Richard Seroter is a Solutions Architect for a leading biotechnology firm. He spent the first six years of his career working for two major IT consulting organizations, Accenture and Avanade. On his first engagement at Avanade, he was roped into working with a beta release of BizTalk Server 2000. From that point on, he remained actively involved with BizTalk Server and in 2005 joined Microsoft’s Southern California district as a BizTalk Technology Specialist. In 2007, Seroter accepted a job offer from one of his Microsoft customers where he remains today. In his current role, he architects systems within a diverse landscape of technologies, platforms and packaged applications. Richard maintains a blog of his exploits, pitfalls and musings at http://seroter.wordpress.com.
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Yesterday I was hanging out at the Microsoft office in Los Angeles for an
“Architecture Council” meeting on the new Cloud Computing platform. You
can find the slide materials on the Strategic Architecture Council blog.
Overall, a worthwhile session that you should attend if you get the chance in
your city. My favorite local evangelists were there, including presentations
from Woody Pewitt, Kevin Boyle and the delightful David Chou.
We discussed what Microsoft considers cloud computing, the trade-offs between
“on-premises” and cloud apps (e.g. on-premises apps have more control,
customizations vs. cloud apps that are cheaper but sacrifice control and
customization). lso liked the point that we shouldn’t see cloud apps as
simply current in-house apps that we shove to the cloud (ala people throwing
SOAP interfaces on existing APIs and claiming to ... (more)
Richard Seroter is a Solutions Architect for a leading biotechnology firm. He spent the first six years of his career working for two major IT consulting organizations, Accenture and Avanade. On his first engagement at Avanade, he was roped into working with a beta release of BizTalk Server 2000. From that point on, he remained actively involved with BizTalk Server and in 2005 joined Microsoft’s Southern California district as a BizTalk Technology Specialist. In 2007, Seroter accepted a job offer from one of his Microsoft customers where he remains today. In his current role, he architects systems within a diverse landscape of technologies, platforms and packaged applications. Richard maintains a blog of his exploits, pitfalls and musings at 
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