IT Architect Regional Conference in Minneapolis on November 6-7, 2010 is the one not that far from Chicago, IL to attend. Should be interesting for an Architect to get a sense of the heartbeat of the latest innovations in distributed architectures.

My posts lately are rather short, but I want to keep 'em informative and would like to move closer to the technology track that I'm working on. Here is the Windows Azure Guidance document, which represents the holystic view on the Microsoft Cloud's vision and the architecture decisions behind the cloud-based applications - http://wag.codeplex.com/releases/view/45438

Without further adeu, Hotmail goes into social world of networking, keeping up with our contacts and sharing information. More on Windows Live site here. Interesting trend which shows that nowadays the systems are more like hybrid connected and information organizing systems.

If you're developing for Microsoft Cloud Services, this might be of interest for the evaluation of the performance and Best Practices concerning running applications in the Cloud:

http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx