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Mastering Windows Azure Application Development

by Dmitry Yakovlev

Dmitry Yakovlev, Senior Vice President of DataArt, contributes a by-lined article to HPC in the Cloud, reviewing the existing cloud landscape and sharing his expert opinion on what .NET developers should focus on in order to master their skills in Windows Azure Application Development.

"In the years to come, cloud computing will take a substantial piece of the market from traditional deployment models. This implies growing demand for applications that can operate in a cloud environment, and for software engineers skilled in cloud computing technologies. Since commercial software development is driven by enterprises which prefer mainstream technologies, Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure are likely to be the two platforms of choice for software developers. Considering the fact that both platforms can host applications written in different programming languages, one should denote Java and .NET as primary development platforms for Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure respectively."

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Dmitry Stillermann: Dos and don'ts for building enterprise apps

In his by-lined article for TabTimes, Dmitry Stillermann, Vice President of Capital Markets at DataArt, discusses dos and don'ts for developing tablet enterprise applications, outlining business considerations, platform advantages, security issues and implementation costs.

"When does it make sense to switch to a tablet in a business scenario? And how much should you spend?

For internal business processes, tablet applications provide the most value for the staff involved in many external meetings... I can make a firm statement: tablet development does not have to be costly, provided that you know what you’re doing.

Vendors, not being heavily constrained by any legacy compatibility considerations, have used all the best ideas that the software industry has come up with during the last decade. Development tools are unbelievably efficient and application programming interfaces (APIs) are well designed and documented. ... Publishing, deploying and managing apps are less of a hassle than some will lead you to believe."

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Today’s Consumer Trends Reveal Tomorrow’s Mobile OS Winners

Denis Margolin, Vice President of Mobile Solutions at DataArt, contributed a by-lined article to Mobile Dev & Design magazine, which was highlighted as a featured Tutorial. The article discusses the split in mobile development for iOS, Android and WP7 smart phones, tablet wars and what to expect in 2012.

"The 2012 mobile marketplace is already looking like a noisy, crowded confluence of stakeholders. Given the amount of distraction it’s hard to understand where to look, what’s important, and what’s not. As a result, application developers tend to wait to be sure what they observe is a trend and not a random fluctuation.

Developers and publishers take about six months to react to changes in consumer demands. Then tack on the three to six months needed to develop an app and you’re facing almost a year of overhead between the motion in the consumer market and the observed change in the software market associated with it. Of all the new things we can expect for 2012, the decrease of diversion fads over sustainable developer trends is not one of them."

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2012 Cloud Forecast

Oleg Komissarov, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at DataArt, contributed a by-lined article to HPC in the Cloud.

2012 Cloud Forecast outlines key goals for software industry leaders as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS providers invest billions in infrastructure and enterprise leaders start building strategies of adoption of cloud technologies.

"Not surprisingly, cloud computing will remain a hot topic in 2012. Leading Platform-as-a-Service providers will keep investing billions in huge datacenters with megawatts of power capacity. Software-as-a-Service platform development will be a main goal for software and Internet industry leaders and enterprises will all weigh in on the best approaches for adoption versus adaption to cloud strategies. 2011 may have been cloud's fifth birthday, but in 2012, the six-year-old will start making a truly distinctive name for itself."

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7 Hot Mobile Trends for 2012

By Jeff Vance

"If 2011 was a tumultuous year, 2012 is shaping up to be even more chaotic," writes Jeff Vance of Datamation. "The inevitable invasion of smartphones and tablets into the enterprise will have CIOs scrambling to figure out BYOD solutions. Microsoft will finally start to challenge Apple and Android, and new types of mobile apps will start to emerge, such as context-aware apps and mobile wallets.

Denis Margolin, Vice President of Mobile Solutions at DataArt, shares his thoughts with Datamation on what trends will shape the mobile technology landscape in 2012 and offers the following insight: “Microsoft used the year [2011] to polish its OS and now WP7 is a mature operating system standing on par with Android and iOS. The early sign of changes to come is that leading players (HTC and Samsung) not only developed decent hardware for WP7 (Samsung Galaxy W, HTC Titan), but have also started to advertise it extensively,” Denis Margolin, VP of Mobile Solutions for DataArt, a software development firm, wrote to me in a recent email.

The Nokia partnership could also start bearing fruit. “The Lumia 710 is an example of a cheap, yet high-quality and capable smartphone that will do very well in the European market. It's much more responsive and better built then Android handsets with comparable price points,” Margolin argues.

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