Where is Microsoft Taking BizTalk? How does BizTalk fit into the cloud?

If you are like me, you have a good deal of expertise and time invested in BizTalk as a platform for integrations and service orientation. With the release of the Azure Service bus I have become curious about the path that Microsoft has planned for BizTalk and where MS stands with the platform moving forward.

See the link below for the path that MS sees for BizTalk

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2010/10/28/changing-the-game-biztalk-server-2010-and-the-road-ahead.aspx

App Fabric Cache - Grid Dynamics White Paper that demonstrates ability to Scale Web Application

I have been looking at caching solutions for a number of scenarios lately to speed up enterprise application performance. In the process I ran across the white paper that shows the benefits of caching in a Web Application scenario.

"Grid Dynamics, a Microsoft partner, created three sample applications, designed to be typical use cases for data caching, and ran extensive benchmarking tests to evaluate their performance characteristics. The applications were a blogging engine, demonstrating the most basic features of Velocity caching technology; a simple e-commerce website, demonstrating Velocity’s capabilities for managing session state, and; a market data application, demonstrating Velocity’s event processing capabilities."

Click Here to download the full White Paper