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Last week I had the pleasure of visiting New Orleans to present at TechEd North America. My session, Patterns of Cloud Integration, was recorded and is now available on Channel9 for everyone to view. I made the bold (or “reckless”, depending on your perspective) decision to show off as many technology...

Previously known as Azure EAI EDI Labs, the public preview launched today. I am especially excited about the EDI B2B solution in this new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Some of the tutorial links on Microsoft’s website are still being sorted out, but you can start with the Windows Azure...

I’m flying to New Orleans to speak at Tech Ed North America, and reading a book called Everything is Obvious (* Once You Know the Answer) and it mentioned the difficulty of making macro-level assumptions based on characteristics applied to a sample population. For some reason my mind jumped to the challenge...

The Windows Azure EAI Bridges are dead. Long live BizTalk Services! Initially released last year as a “lab” project, the Service Bus EAI Bridges were a technology for connecting cloud and on-premises endpoints through an Azure-hosted broker. This technology has been rebranded (“Windows Azure BizTalk...

Hi everybody, Mick’s Breeze announce a great thing on his blog. Azure will sooner have BizTalk as an application service. Its name simply BizTalk Service. For the moment only customer who joined the preview programs can use it. I hope they deliver it as soon as possible : What can we do with this...

In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely...

In my latest Pluralsight video training course – Patterns of Cloud Integration – I addressed application and data integration scenarios that involve cloud endpoints. In the “shared database” module of the course, I discussed integration options where parties relied on a common (cloud) data repository...

A couple months back, the folks at Salesforce.com reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in helping them beef up their .NET-oriented content. Given that I barely say “no” to anything – and this sounded fun – I took them up on the offer. I ended up contributing three articles that covered: ...

It’s gotten easy to publish web applications to the cloud, but the last thing you want to do is establish unique authentication schemes for each one. At some point, your users will be stuck with a mountain of passwords, or, end up reusing passwords everywhere. Not good. Instead, what about extending...

Our new Tellago Technology Update webinar will take place next Tuesday and the topic couldn't be more exciting. Building cloud integration solutions using integration iPaaS technologies. Here are the details: Title: A New Way to do Integration: Introducing...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 was recently released and it includes many new features that make developing and deploying for BizTalk considerably more effecient. There are also many new features which expand on the already vast capabilities of a BizTalk Solution. In this post I will go over the new features...

I’ve been hard at work on a new Pluralsight video course and it’s now live and available for viewing. This course, Patterns of Cloud Integration, takes you through how application and data integration differ when adding cloud endpoints. The course highlights the 4 integration styles/patterns introduced...

Today, Microsoft made a number of nice updates to their Visual Studio tools and templates. On thing pointed out in Scott Hanselman’s blog post about it (and Scott Guthrie’s post as well), was the update that lets developers publish ASP.NET Web Site projects to WIndows Azure Web Sites. Given that I haven...

In this series of blog posts, I’m looking at how well some leading cloud providers have embedded their management tools within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In the first post of the series, I walked through the Windows Azure management capabilities in Visual Studio 2012. This evaluation looks at the...

In a couple weeks, I’m off to Amsterdam and Gothenburg to speak at a pair of events. First, on January 22nd I’ll be in Amsterdam at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME. There will be a handful of speakers, and I’ll be presenting on the Patterns of Cloud Integration. It should be a...

2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in Engineering. It was a blast visiting Australia to talk about integration technologies, going to Microsoft...

Now that cloud providers are maturing and stabilizing their platforms, we’re seeing better and better dev tooling get released. Three major .NET-friendly cloud platforms (Windows Azure, AWS, and Iron Foundry) have management tools baked right into Visual Studio, and I thought it’d be fun to compare them...

Every week Tellago shares the biggest news in the enterprise software world with our customers. I thought I start sharing the list in this blog as well starting today :) Enterprise Software News and Insights: Here are some of the biggest headlines of...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Besides this blog, I still write regularly for InfoQ.com as well in as a pair of blogs for my employer, Tier 3. It’s always a fun exercise for me to figure out what content should go where, but I do my best to spread it around. Anyway, in the past couple weeks, I’ve written a [...] Blog Post by: Richard...

Scott Guthrie announced a handful of changes to the Windows Azure Portal, and among them, was the long-awaited migration of Service Bus resources from the old-and-busted Silverlight Portal to the new HTML hotness portal. You’ll find some really nice additions to the Service Bus Queues and Topics. In...

Greetings and welcome to the 43rd interview in my series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technologies” domain. This month, I’m happy to have Hammad Rajjoub with us. Hammad is an Architect Advisor for Microsoft, former Microsoft MVP, blogger, published author, and you can find him on Twitter...

Last week I was at Dreamforce (the Salesforce.com mega-conference) promoting my recently released Pluralsight course, Force.com for Developers. Salesforce.com made a HUGE effort to focus on developers this year and I had a blast working at the Pluralsight booth in the high-traffic “Dev Zone.” I would...

Last week I read Cloudonomics by Joe Weinman and found it to be the most complete, well-told explanation of cloud computing’s value proposition that I’ve ever read. Besides the content itself, I was blown away by the depth of research and deft use of analogies that Weinman used to state his case. The...

Welcome to the 42nd interview in my series of talks with thought leaders in the “connected systems” space. This month, we have Shan McArthur who is the Vice President of Technology for software company Adxstudio, a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM, blogger and Windows Azure enthusiast. You can find him...

Donnie Berkholz of the analysis firm RedMonk recently posted an article about observing tech trends by monitoring book sales. He saw a resurgence of interest in Java, a slowdown of interest in Microsoft languages (except PowerShell), upward movement in Python, and declining interesting in SQL. While...