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" -

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