Gianpaolo's blog
thoughts of a dotcom refugee happily expatriated at Microsoft
SaaS For Your Ears
A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure to sit down with Fred and Ron and record an architecture...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 07/18/2006
Business continutity planning key for SaaS success
Business continuity planning will get bigger with SaaS… Here is a (sad) proof:...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 07/14/2006
SaaS Powerpoint Presentation and WW Partner Conference
Yesterday, I presented a SaaS overview at WSA. For those interested, you can find the slides I used...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/30/2006
Multi-tenant Data Architecture Whitepaper
Our second whitepaper in our architecting multi-tenant applications series has just been released on...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/29/2006
Ballmer's SaaS-Y plan
In case you had any doubts that Microsoft is fully behind Software as a Service: Article here
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/22/2006
SaaS Architecture Guidance on https://msdn.microsoft.com/isv/
Some of the content we have been working on, is now available on https://msdn.microsoft.com/isv/....
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/06/2006
SaaS Guidance: not only for ISVs
In the last few months, I have been talking to a lot of different companies about SaaS. Initially,...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 05/30/2006
Chatting with Diego about SaaS
The other days I did one of these cool chat interviews with Diego Dagum, guess what we talked about?...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 05/13/2006
Blogging from Word 2007
I installed Office 2007 beta 2 today… I’ve primarily been playing with Outlook 2007 and PowerPoint...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 05/13/2006
Analysts (finally?!) in tune with our view of the world?
Today I was forwarded this AMR research paper A couple of interesting sentences, that I believe I...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 05/09/2006
First SaaS architecture guidance paper on MSDN
It's been more than a month since my last post... this was due to some well deserved vacation :) and...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 05/04/2006
SaaS value proposition for the buyer
In the last few weeks I have been asked many times what the value proposition of SaaS (for the...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 03/18/2006
SaaS Simple Maturity Model
A few days ago, Fred and I hosted a BoF at the OpSource Saas Summit. It was a great discussion. Most...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 03/06/2006
Hava Data Will Travel (don't ask me, ask Roger)
If you have been reading my recent posts, you must have noticed that I have been talking about data....
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/28/2006
Multi-Tenancy, metadata driven everything and you are my #1 customer
In my recent discussion about SaaS, I get often asked what multi tenancy means. Here is my "current"...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/27/2006
After Data in SOA, Data in the context of Internet Scale app
There isn't a day now that I don't see some emails/posts/blogs on data related issues. A few days...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/25/2006
gianpaolo's hierarchy of software needs
Most of us know Maslow's hierarchy of human needs As its name suggest, Maslow's pyramid illustrates...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/24/2006
Gartner folks must read my blog :)
A few days ago I bloged about the importance of data in the context of Connected Systems (SOA) Today...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/23/2006
Wanna talk SaaS?
On Thursday March 2, Fred and I will be animating a BoF (Birds of a Feather) on SaaS Architecture at...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/22/2006
Blue Ocean Strategy and Architecture
I have started reading Blue Ocean Strategy ; I had seen Renee presenting her book here at Microsoft...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/21/2006
SaaS Architecture Guidance: coming soon to a theater near you!
It is no news that there is an increasing interest on Software as a Service (SaaS); some would even...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/19/2006
Data in the context of Connected Systems (a.k.a. SOA)
Last Monday, Roger Wolter joined my team from the SQL Server product team. Roger is well known in...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/18/2006
1 day 1 blog: as simple as that
From now on, a simple rule: 1 day, 1 blog. If he can do it, so can I. :) Some entries will be good,...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/17/2006
Architect T-Shirt anyone?
Harry just introduced DevHawk Designs if you are an architect and looking for a T-Shirt, you might...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/17/2006
Longhorn
After almost 18 months in Seattle, I finally managed to spend a week-end in Whistler. It was...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/12/2006
1000 emails
I was archiving my emails and I realized that I have sent just over 1000 emails since Jan 1 2006...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/08/2006
SOA, six blind men and an elephant
The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant teaches a great lesson: although the six blind men in...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/06/2006
The architect greatest trick?!
Flipping channels in my hotel room, I caught a re-run of "The Usual Suspects" just when Kevin Spacey...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 01/26/2006
is there a "long tail" in solutions architecture?
It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000. I did not come up with it, I read it here as part of...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 01/01/2006
Does your computer play classical music at boot time?
It's been around since 1997 but I have to confess that I didn't know that... From...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 12/29/2005
Business or Technology?
Today I took my parents (visiting from Europe) and my kids to Redmond Town Center. While they were...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 12/27/2005
gianpaolo's blog: take 3
After going public on July 12 2004 and a fresh start on June 1 2005 which did not last long, here is...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 12/27/2005
Pillar 2: Identity and Access
To better illustrate this pillar I will use the registration at TechEd as an analogy. When you go to...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 07/08/2005
5 pillars get high interest @ TechEd Europe
Based on TechEd Europe pre conference attendees' votes, my session (ARC315: the 5 Pillars of...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 07/04/2005
Pillar 1: Messaging
> In the next following days I plan to write a series of short articles What I meant was:...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 07/01/2005
5 Pillars of Connected Systems
TechEd was for John and I the "5 pillars of Connected Systems coming out” party, as we both talked...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/12/2005
Developer - Architect divide?
Here are 2 sample feedbacks I received from my session at TechEd 2 days ago. 8 8 8 9 8 This was a...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/11/2005
Architect position at Microsoft Corp
Want to contribute to the 5 pillars of Connected Systems? The Windows Server Evangelism team in...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/08/2005
5 pillars of Connected Systems
Today Paul Flessner in his keynote at TechEd talked about the evolution of applications from the...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/08/2005
Orlando here I come...
SRV205 powerpoint presentation? checkx64 demo? checkx64 movie? checkWS-Management demo?...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/04/2005
A fresh start...
After almost 1 year since my first post (and only a very abysmal 3 posts overall) I decided to have...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 06/02/2005
Of course 64 bit is inevitable.
Volker posted that 64bit is inevitable. A few people commented that they weren't so sure... I for...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 02/11/2005
the pimcast is born
As you can see with 1 post (2 with this one), 1 comment and 1 trackback I’m far from the top of the...
Author: gianpaolo Date: 12/12/2004