Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 23, 2009
Just got a note from The Experts Conference organizers that my session on Azure and identity management got into the agenda. Active Directory, User Identity and Azure/BPOS for IT Professionals In this session we will dive into identity management, federation and sign-on process for Windows Azure and Microsoft’s BPOS products such as Exchange Online and [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 18, 2009
Jay Heiser and David Gootzit from Gartner have just published an excellent report on “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. The report is really valuable for anyone either building clouds or cloud-related products, or considering to move sensitive data to a SaaS application. The key areas they look into are: List of typical SaaS applications [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 13, 2009
It’s official: Microsoft partners will be able to run Windows Azure too. The news was broken by Microsoft’s general manager of business strategy for cloud infrastructure services Doug Hauger this Wednesday as he spoke at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. I quote from ENT News: “This is a beautiful [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 10, 2009
Google has finally made Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise their focus area – these are no longer just one of their experimental areas. Within just last couple of weeks there were a few significant updates to Gmail/Google Apps (probably more than we’ve seen for the whole year before that!): Offline support both for Gmail [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 5, 2009
Looks like I will be presenting at Microsoft TechEd US in LA this May. I have just got notified that the session got approved. Will be my first full hour TechEd session (I was only co-presenting at previous TechEds) – so I am really looking forward to the event. Case Study: Migrating Existing Client Applications [...]