Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 27, 2009
Recording from my TEC session on IT professional view on identity management and AD-integration for Exchange Online and Windows Azure has just got posted: Enjoy! You can find other session recordings from TEC (including keynote!) here. Also, if you are based in Europe – TEC Europe in coming to Berlin in September and early bird [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 7, 2009
If you are at Microsoft TechEd next week there will be a few sessions I will be giving there: Birds-of-a-Feather,”Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?” Dmitry Sotnikov, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday May 12, room 501A – this one is IT-oriented discussion of risks and benefits of putting your IT systems into the cloud. PowerShell Ask [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]