Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Open Government Data, Complexity vs. Usefulness

Posted on July 13, 2009 by oliver

On the flight yesterday I was thinking through the various models that we are seeing emerge for open government data. As with most computer systems you can begin considering a model that should help when it comes to thinking about … Continue reading →

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Open data – seeds of a second eGov revolution

Posted on July 10, 2009 by oliver

The discussion around open data is gathering pace in several countries around the world, and the more I see of that discussion the more convinced I am that we’re watching the second significant revolution within government that has been driven … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing in Plan English

Posted on April 10, 2009 by oliver

Steven Quezada pointed me to this video, originally put together by a cloud computing platform provider called GoGrid, a really straightforward explanation of cloud computing and how to make use of it. Sphere: Related Content

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Two steps forward for Azure

Posted on March 25, 2009 by oliver

Mix‘09 was held in Las Vegas last week and as usual there were all sorts of announcements relating to both our platform and our developer tools. A couple of them were Azure related and worth a mention here. The first … Continue reading →

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Azure SDKs, OpenID, Samba, ODF, DII, SAML 2.0, AMQP

Posted on October 29, 2008 by oliver

I’ve posted extensively about our various interop related efforts over the last year or so, highlighting many of the big steps that we have made in this area, each one incrementally making us a more interoperable platform than before and … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure, the sky is the limit

Posted on October 28, 2008 by oliver

We’re holding our Professional Developers Conference in LA this week, and along the way there are a few really significant announcements coming from our executive staff. Monday saw the first public unvieling of the CTP for “Azure”, our cloud services platform. … Continue reading →

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