On Thursday, December 11th, the Phoenix Neudesic office is hosting the first Cloud Computing User Group meeting based around the Microsoft Windows Azure technologies. If you’re interested in attending, here’s the link to the invite: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=133685.

Cloud Computing using Microsoft technologies is a new area that Neudesic is trying to push into and lead the way. Here in the local Phoenix area, I can see that we’ll be pushing a lot of cloud computing initiatives to our customers in 2009 as the technology gets closer to production use.

I’ve volunteered to lead the local user group for at least the beginning. I won’t be at the first meeting, however, as I’ll be travelling to California for a weekend getaway, but David Pallmann will be introducing the Windows Azure platform.

While the initial focus will be on Microsoft technologies, I do have to admit that I am quite interested in other cloud computing technologies, so I may see how to get those involved in this as well.

If you have any question about the upcoming user group, send me an email and let me know.