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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