On Tuesday David and I delivered a Windows Azure Discovery Workshop in Reading. A big thank you to everyone who attended and the great discussions we had.
The next step is to sign up at http://www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk for FREE assistance to fully explore and adopt the Windows Azure Platform.
Note: We have further FREE Windows Azure Discovery Workshops taking place in and December and January if you would also like to explore the possibilities whilst getting a more detailed grounding in the technology. They take place in Reading, are completely FREE and the next is on December the 13th.
Slides
- Windows Azure Overview (TBD)
- 10 great questions
Links
- Eric Nelson http://www.ericnelson.co.uk
- David Gristwood http://blogs.msdn.com/david_gristwood
- Get better connected with our team http://bit.ly/ukisvfirststop (Blog/Twitter/LinkedIn/FREE Events)
- Windows Azure Live Streaming starter solution http://azlivestreaming.codeplex.com/
- 10 Questions
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2b Will it run Foo?
- Umbraco on Aure http://uktechdays.cloudapp.net/home.aspx
- http://things.smarx.com/
- 3 How Big.
- 150,000 Tickets in 10 seconds. Flavorus Case Study
- SQL Azure Federations
- Multi tenanted Federations example http://shard.codeplex.com/
- SQL Azure Federation Data Migration Wizard
- 3 Soft Limits. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/support/ to ask for soft limits to change
- 5 SQL Server vs SQL Azure.
- A great place to start – technet wiki on SQL Azure
- SQL Azure Throttling
- More on SQL Azure Throttling
- 6 How fast is it
- Design Targets
- http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/ for benchmark results and scripts
- 7 Autoscaling
- 8 How secure is it
- 9 How much will it cost http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
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Related Links:
- http://www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk for FREE assistance
- Sign up to Microsoft Platform Ready for assistance on the Windows Azure Platform
- http://www.azure.com/offers
- http://www.azure.com/getstarted
Cloud-burps by Eric Nelson (ex-IUpdateable) 