Windows Azure Online Workshop

Microsoft is offering a free, two-hour online workshop for developing apps for Windows Azure.  The course includes a full access Azure account for 2 weeks.  Seems like a good opportunity to learn how to develop apps for Microsoft’s cloud platform. If you are in the Boston area, there is also a one-day event on May [...]

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R&D IT Best Practices for Growing Small/Mid-Sized Biopharmas

The Mass Technology Leadership Council put on a round table discussion on best practices for small/mid sized biopharmas at Microsoft NERD on April 14.  The agenda is shown below As smaller biopharma companies grow and mature into larger organizations, they need to transition from relatively ad hoc, spreadsheet heavy, lightly supported R&D IT environments to [...]

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Head in the Cloud with Windows Azure

Microsoft hosted a developer conference in Boston today.  I think for the most part, you get when you pay for, and the $99 price of this event told me it would probably be more marketing than technology.  But it’s always good to get out and hear what’s going on and talk with other developers. There [...]

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