Omnext was part of a Dutch trade delegation visiting the New York CloudExpo 2011.
Here is a link to a great article by Theo Loth (coordinator EuroCloud Nederland) about the event: omnext - cloudexpo 2011.pdf (in Dutch).

If your looking to find out more about Omnext and how Source2VALUE can help improve the ROI of your software development investments, then visit www.omnext.net or talk to Jaco and Andre at the 2011 European Outsourcing Summit in Madrid, Spain.

You are here by invited for the Augusta Developer Event on December 16th in Augusta, ME.

Location:
41 Anthony Ave
Augusta, ME.

Date:
December 16th, 2010.

Time:
Everyone is welcome starting at 9am, sessions will start at 9:30am.
Lunch will be at 12pm, pizza will be provided.
Sessions will resume at 12:30pm.
Door prizes will be drawn at 3:45pm.
End of event at 4pm.

Speakers:
We have two confirmed speakers at this time:
- Chris Bowen, developer evangelist for Microsoft and friend of the Maine Developer Network
- Mark Blomsma, software architect for Develop-One and co-organizer of the Maine Developer Network

Sessions:
The exact session descriptions are still a little up in the air,
but we expect to cover the following topics:
- ASP.NET MVC 3
- C# 4.0
- Silverlight
- Cloud Computing
- Windows Azure
- SQL Azure
- HTML 5
- Windows Phone 7
And most likely some more topics, but we're still working on the exact agenda
(which will be posted on the site as soon as we have it).

Register:
Please let us know if you plan to attend (so we can ensure seating and pizzas!):
http://www.maine-devnet.org/Home/SignUpForEvent.aspx

Last week at the BAND user group meeting in Bangor me and Chris Bowen had a little unresolved discussion about how SQL Azure manages backups. Today I found (thanks to Ben Rees) a segment of a presentation that was done at PDC’09 by Dave Campbell and Tony Petrossian. I grabbed the screen that covers what is and what will be available when it comes to backup.

1. Automatic failover. Every SQL Server instance will be configured for automatic failover. This is part of the standard service, no additional charge.
2. BCP, SSIS or other custom tools. Today (3/1/2010) there is only one way to create backups and that is pull the data to a local backup. You end up paying for bandwidth usage.
3. Database clone. A on demand backup which creates an (almost) instant replica of your database. Useful before doing schema changes and you could easily schedule the creation of a daily clone if you wish to do so. You pay for the storage. This feature should become available 1H 2010.
4. Continuous Backup. Backups run as specified by user where you will be able to restore the database to a specific point in time. Pricing not available yet. This feature should become available 2H 2010.

Update: Original video is here.