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Azure technical events and briefings in the UK - 2018
Our technical team run regular Azure workshops and briefings for software companies looking to...
Date: 12/04/2017
Keep Calm and Carry On Hacking
Last week our team hosted 15 software companies at our Reading offices for one of our new “Design...
Date: 11/30/2017
Azure Technical briefings out about in the UK
Our technical team have been out and about across the UK meeting with software companies, talking...
Date: 09/18/2017
Calendar of UK based Azure workshops from our tech team
Your Journey to the Microsoft Azure Cloud - A Briefing for Software Solution Businesses - Roadshow...
Date: 08/25/2017
Register for Microsoft UK ‘Code With’ Azure hacks 2017/18
Our Microsoft UK One Commercial Partner team plan to run a new series of “code with“ hacks over the...
Date: 08/24/2017
Microsoft Azure helps pet technology startup PitPat
If you are a fan of the BBC TV series Dragon’s Den, then you may remember PitPat, who featured in...
Date: 08/17/2017
Getting up and going with Windows Containers on Microsoft Azure
If you are reading this, then you are probably someone with a Microsoft Windows background, who has...
Date: 08/04/2017
Our team go out on the road to talk about Azure
Our Microsoft team are back out on the road in the UK this summer talking techie about all things...
Date: 08/01/2017
Data, data, and more data – How and Where to store it on Azure?
A while back Amy Nicholson and I kicked off TechDays Online with our session “Data, data, data – How...
Date: 04/07/2017
TechDays Online: 20th–22nd February, 2017
Come and join me on 20th, 21st and 22 February for the first Microsoft MVP led TechDays Online of...
Date: 02/09/2017
Choosing the right Azure IoT Hub Edition
For our Band on the Run IoT project for the Microsoft Band, we use Azure IoT Hub as the ingestion...
Date: 04/12/2016
Microsoft Band on the Run - the architecture
Hot on the heels of our session at the Wearable technology Show 2016 #wts2016, we decided to sort...
Date: 03/24/2016
See Band on the Run @ Wearable Technology Show, March 16 2016, London
If you want to see Band on the Run being demonstrated live, then come along to the Wearable...
Date: 03/07/2016
Moving to Azure IoT Hub
When Pete and I started building our “Band on the Run” project, we used Azure Event Hubs as the...
Date: 02/26/2016
Microsoft Band “On the Run”
For the last 6 months or so, since the first version of the Microsoft Band shipped, Peter Daukintis...
Date: 02/25/2016
David Gristwood - latest bio
Time to update my bio: David Gristwood works as technical evangelist at Microsoft in the UK where he...
Date: 02/22/2016
Orleans Goes Open Source
Back in July 2013, the “Orleans” team announced a small early adopter program, then at Build 2014...
Date: 12/12/2014
Age of Ascent - An epic space game on Microsoft Azure
Earlier this year I, along with other members of the Microsoft TED team and the UK Microsoft...
Date: 11/05/2014
Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans”
Back in July 2013, I announced on my blog “Orleans”, Windows Azure and Halo 4” that the Orleans team...
Date: 04/03/2014
“Latent Data” – the secret sauce of the Internet of Things
Part two of Ewan’s IoT series is now live, and focuses on the all important topic of data – check it...
Date: 03/25/2014
Cloud Gaming Summit – 26th & 27th March 2014, London
I will be presenting at the Cloud Gaming Summit, a two-day free event that ukie in association with...
Date: 03/24/2014
What is this “Internet of Things” thing, anyway?
My colleague Ewan has started posting about the “Internet of Things”, a topic that he and I, and...
Date: 03/18/2014
“Orleans”, Windows Azure and Halo 4
My colleagues Hoop Somuah and Sergey Bykov have released a new video, first shown in one of...
Date: 07/25/2013
Cloud + Apps Gaming – what’s it all about?
Windows Azure as a Cloud Gaming Platform – half day technical briefing, Monday 1st July, 2pm, London...
Date: 06/03/2013
Interested in exploring how Windows Azure and cloud computing could be used in designing and developing computer games?
If so, why not visit one of our technical briefings? These one day technical briefings on the...
Date: 04/19/2013
The Big Data Hackathon – April 13&14, 2013 - London
The Big Data Hackathon takes places at the Hub Westminster, 80 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4TE, on the...
Date: 03/21/2013
Great article - Inside Windows Azure SQL Database
Our team still get lots of questions from customers and partners about “SQL Azure” (aka “Windows...
Date: 03/19/2013
More conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure
It's always a pleasure to converse with my old friend and colleague, David Chappell...
Date: 11/19/2012
Windows Azure Open Platform Services (OSS) Summit - Paris, France - Dec 4, 2012
Learn more about how Windows Azure has helped companies realize the true value of the cloud. ...
Date: 11/02/2012
Windows Azure Media Services Lab, Nov 20th – 22nd 2012, Reading – Open for invites
Windows Azure Media Services in an exciting new platform that offers the flexibility,...
Date: 11/02/2012
Microsoft Media Platform Summit, 5th September 2012, Amsterdam
Video delivery is consuming an ever larger percentage internet traffic, from user generated...
Date: 08/01/2012
MLS Using Windows Azure in Education
MLS is the largest supplier of library automation software to schools and colleges in the UK, and...
Date: 07/17/2012
Its miiCard, and its on Windows Azure
I have know James Varga for several years, and he has been involved in some incredibly interesting...
Date: 06/28/2012
Shoothill’s “FloodAlerts” on Facebook has been selected as a winner in the Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – and it runs on Windows Azure
The Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – Winners - Innovation in enterprise - Shoothill...
Date: 06/06/2012
“Free: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing Is Changing the Face of Business”
One of the best books I have read recently is “Free: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing...
Date: 05/29/2012
Catch up with our team at the UK Windows Azure Conference on the 22nd June, 2012 in London
Put 22nd June in your diary if you are interested in Windows Azure, and if you want to hear the...
Date: 05/29/2012
Real World Windows Azure: LinkFresh Cloud QA – An application that helps businesses deliver safe, fresh, high quality food
One of the best things about my work with Windows Azure is when a system actually goes live, so our...
Date: 05/11/2012
An interesting Windows Azure architectural discussion – synchronizing multiple nodes
One of the interesting architectural discussions that comes up when designing highly scalable...
Date: 11/29/2011
The many ages of mobile application development
It’s great to see one of the partners I have worked with, bbits, who developed the excellent Windows...
Date: 11/29/2011
Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012
A few days ago, Eric Nelson and I locked down the dates for www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk which is...
Date: 11/28/2011
Video case study - Newgrove, Orpheus, advertising and Windows Azure
I met up with one of my UK ISV partners, Newgrove to find out more about their new cloud based...
Date: 11/08/2011
Video case study - Media Science, Big Data and Windows Azure
In my latest video case study for Channel 9, I talk to Media Science about how they have used the...
Date: 11/08/2011
Registration for Windows Azure BizSpark Camp, Friday 30th September, London, Now open….
Our team are hosting another Windows Azure BizSpark Camp in London, on Friday 30th September, 2011....
Date: 09/06/2011
So, Who Else Is Using Windows Azure…?
If you are in the process of evaluating the Windows Azure platform, one of the questions you are may...
Date: 08/19/2011
Leading Case Management Vendor, Singularity, Announces Success on Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
Our team do all our work with partners who are the early movers, those who see the cloud, and in...
Date: 07/25/2011
Autoscaling Windows Azure Applications
The whole area of autoscaling Windows Azure applications comes up as a regular topic in discussions...
Date: 06/22/2011
Businesses running on Windows Azure–TechDays 2011
The Windows Azure Platform went live in January 2010 which means that in the UK we already have some...
Date: 06/20/2011
Mind the GAP: Alert system saves lives
Active Web Solutions, one of the UK partners that has been working with Windows Azure since before...
Date: 06/09/2011