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Our Next Meeting

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Cloud Computing and Microsoft


Presented by Jeff Sanders

The concept of “Cloud Computing” has gained significant attention in the last year as a popular and prevalent solution to horizontal scalability obstacles. Computing resources owned by third parties are made available for purchase to increase capacity, while applications and platforms are architected and designed for this infrastructure paradigm. Microsoft has remained rather quiet on the subject, allowing competitors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, SAP, and Oracle to make significant progress in established their foothold. However, the Redmond-giant has also given some glimpses behind the curtain on its “Oslo” wave of technologies to be unveiled formally this October at PDC. We’ll discuss the “Pros and Cons” of Cloud Computing, the Internet Service Bus, UML and modeling paradigms, BizTalk, SOA, Software as a Service, a 74 acre data center, and a bevy of other technologies and concepts that will provide insight and direction into the future of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Presented by Jeff Sanders - Jeff Sanders is a Systems Architect with Software Consortium, Inc., a Microsoft Partner based in the Mid-Atlantic region. Jeff's interests lay in design patterns of message-based architectures and connected systems design, EAI, workflow, BizTalk, WCF, and reducing complexity. Jeff speaks at regional and local user groups, and consults as an Enterprise Architect, Technical Lead and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He holds an MCPD:EA, MCSD for .NET, MCTS in BizTalk 2006 and 2004, and Microsoft Dynamics Certified CRM Master.

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