devLink Selects SDS to Speak at Annual Event.
Strategic Data Systems (SDS) has been selected to speak at devLINK Technical Conference 2011, August 17-19.
devLink is a highly attended event in Chattanooga, TN, focused on improving the skills of the IT community. iT featurES some of the top industry experts, with sessions for Developers, Project Manager, IT Pro and beyond. devLink is not only about technical know-how, but about building relationships with others interested in expanding their horizons.
FaceBook Fans: Check-out Mike Wood's Microsoft Cloud Power Page.
Mike Wood, Cloud Specialist at Strategic Data Systems, is a featured Cloud Expert on the Microsoft Cloud Power Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mypage/171778879523030?sk=app_206041179421115
The Cloud Power page is a helpful collection of video interviews and blog postings. While you are there, be sure to view Mike's video interview: Windows Azure Increases Productivity.
SDS Application, GreyBox, Featured in Top 7 Tools for Microsoft Azure.
An Azure hosted application built by Strategic Data Systems is featured in CodeGuru.com article, Top 7 Tools for Microsoft Azure, authored by Brian Prince, Architect Evangelist with Microsoft.
CodeMash 2011 Cloud Workshop
For those of you who joined Rob Gillen, Mike Collier, Brian Prince and I today for the Azure and Amazon Cloud Workshop, thanks for coming! For those of you who couldn’t make it I’ve posted our presentations and resources on my SkyDrive.
Windows Azure Boot Camp Continues in 2011
Microsoft is continuing the road show of Windows Azure Boot Camps in 2011.
The Windows Azure Boot Camps are two-day events focused on getting you hands-on experience deploying applications to the cloud. I’ve been a trainer at several of these events and the people I’ve talked to about them afterwards have all said they obtained a lot of good information from them.
The boot camps cover the Azure Platform and how to leverage the cloud.
For Azure Boot Camps in my area (and where I will be instructing) we have:
SDS MVP Talks About Azure Community at PDC 2010
Azure MVP Michael Wood with Strategic Data Systems and Microsoft Evangelist Brian Prince to discuss Windows Azure and the community. This interview was conducted at the MVP pre-PDC 2010 event in Redmond, WA. View it at:
Moving to the Cloud - View Interview with SDS Cloud Specialist
Cloud Computing is a hot topic these days. Mike Wood cautions that there are questions we should ask ourselves about our applications, before deciding whether to move them to the cloud. See Mike's comments here:
Thread Context Switching Isn’t Just Bad for Processors.
As most developers know, a context switch is when a processor changes out the thread it is working on for another. Usually this is in response to the fact that the thread they were working is waiting on something, so it can switch off to a thread that has some immediate work. By doing this we can greatly increase the throughput of a system. But what happens if we have tons of threads and constantly have to switch? Well, that’s not exactly ideal because it means we have to load up the data dealing with that thread, fig