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Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.

Forrester: Building Capability Maps For Business-IT Alignment

Many architects are initiating their business architecture (BA) programs by developing business...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/30/2010

Discontinuing the Microsoft Infrastructure and Solutions Architect Certification

Executive summary: · The Infrastructure and Solutions architect certifications offering are...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/30/2010

Architect Forum: Year of the Cloud, We are all in!

On 12th May we are organizing a new Architect Forum related to Cloud Computing with as key note...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/28/2010

AzureScope: Benchmarking and Guidance for Windows Azure

The Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research Labs now has a web site, in Azure of course,...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

Dynamic Scaling Windows Azure

A key benefit of cloud computing is the ability to add and remove capacity as and when it is...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh for Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 RTM

  We are pleased to announce a Beta 2 Refresh for Windows Server AppFabric.  This build...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

Enterprise Library 5.0 Released

Microsoft patterns & practices announced availability of the next major release of Microsoft...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Configuring Monitoring Data

Windows Server AppFabric has extensive monitoring capabilities, which go beyond simply writing...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

ARCast.TV - High Value Asset Tracking with Bing Maps, Silverlight and Windows 7

OuterLink, based in Lowell, MA, builds high value asset tracking and communication technology....

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/27/2010

SEInsight: A (Re)Introduction to Patterns

The recent discussions about Software + Services and Cloud computing have in my mind reemphasized...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/26/2010

endpoint.tv - Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric

When developing your services, you have the option of working with the ASP.NET development server...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/26/2010

endpoint.tv - AppFabric Dashboard Overview

AppFabric has this great new Dashboard that gives you insight into what is happening with your...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/26/2010

it’s learning Adopts Microsoft Platform for Cloud Educational Services

Some really great news just in from Europe – this week Microsoft and it’s learning, an international...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/26/2010

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM

I’m delighted to share the news that we have released SQL Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing. ...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/25/2010

Private Clouds with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

During the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 some announcement has been made regarding our story in...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/23/2010

New Silverlight 4 Training Kit Available

We’ve just released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/23/2010

Microsoft Connects Office To Facebook

Microsoft on Wednesday gave a gift to Facebook users: the ability to create and share Microsoft...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/23/2010

From Paper to the Cloud - Epson's Cloud App for Printer, Scanner and Windows Azure

An interesting case is presented at channel9: The team at Epson Imaging Technology Center (EITC) has...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/23/2010

ARCast.TV - Using jQuery to Improve User Experience in Web Applications

David Hoerster, Director of Technology for policyIQ at Resources Global Professionals and the...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/22/2010

Cell Phones are for more then just making calls…

Source: https://cellphones.org/cell-phone-features/

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/22/2010

How Not to Build a Cloud

Interesting article about building or not building a cloud. There are a few rules for what not to do...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/21/2010

Cutter Consortium: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!

It has been painful to watch the perennial angst of the CIO community. Each year, each conference,...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/21/2010

Tech Days 2010 Sessions Available Online

All sessions at Tech Days 2010 have been recorded and are available online at...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/21/2010

McKinsey: The Internet of Things

More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/16/2010

Managing Compliance in the Cloud

Interesting article related to dealing with IT management complexities involved in using and running...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/15/2010

Deep Dive AppFabric Training

CODit invited Jon Flanders to give a deep-dive training on Windows Server AppFabric (code name...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/14/2010

ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration

There are millions (if not billions) of lines of VB6 code out there. For many businesses, they need...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/14/2010

ARCast.TV - Improving SharePoint Development with WCF Services

In this interview, Sahil Malik, a SharePoint expert and Microsoft MVP, shares with Zhiming Xue,...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/14/2010

New Architect Journal Released

Two weeks ago a new issue of The Architecture Journal was published . It’s themed on Architecture...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/14/2010

Availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4

As announced on S. Somasegar’s blog, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are now available for...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 04/12/2010

ARCast.TV - Behind the Cloud::How Microsoft Deploys Azure

One of the most impressive elements on the Microsoft PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/29/2010

The Next Web Now – Information that matters from MIX 2010

MIX 2010 has been concluded last week and it showed that Microsoft is the only company that has a...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/29/2010

IDC Sees Cloud Market Maturing Quickly

Interesting article how IDC sees the whole cloud story. An extract: The Microsoft of the cloud Gens...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/25/2010

Cloud Cover Episode 5 - MIX Edition

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud with news, features, tips, and...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/24/2010

Cloud Cover Episode 4 - CDN

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/24/2010

Architecting Solutions with Microsoft Azure AppFabric

In this episode, Damon Squires, principal architect at RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue where in a...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/23/2010

ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Now Available

ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported framework that enables developers to quickly build...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/21/2010

ARCast.TV - IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine, Paul...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/21/2010

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric LABS Environment

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric team has released the AppFabric LABS environment. This is a new...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/15/2010

ARCast.TV - How Chyron Uses Silverlight for TV Graphics

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/09/2010

Cloud Cover Episode 3 - Worker Role Endpoints

Join Ryan and Steve this week as they cover the Microsoft cloud.  You can follow and interact...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/08/2010

Patterns & Practices: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control

Just released by Patterns and Practices. A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control Imagine...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/07/2010

Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group

An interesting interview as part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/07/2010

Microsoft on Cloud Computing: We are all in.

Today, Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, spoke to a group of students and faculty at the University of...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/04/2010

Keeping the Messenger Service Running—On a Massive Scale

A couple of weeks ago I posted an interesting article about hotmail architecture. This week a new...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/04/2010

endpoint.tv - Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2

Last week we announced Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2. A new video is available showing how to...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/04/2010

ARCast.TV - Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects!

The art of questioning yourself… Are software architects necessary? Nobody denies the need for...

Author: Bart Vande Ghinste Date: 03/04/2010

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