On Friday David and I delivered a new session as part of a great agenda for the BizSpark Azure Camp. Our session was “10 Great Questions to ask about the Windows Azure Platform”.
A big thank you to everyone who attended and asked such great questions – and also to the other speakers for making it a great day.
One of the things we discussed was “next steps”. I would recommend the monthly Windows Azure Discovery Workshops if you are new to the platform and would 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 October the 11th. Hope to see some of you there.
Slides
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)
- 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
- 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
- Azure Watch from Paraleap
- Enterprise Library autoscaling block and the release of the preview in Sep.
- 8 How secure is it
- www.globalfoundationservices.com
- Security resources for Azure including Windows Azure Security Overview and Windows Azure Security Notes
- 9 How much will it cost http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
Related Links:
- 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) 