Yesterday I attended the SQL Server Data Services - Software Design Review event in the Microsoft mountain view campus. Thanks for Ryan Dunn who accepted my invitation to attend this as this is only for selected people.

I had a real good time not only was able to understand on how SSDS is built on top of SQL Server, it was pleasure meeting few key folks like:

  • Istvan Cseri, Architect of SSDS
  • Tudaor Toma, Group Program Manager of SSDS
  • Nigel Ellis, Architect and Development Lead of SSDS
  • Ryan Dunn, Technical Evangelist for SSDS
  • and rest of the team…

Thanks for your answers for all my questions, I appreciate that. Even though I did not like the name "SQL Server Data Services" as it does not sound as good as Amazon "SimpleDB", but they already did a great ground work within a short period of time and need to see how they will take the services to the people now.