Azure comes to DevOps Party!!

Microsoft announced Azure DevOps Services on September 10, 2018. It’s increasingly evident that DevOps has become increasingly critical to any team’s success. The services announced this month span the breadth of the development lifecycle to help developers ship software faster and with higher quality. With this announcement, it seems Microsoft will start phasing out the […]

4th January 2013

by Piyush Prakash in Blog

SharePoint 2010: Classic Mode Vs Claims Based Authentication

One of the setting that you need to pick when creating a web application in SharePoint 2010 is the Authentication type. The two options that you have are: Claims Based Authentication Classic Mode Authentication Classic Mode: This is no different from the traditional AD based authentication. One contraint with classic mode is that you cannot [...]

4th January 2013

by Piyush Prakash in Blog, Cloud

SharePoint 2013 Licensing Overview

For people who have been around SharePoint for a long time, one of the dreaded area to have an conversation with your upper management has been about SharePoint Licensing. I can say that IT managers will have few pleasant surprises in store when they try to get their heads around SharePoint 2013 Licensing model. For [...]

27th September 2012

by Piyush Prakash in Blog

Windows RT Vs WinRT vs Windows 8

One of the things that I was confused about in the last few hours, and I am confident that many more people are going to be confused about in next few months is the difference between "Windows RT" and WinRT. Here is the simple version: Windows RT: It's an OS. It's a variation of the [...]

22nd December 2011

by Piyush Prakash in Blog

Metro UI and Windows 8!!

I spent couple of hours this week trying to understand the Metro UI. While Microsoft is definitely betting big time on Metro UI, with it being incorporated in Windows Phone 7, Zune and most recently in Windows 8, there doesn't seem to be much information available on what it is, how a developer can benefit [...]

25th November 2011

by Piyush Prakash in Blog, Data & AI

SharePoint and BI : Better Together !!

I feel very motivated by the response to our last BI Capabilities of SharePoint webinar. My intuition is starting to turn into a belief that data analysis and management is going to gain significant momentum for two key reasons: Management Pressure: Upper and mid management will continue to be under pressure to show value by [...]

1st November 2011

by Piyush Prakash in Blog

De-mystifying Windows Azure AppFabric

There seems to lot of confusion about the Windows Azure AppFabric. Lot of it is primarily because of many people trying to over-sell the capabilities of Azure AppFabric based on the marketing collaterals published by Microsoft. Another big reason behind the confusion is the similarity in name of an entirely different product from Microsoft called [...]

12th September 2011

by Piyush Prakash in Blog

Technology Shown in Iron Man!

Recently I saw the Iron Man Series and I was amazed! The technology shown in the movie is just awesome. What I liked the most about this movie is that most of thing that they were showing is possible and may be available to all in future instead of showing such Technology which can never [...]

SharePoint 2010: Classic Mode Vs Claims Based Authentication

SharePoint 2013 Licensing Overview

Windows RT Vs WinRT vs Windows 8

Metro UI and Windows 8!!

SharePoint and BI : Better Together !!

De-mystifying Windows Azure AppFabric

Technology Shown in Iron Man!

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