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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft talking about a private cloud?

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Just a couple of weeks after Amazon's announcement of their private cloud offering it looks like Microsoft is starting to open discussions in that direction. What's interesting about Microsoft's discussion is that are coming at it from two directions. They are a provider to the data centers, hosting ...

.gov is saving money and time with cloud computing

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Cnet reports today on how Vivek Kundra, theĀ US Chief Information Officer (CIO), is pushing for more movement into the clould computing space to help save taxpayer dollars. There are definitely huge savings with clould computing and it's getting harder and harder for enterprises to ignore. Especially with the recent announcement ...

Amazon Advances Cloud Computing with the Private Cloud

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Amazon Advances Cloud Computing with the introduction of a private clould. The economics really are powerful enough to force business to take note. Anecdotally I've spoken to several highly functional startup web application using the clould succesfully. WIth the advent of more secure private clouds I don't see ...

Cloud interoperabiltiy

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting. "At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...

OpenCloud Manifesto = Skynet

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...