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 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 ...

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 ...

Razorfish Technology Capabilities Differentiates

Monday, August 24th, 2009

It's great to get some market recognition for all our efforts. In this post Forrester recognizes that technology differentiates and our addition to Publicis will help strengthen their market position. This captured our attention '"What about Razorfish? The firm has much stronger design capabilities, both for user experience and what we ...

Windows : Mac :: Google : (?) - It happens to be “bing”

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...

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 ...

Brand experiences and MOSS

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

All the video's for the 2009 MIX conference are posted online (http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09) and they are interesting for anybody developing on the Microsoft platform. One of the session posted is about developing consumer facing brand sites, presented by Tony Jones, Technology Director for Razorfish. It touches on the unique challenges that ...

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. ...

CMIS - will it revolutionize the CMS industry?

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Last year three major CMS/ECM vendors IBM/Microsoft/ECM came together to propose new standards that will change the CMS landscape the same way SQL 92 did for the database industry.  Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standards cover services that allow interoperability between content stores. These standards cover the three basic areas of ...

Google Chrome - Why it is different?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...