Slides and Links from Windows Azure Discovery Workshop Dec 13th

On Tuesday David and I delivered a Windows Azure Discovery Workshop in Reading – with festive mince pies, duck, turket and bailey infused desert. A big thank you to everyone who attended and the great discussions we had – and Merry Xmas!

Slides

• Windows Azure Overview
• 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)
• 10 Questions

  • 2b Will it run Foo?

    • http://things.smarx.com/ great example of what is possible

  • 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
    • SQL Azure vs SQL Server MSDN Documentation
  • 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:

• http://www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk for FREE assistance starting January 23rd 
• Sign up to Microsoft Platform Ready for assistance on the Windows Azure Platform