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The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main issue in this year’s PDC was Microsoft’s full thrust motion towards cloud computing with Windows Azure . Ray Ozzie’s vision of “ Three Screens in a Cloud ” and Bob Muglia’s approach to “ Cloud...
In this PDC session, Clemens Vasters, Principal Technical Lead at Microsoft, showed how can an existing “regular” distributed enterprise application be migrated to the cloud. DinnerNow.NET The session revolved around the migrating the DinnerNow.NET sample application into the cloud. DinnerNow.net is a popular Microsoft sample illustrating IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax, LINQ, WCF, WF, WPF, PowerShell and .NET CF. This demo is interesting since it is an existing application code base which was not designed for...
In the second PDC keynote, Bob Muglia, President of Server Applications & Tools, spoke of the Cloud Application Model as the next widespread and accepted software model: Mainframe. Client-Server. Web. SOA. Cloud Computing. According to Bob’s vision, cloud computing would be successful as it would enable some very complex scenarios such as scaling out, failure resiliency and many more which are hard to deal with today. Several announcements were made during the session, and these are highlighted...
Finally, the PDC itself has started and it has started with the keynote by Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie. The main vision which was threaded throughout Ray’s keynote is the concept of “ Three Screens in a Cloud ” – server runtime over “Windows Azure” and “SQL Azure” cloud computing platform and user experience on top “Windows 7” and “Silverlight” across platforms. Windows Azure Special attention was given to the cloud platform “Windows Azure” which was announced to be in production...