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Microsoft Israel CTO for Development Technologies and Platform Strategy's Blog. Through this blog, Eliaz is trying to help developers, architects, CTOs and R&D managers understand, use and make better decisions with Microsoft's new technologies... on the Microsoft's Development Tools, Architecture and Platform Strategy for the Cloud, Application Life Cycle Management, SOA, .NET and more

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General Availability of the Windows Azure Platform in Israel from April 9th, 2010
Starting last friday, April 9th, 2010, the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, including Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric became generally available in Israel and additional 19 countries, making our flexible cloud services platform available to a global customer base and partner ecosystem across 41 countries. On Feb 1st, 2010, we announced the general availability of the Windows Azure platform in 21 countries. In Israel, the currency for billing will be $ USD...

Posted Sunday, April 11, 2010 12:32 AM by eliazt | 2 comment(s)

Launch of Windows Azure at Israel’s Developers Academy 4 Keynotes Today – 1/2
Wow, what an event! 1700 Developers and thousands more live through the Internet participated in the annual developers event. During the keynotes today, I had the pleasure of launching the cloud platform for developers, the Windows Azure Platform. In this post, I’ll talk about the end of my session that included a demo that was running on Windows Azure and its purpose was to present a questionnaire to the developers in the audience who use Twitter. The service in the cloud asked the audience 3 questions...

Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:14 AM by eliazt | with no comments

Revealing Microsoft’s Cloud Services in “The World Summit for Cloud Computing”
3 days ago, Maor David and I had the chance to co-present and speak on Microsoft’s recent announcements for the cloud. The “World Summit of Cloud Computing” as part of IGT took place in Shefaim convention center with 400 people attending. It was published as a global event and therefore it was all conducted in English. From the feedbacks we’ve got, people were very impressed from our roadmap and offerings for Public Cloud Windows Azure Platform , our Private Cloud with Dynamic Data Center Toolkit...

Posted Saturday, December 05, 2009 5:32 PM by eliazt | with no comments

The Architecture Journal – Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow
A few months ago, I was approached by Diego Dagum, a dear friend and a great architect who also happens to be the Editor-In-Chief for the MSDN Architecture Journal . Diego asked if I would like to work with him on the SOA edition for the Architecture Journal as a Guest Editor-In-Chief. Looking back, I’d say it was a great experience to be able to impact the contents and vision of such an important edition that reaches 10,000s of architects around the world. The result was an Edition that discusses...

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:29 PM by eliazt | with no comments

Windows Azure Platform World Wide Announcement
Throughout these moments, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect is announcing the general availability of the Windows Azure Platform. The Windows Azure Platform will provide Infrastructure & Management Services (Windows Azure), Database Services (SQL Azure) and Developer Services (.NET Services). In the next few months, Israel will be the first country in MEA to launch the Windows Azure Platform. In preparation for the launch, we will participate in the World Summit of Cloud Computing event...

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:18 PM by eliazt | with no comments

Summarizing the SOA and S+S Track in Tech-Ed
Wow, this was a great Tech-Ed. In the last two months, I've been working with each and every one of the speakers to make their session become a blast. I have seen some of the speakers for more than 5 reviews and the results were just great. The track started with a 15 minutes opening where I covered the why and the what behind SOA and S+S, the current and future Microsoft solution portfolio and finally the teaser to the track sessions. Later on the first day,we've had an overview of the SOA...

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 10:13 PM by eliazt | 2 comment(s)

The Video Recording of my SOA Talk was uploaded to MSDN Architecture Site
  Diego Dagum, my friend, and the Architect from Redmond responsible for the MSDN Architecture site has uploaded my ESB/SOA/S+S talk to the MSDN Architecture site - "A walkthrough towards SOA and S+S" The recording is from Finland. I encourage you to go to this link and see the meat behind the buzzwords and how they can be implemented in organizations today. This is the site screenshot as of November 10th, 2007:  

Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:32 PM by eliazt | 1 comment(s)

Is S+S the next version of SOA?
Yes, No, Maybe. S+S, Software + Services, has many flavors and forms depending on who is asking. Most times it is the ability to use both on-premise software (inside the organization) and out-reach services from the Internet. One of the scenarios where S+S is also relevant is an organization that uses both internal services and also external services in a single business process. For example, if we want to discharge a patient from a hospital, we can say that the process uses the following services...

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 12:47 AM by eliazt | with no comments