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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Chris Kinsman is the Chief Architect for Vertafore, an ISV in the Insurance vertical that provides solutions for insurance carriers, brokers, MGAs and insurance agents.
Suggested Reading 16 Mar 2009

Read and Recommended: Becoming a Good Program Manager

Chris Kinsman writes "...the only book that's been written that pretty much covers exactly what a program manager has to do, so start with that. Scott was a program manager on the Internet Explorer team..." Read post »
TechTalk 28 Jan 2009

Very Interesting Spin on VDI Bears Some Watching

Chris Kinsman writes "...Virtualizing servers to ease management and migration is commonplace for server infrastructure...A newly-announced venture...could be the first step towards bringing those same benefits to the desktop..." Read post »
TechTalk 27 Jan 2009

Interesting Take On Private Cloud Concept - Not Sure If I Agree

Chris Kinsman writes "...Not sure if I agree that the main thing differentiating a “Cloud” is it’s scale...Just don't call them private clouds Computing will take place both within and without enterprise data centers, but it's not all cloud computing..." Read post »
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Chris Kinsman

VP & Chief Architect Vertafore Redmond, WA, US Send email to Chris Chris's blog  »
Technical Expertise .NET Compact Framework, .NET Development, .NET Framework, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Pocket PC & Smartphone, Visual Studio .NET, Windows Server 2003, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 17
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Insurance