Best guess on what it is: A metadata layer enabling data synchronization online and offline across multiple Microsoft and third-party products and devices

Meaning/context of the code name: Ibiza, one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain, is yet another island code name. Definitely seems like there’s a tendency inside Microsoft to go with island names, as of late. (Think Greenland, Fiji, Tahiti.) I am not entirely clear whether “Ibiza� is the new codename for “Harmonica,� Microsoft’s P2P mesh service for synchronization, or whether it’s a complement to Harmonica. I tend to think this could be a case of Microsoft switching up codenames to throw off us codename watchers….

Back story: Ibiza supposedly is the core metadata layer that will be at the heart of Microsoft’s online/offline synchronization technologies and strategies. Online/offline sync is many software vendors’ holy grail these days. For Microsoft, such a capability is an absolute requirement if Software + Services is to have any real meaning.

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