Report from Microsoft PDC – Codename “Dallas”

I´m currently at PDC in Los Angeles, it is heavy focus on the shift towards the cloud and spicically Windows Azure. From a Information Management and Business Perspective, the new Windows Azure components “Dallas” is extremely cool and will give us a platform where providers and consumers of data can meet. This will be the AppStore for data. Microsoft will take care of billing and also do some quality assurance of the data provided.

Data can be structured, unstructured data, BLOB, images, videos and so on. The really big question is how we are going to use these amazing capabilities. Some obvious usages is distribution of demografics, company information, such as DUNS and all sorts of statistics.

Take a look at: http://blogs.msdn.com/dallas/default.aspx for more information on “Dallas”.

What do you see we can build to our clients using this cool technology?