Alumnus and Microsoft Inventor Tapping Cloud Computing Potential
January 23, 2013
Grazed from UTDallas.edu. Author: Editorial Staff.
When his head isn’t in the clouds, what does one of Microsoft’s top inventors do to blow off steam? Christian Belady MA’90 slides into a bright yellow tricked-out Porsche and hits the racetrack. Belady says it’s not about speed. It’s about how you take the turns, especially the first one. It’s like life, where every decision you make today impacts every decision you make in the future. “It may be perceived as a dangerous thing, but that’s what I do, and it’s what clears my mind and energizes me,” he explained.
Belady is the general manager of Data Center Services for Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services. Translation? He helps build, manage and breathe life into the entire world of cloud computing at Microsoft. With the prevalence of commercial products like Microsoft’s Office 365, and a plethora of cloud services like competitors’ Dropbox and iCloud, Belady has his two-minute elevator speech down…
You log on to your computer to access your email, right? No, you log on to your Internet service provider’s server. Do you know where that server is? It’s somewhere out there in the ‘cloud,’ meaning it’s hosted in someone’s data center. Do you notice that wherever you are on the planet, you can always log on? That’s cloud computing. It’s oversimplified, but it’s essentially a resource that holds your data and keeps it secure and available through any communication device anywhere and anytime.”…
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