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At the next level, “Zurich” — which Microsoft also has described as the Live Platform services layer — Microsoft will deliver federated identity, data synchronization, workflow and “relay services.” I’ve been hearing a bit more lately about Relay, which I believe Microsoft also has called “Overlay” services.
Overlay is a peer-to-peer network that will help bridge distributed, parallel systems. Supposedly, Overlay will help Microsoft do everything from load balancing and replication of application states across the network of machines, to providing a discovery framework for Web services to make use of presence and federation services. Elements of the overlay network are expected to be part of .Net 4.0, the next version of Microsoft’s .Net Framework.
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