Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Chipping away at my 15 mins of fame...

Last year I had the great fortune to be invited to participate in a Microsoft SDR (Software Design Review) event  in Redmond, WA. The focus of the review was the Microsoft cloud computing platform known as Windows Azure. As mentioned in previous posts, we are an early adopter of the Azure platform and moved all of our middleware and web applications into Azure early last year.

As a strong proponent of cloud computing in general, as well as the convergence of cloud computing and intelligent device networks in particular, I was absolutely thrilled and honored to participate in the Azure SDR process. This is an invitation-only club and only about 50 people from all over the world get to attend. Due to my NDA with Microsoft I cannot name names, but suffice it to say that there some real heavyweights from some of the biggest companies in the world in this little crowd - not to mention some of the more famous Microsoft personalities known to geeks like me worldwide. The 2 SDR events that I have attended so far have proven to be some of the most rewarding professional development experiences that I have yet encountered.

Late in January of this year I attended my second Azure SDR event and at one point during the 4 day session I was interviewed by the Microsoft technical media team known as Channel 9. This was a great experience as well and yesterday they published the interview along with a case study about Advanced Telemetry. Now, let me say that I was coming down with a head cold and as a result my voice was a little raspy. Whats more, I have done precious few on-camera interviews in my career and, as you will see, the lack of experience clearly shows.

Anyway, I thought it might be of interest to some of the folks that follow my blog but have never met me.

For some reason the video format is a little goofy on the case study link, so for a better version of the video alone you can go right to the Channel 9 outlet here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Out/Building-on-Azure-Advanced-Telemetry


The whole case study and video (upper right corner) can be accessed here:


Enjoy.