space with their Cloudfront offering, it seems like the CDN market can definitely use some fresh look at the challenge. It looks like it builds off your usage of Amazon S3 but with an ...

How does cloud technology benefit marketing and service organizations?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Lots of folks have been asking about how Cloud Computing helps marketing or web development projects. Here's a couple of the key benefits that have bubbled to the top of the conversations. Cost, cloud services are drastically less expensive than tradition hosting options, so the marketer can do more and ...