Microsoft Embracing the Cloud

Microsoft has a number of solutions that appear to form a very strong offering for enterprise class web 2.0 applications:

Web Scale:

  • Scale Out:
    Microsoft Utility Computing Platform (a.k.a Red Dog)
    Details appear sketchy at the moment, but it will be interesting to see how this shapes up.
  • Scaled Caching:
    Microsoft "Velocity" - Improving performance and scalability by caching objects. Cache is distributed across machines and is fault tolerant, can scale out by adding more machines.

Security:

  • Single Sign On: Prevents new users to your application from having to register and remember new user credentials. Allows for pass-through security from enterprise users through a federated trust model:
    • Development API:
      Microsoft "Zermatt" - Single API to easily work with user claims based identity (Federated Identity) Should make the mess of dealing with various credentials and sources (protocols & tokens) easy in the same manner WCF has done for network development.
    • Online Service:
      BizTalk Identity Services -

Cloud Data:

Interconnected Systems:

Interconnected Devices:

Front End Support:

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