Entries tagged with cloud computing - Channel 9

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too

Bob Familiar — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:03:00 GMT

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. Shy Cohen and Michael Stiefel discuss why this is so, and why small- and medium-sized companies should look for opportunities in the cloud computing area.

Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:47:00 GMT

Manuvir Das discusses the current state of Windows Azure. The last time we spoke was at last year's PDC when we announced Azure to the world. Here, we dig into hat's new today with Azure. How have people used Azure over the past year? What worked? What didn't work? Tune in. It's always great to chat with Manuvir and there's a lot of great info in this conversation.

E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud

Charles — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:03:00 GMT

Dave Campbell is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and long time database architect. Today, Dave works on the hardest problems facing SQL's foray into the new world of cloud computing. His latest project in this space takes the form of SQL Azure. What is SQL Azure? What's the different with the cloud and what we already experience with SQL server running in a clustered environment and reachable via the Internet? How does this focus on cloud computing and impact the evolution of database design? What's going here? What's next? Erik Meijer, de facto E2E host and language designer, interviews Dave to ge answers to some of these questions. Erik works for Dave, by the way, and as you can see that doesn't stop Erik from asking more than softball questions.

Dave will be presenting at PDC09 in the Technical Leaders track. His talk will focus on ambient data and what this means for the evolution of ways to understand and shape the data this all around us using software. You should attend his session and come with questions if you are going to be at PDC. If you're not going to be there, then make sure to ask Dave questions when he appears on Channel 9 Live!

Enjoy!

How Azure is being used in the real world - Azure Deep Dives

David Gristwood — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:00 GMT

Microsoft runs occasional Azure Deep Dive events, with a small numbers of customers and partners, to help accelerate their progress building real world solutions on the Azure Platform, and providing feedback to the product team. This video looks behind the scenes at one of these 5 day Azure Deep Dives, meets the Microsoft folk mentoring the sessions, and the customers and partners building their solutions.

Check out the video to see:

- The features in the Azure Platform that early adopters are finding most compelling

- The emerging architectural patterns being used, such as the use of queues for durable messaging

- Discussion of recently released features for Windows Azure, and some hints for new features being announced at the PDC

- Real customer and partner solutions that are being built on the Azure Platform.

C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing

Charles — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:46:00 GMT

Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer with a rich history in both operating system design and distributed computing. Yousef is responsible for the overall design of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud operating system (which includes the Azure development platform in addition to the "OS", aka Windows Azure). Windows Azure is an operating system in the sense that it supplies a host of core services, process scheduling and management, identity management, etc, that we typically expect from a general purpose operating system.

In this first installment of C9 Conversations (we sit down with various Microsoft technical leaders to discuss a wide range of topics related to general purpose computing; all in high quality video and audio (big thanks to Tina Summerford for producing this new series)), the topic is cloud computing. What is it, exactly? Why does it matter? What are the challenges involved in taking software to the cloud? What does that mean, exactly? Is Windows Azure an operating system by analogy? What is Windows Azure, exactly? And more..

Yousef will be presenting his ideas on cloud computing and its future at PDC09 as part of the Technical Leaders track. Make sure to attend his talk if you're interested in how Microsoft thinks about the future of cloud computing.

BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud (2/2)

The Swedish Web Team — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:00 GMT

Presented at the Swedish BizTalk User Group meeting September 16th 2009 in Stockholm.

Session 2 of 2: This session shows how to exploit SOA principles when consuming existing services. We will also see how BizTalk can directly engage cloud offerings from the leading vendors. (View session 1)

Richard Seroter is a solutions architect for an industry-leading biotechnology company, a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and a Microsoft Connected Technology Advisor. He has spent the majority of his career consulting with customers as they planned and implemented their enterprise software solutions. Richard worked first for two global IT consulting firms, which gave him exposure to a diverse range of industries, technologies, and business challenges. Richard then joined Microsoft as a SOA/BPM technology specialist where his sole objective was to educate and collaborate with customers as they considered, designed, and architected BizTalk solutions. One of those customers liked him enough to bring him onboard full time as an architect after they committed to using BizTalk Server as their enterprise service bus. Once the BizTalk environment was successfully established, Richard transitioned into a solutions architect role where he now helps identify enterprise best practices and applies good architectural principles to a wide set of IT initiatives.

Richard maintains a semi-popular blog of his exploits, pitfalls, and musings with BizTalk Server, SOA and enterprise architecture at http://seroter.wordpress.com/.

BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud (1/2)

The Swedish Web Team — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Presented at the Swedish BizTalk User Group meeting September 16th 2009 in Stockholm.

Session 1 of 2:

In this session we will discuss the continued relevance of SOA and how to apply SOA principles when designing and exposing services from BizTalk Server. (View session 2)

Richard Seroter is a solutions architect for an industry-leading biotechnology company, a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and a Microsoft Connected Technology Advisor. He has spent the majority of his career consulting with customers as they planned and implemented their enterprise software solutions. Richard worked first for two global IT consulting firms, which gave him exposure to a diverse range of industries, technologies, and business challenges. Richard then joined Microsoft as a SOA/BPM technology specialist where his sole objective was to educate and collaborate with customers as they considered, designed, and architected BizTalk solutions. One of those customers liked him enough to bring him onboard full time as an architect after they committed to using BizTalk Server as their enterprise service bus. Once the BizTalk environment was successfully established, Richard transitioned into a solutions architect role where he now helps identify enterprise best practices and applies good architectural principles to a wide set of IT initiatives.

Richard maintains a semi-popular blog of his exploits, pitfalls, and musings with BizTalk Server, SOA and enterprise architecture at http://seroter.wordpress.com/.

ISV Offers Cloud Solution to 1+ Million Teachers via Azure and Win 7

Abe Pachikara — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:26:00 GMT

How do you leapfrog from antiquated teaching tools to those of tomorrow and do so at 1/5^th normal costs while fighting poverty and illiteracy?

Learn how using cloud computing, Win 7 and an orchestration of software is enabling a cutting edge solution delivered from the US, via Windows Azure, into Nigeria and other emerging markets. Plus, it has the cost savings and technical chops that many orgs in the US would find relevant, particularly in today's economy.

Danny Kim, CTO of FullArmor discusses the problem he faced, how and why he chose Azure and the benefits that surprised him in terms of low cost, headaches avoided and agility gained.

ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud

Bob Familiar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:33:00 GMT

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud - Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform. Michael discusses three areas of focus for designing and building services so that you can leverage your work into new platforms such as Windows Azure.

ARCast.TV - CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:53:00 GMT

What are the business considerations of risks and benefits when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue.

SI WMP Handles Client Need in 10 Days Using Azure

Abe Pachikara — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:07:00 GMT

Frank Campise speaks with Erik Brown, tech lead at West Monroe Partners (WMP). The client need: “provide an interactive map for the Taste of Chicago in 10 calendar days." Designed, tested, provisioned and deployed. The event gets approximately 3 million attendees so it was possible to get 2,000 to 50,000 hits in a day.

They chose Windows Azure, so they could focus their precious time on the solution for the City of Chicago client. As a result, WMP: delivered a richer solution than anticipated within the 10 day deadline; had peace of mind that the infrastructure solution will “work” regardless the traffic they get.

After the video, read the full case study and then dive into Azure:

· Get a free CTP account

· Download the fab training kit

· Look thru the latest whitepapers

David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and the cloud

David Gristwood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:00 GMT

“If I ruled the world”, says David Chappell, “I would make the phrase ‘private cloud’ illegal”. In conversation with David Gristwood, David Chappell, during his recent world tour, discusses Windows Azure, its importance and role in the partner ecosystem, and other cloud players, such as Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, VMware and more.

Eduify Head of Marketing Speaks About Choosing Azure

Abe Pachikara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:39:00 GMT

Anand Iyer speaks with Dan Merritts from startup Eduify about the criteria used to choose a cloud computing provider and why they ultimately chose Windows Azure. See a demo of their product and hear how well Azure is meeting Eduify's expectations.

Being a startup, Eduify was keen on using cloud computing to help preserve its cash position. They evaluated options based on time-to-market, the management requirements placed upon their internal teams, and the ability to integrate existing capabilties via service bus (to tap properties important to their customers such as Facebook Connect and Live Messenger).

After the video, dive into Azure: get a free CTP account, download the fab training kit and look thru the latest whitepapers.

ARCast.TV - Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus

Bob Familiar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:40:00 GMT

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. Joe Shirey talks to Clemens Vasters, senior program manager on the Windows Azure team, about the architectural implications of the Internet Services Bus and .NET Services.

What are .NET Services?

Nigel Watling — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:19:00 GMT

This brief video gives an introduction to .NET Services. We'll explore its components, what they do and what value they provide.

Suggested Additional Content

What is Windows Azure?

Related Hands on Labs

Introduction to the .NET Service Bus

Azure Learning Center

http://channel9.msdn.com/azure

George Moore: Windows Azure Business Model for Developers - An Introduction

Charles — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:03:00 GMT

21 year Microsoft veteran and Software Architect George Moore is involved in defining and implementing an effective strategy for taking Windows Azure from technology preview to enterprise business ready. Specifically, George is responsible for all integration of all Azure services (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, .NET Services) to other systems at Microsoft. This includes the billing system integration across all Azure services, the business owner portal, and the developer portal for all Azure services.

Here, we get to know a bit more about the thinking behind the commercialization of Windows Azure (which you will learn more about in great detail at PDC 09). We also learn more about George and his 21 years at the company. He's been a part of some very interesting and innovative technologies over the years not the least of which is the CCR (he led the team that created it).

Tune in. This is classic C9. Human. Insightful. Unscripted.

Enjoy

ARCast.TV - Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud

Bob Familiar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:39:00 GMT

Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along the way? In this talk, learn architectural patterns and factors for moving to the cloud. Based on real-world projects, the talk explores building block services, patterns for exposing applications, and challenges involving identity, data federation, and management. Denny Boynton talks to Simon Guest about the tools and knowledge required to determine whether cloud computing is right for you, and where to start.

Ethan Jackson - BAM - Cloud Computing with Models

Peli de Halleux — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:11:00 GMT

A (very) short video with Ethan Jackson on BAM. BAM is a new approach to developing cloud applications through modeling, code synthesis, and simulation. With BAM you design applications that work in a dynamic environment with fluctuating resources. You can also check out a previous Channel9 video for more details about how things work.

BAM home page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ejackson/bam.aspx

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

ARCast.TV - Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the next software boom

Bob Familiar — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:06:00 GMT

The ongoing economy unraveling is the defining moment of our time. Many professional developers are fearful for their livelihood, as employers and customers cut and slash development plans, and as economic activity grinds to a halt. But not everywhere. In centers of technical excellence and innovation such as the Silicon Valley, the major players, from investors to industry leaders, are aligning themselves with the next boom in software, a field Juval Lowy calls the Energynet. Alternative energy covers a wide range, from new cars, to micro renewal sources energy producers, infrastructure upgrades to charge stations and distribution, new power and transformation grids, and integration of billing systems, let alone commercial building and homes modification. And the key for making all that work is software. We simply cannot make the physics or the chemistry substantially better, but we can profoundly integrate systems, iron out inefficiency, automate and vertically integrate energy trading, production and consumption; and the key to all of that is great software. This massive new software system is the Energynet, and the analogy to the Internet is a good one - instead of packets and request the Energynet transfers watts and usage data, connecting anything and everything in the energy market. In this unique session, Juval Lowy presents the case for the next boom in software, shares personal observation and perspectives, and points out the skills and expertise required of developers that want to not only survive but thrive on the next boom in software.

What is Windows Azure?

Ryan Dunn — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Just what is Windows Azure? Join me in this brief video for an introduction to Windows Azure. We'll explore its components, the key features, and discuss why you should care.

Suggested Additional Content

Windows Azure Storage Overview

Related Videos

How Do I: Get Started Developing with Windows Azure?

Related Hands on Labs

Building Windows Azure Services

Windows Azure Storage Overview

Ryan Dunn — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:17:00 GMT

A key component of any cloud computing offering is durable storage. Windows Azure provides 3 forms of durable storage: tables, blobs, and queues. Join me as we explore the highlights of these 3 important implementations.

Related Videos

How Do I: Store Blobs in Windows Azure Storage?
How Do I: Leverage Queues in Windows Azure?
How Do I: Store Data in Windows Azure Tables?
How Do I: Use Paging in Windows Azure Tables?
How Do I: Leverage Concurrency in Windows Azure Tables?

Related Hands on Labs

Getting Started with Windows Azure Storage
Using Windows Azure Tables

Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Michael Isard - Inside Dryad

Charles — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Microsoft Research recently announced the availability, under Academic Licensing, of Dryad, an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs.

A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming.

That's a pretty heady statement. What does Dryad do, exactly, to enable this level of abstraction, shielding programmers from the incredibly complex world of distributed parallel computing? Does the level of abstraction impact the degree to which sophisticated programmers can interact with and control some of the low level mechanisms of the Dryad runtime? What is it about LINQ that made it the no-brainer managed programming abstraction for Dryad?

Simply, how does Dryad work? This is the core question that Erik and I had after our conversation with Roger Barga (part one of this E2E mini-series on Dryad and DryadLINQ - perhaps we should focus just on DryadLINQ next time, but for now, all the information in this conversation is certain to keep you very busy and answer many questions you may have after learning about Dryad in part one...).

Lots of whiteboarding here. Put on your thinking caps!

Enjoy.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing

Bob Familiar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:00 GMT

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud. This episode is part 2 in the series, what Microsoft is doing in the cloud computing space.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 1, What it means to the user

Bob Familiar — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:00 GMT

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud? This episode is part one of the discussion, what the cloud means to the user.

ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

Bob Familiar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:00 GMT

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.