Leveraging Windows Azure's Scalability

Interesting technology. The attempt to harvest massive stores of data and organize it into something useful is a massive challenge for any organization. It looks like Microsoft's "Dallas" group has made some significant headway in that area.

Computational power is one of the major obstacles in data-harvesting, but it makes a great use case for the Windows Azure Platform and its scalability benefits.

Microsoft and Google are clearly in fierce competition within the data service and online computing spaces, and it is exciting to follow the moves.

(I am contracted by M80, working with Microsoft to promote Windows Azure)

That is no Google Killer

Same as Murdoch bravado was just that, this tool will be no Google killer. It could be Wolfram Alpha killer though, if Alpha is still alive at that point. Can I find my aunt's blog by entering her name into Dallas? Nah, I didn't think so, either.

Oh, and btw Google sometimes outperforms some very specialized and mature "data unlocking" tools, so I really can't see how it could be killed by a system that is still mostly a flowchart on MS's higher management meeting room whiteboard. If there was a significant need for such a tool, the market might very well be locked down by the likes of Alpha and Google's own Squared before Dallas is even released.