webscale

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:

• Online Data Store:SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) -
• Restful Access:ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) + ADO.NET Entity Framework -

Interconnected Systems:

• Communications:BizTalk Connectivity Services -
• Data:Sync Framework -

Interconnected Devices:

• Data Sync:Live Mesh / Sync Framework -
• Offline Access:ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) + Sync Framework a.k.a (Astoria “Offline”) -

Front End Support:

• RIA Offering (plug-in):Silverlight -
• RIA Offering (JavaScript generation):Microsoft “Volta” -