Join Buck Woody, a Senior Technology Specialist with Microsoft and a
teacher at the University of Washington, as he explains the new options for
business and organizational computing. He'll explain the emergence of a
"data-centric" approach to distributed computing, and the functions within
cloud providers that you can use to enhance your current architecture rather
than replacing it. Buck will also cover the strategies around "Big Data",
specifically covering Hadoop, NoSQL and using an RDBMS in the cloud.
All businesses are under pressure to look for ways to reduce labor, power
and other operational costs. How does cost and security play into the decision
to move to the cloud? Is it true that cloud migrations reduce operational
costs? Do the financial reasons alone justify moving to the cloud?
After I move, have I lost the flexibility with my data? Is my data secured and
is it HIPAA complaint?
In this session we review the following:
- Comparison of On Premise and Cloud Solutions
- Cost comparison: using Cloud licenses On Premise
- Moving your business 100% to the cloud
- Security Concerns – in the cloud or On Premise.
This session is about the business reasons for whether you should move
or not move to the cloud. We review the operational costs for different
business sizes. We compare the ROI of a Cloud business to an on premises
business. At the end of the session you will have the information necessary
to answer the question – does the cloud make business sense?
With all the media hype around cloud computing today, I'm sure there is
also quite a bit of confusion around what cloud computing really is. In this
session, I will fully explain the difference between an organization's datacenter
and a private cloud as well as how these relate to the public cloud
and where exactly a hybrid cloud comes into play. After this session, you
will be armed to make the correct decisions for your organization (and your
own personal future) on when and how you adopt cloud computing.
What's it like to develop for the cloud? In this session, you'll see what the
development experience is like for Windows Azure. We'll start with "Hello,
Cloud" in Visual Studio, running it first in the local simulation environment
and then deploying to a data center in the cloud. We'll progressively add
more features to the application to illustrate the use of different cloud
services. Both the local simulation environment and deployment to a
cloud data center will be shown. We'll also discuss the software development
lifecycle and share best practices for cloud development. You'll leave
with an understanding of the differences and similarities between cloud
development and enterprise development.
Learn how the consistent environment offered by the Microsoft Cloud
Offerings of Office 365 and Windows Intune gives your staff the standard
and easily maintained work tools that they need.
- Office 2010 Professional Plus
- Outlook 2010
- Windows 7 Enterprise with Bit Locker
- Lync for meetings and conversations
- SharePoint for sharing and control of your data
- Intune with its many features
Productivity is improved with a consistent environment: easier for the
users, and easier and less expensive to maintain. Microsoft brings the
pieces together and provides a mechanism to keep everything up to date.
Microsoft Cloud Services allow you to save money in support and training,
and to give your organization a productive edge.
Building a private cloud can be "simple" or it can be near impossible.
Everyone talks about the private cloud, but until you actually build one
yourself, it never really hits home. In this session, I will share my experiences
(and lessons learned) as I worked with my team to build out our
own Private Cloud.
In order to design great cloud solutions architects need to understand
the design patterns intrinsic to their cloud platform. In this session
Windows Azure MVP and author David Pallmann will review the design
patterns inherent in the Windows Azure platform services, followed by a
discussion of application patterns for combining those services. Design
patterns will be reviewed for compute, storage, relational data, communication,
security, and networking. Key patterns will be illustrated with
application examples.
Jason Berg and Ben Muller of CSG Pro will discuss the friendly architectures
of the Hybrid as well as how to decide where to host each application
workload. They will explain integrating and synchronizing hybrid
application while teaching you the techniques of development and
deployment. Finally they will regale you with tips, tricks and "gotchas"
of developing hybrid applications.
With so many different cloud deployment options — including the
SPI service models (SPI refers to Software as a Service, Platform as a
Service, or Infrastructure as a Service) public vs. private deployments,
internal vs. external hosting, and various hybrid permutations — no list
of security controls can cover all circumstances. As with any security
area, organizations should adopt a risk-based approach to moving to
the cloud and selecting security options. Buck Woody from Microsoft
will present cloud security measures that he put together from his time
with NASA and working for large corporations all over the world. Also,
he will have a sample list of questions that you should ask all vendors
when you start looking into deploying Cloud technologies.
What does HTML5 mean for cloud computing, and vice-versa? When
two revolutions are happening simultaneously you can expect interesting
synergies and interactions. Even as cloud computing and social
networks are profoundly transforming the back end, HTML5 and mobile
devices are profoundly transforming the front end. When these worlds
collide we can achieve something truly remarkable: rich, take-anywhere
immersive experiences backed by on-demand, elastic services running
at global scale. Both worlds are driving changes in the way we design
software, and good solution architecture demands they be considered
jointly. In this session you'll see how HTML5 and the cloud combine
functionally and architecturally, illustrated by example.
How do you migrate your business to the cloud? What is the process
and how fast can you migrate. In this session we will review KAMIND's
11 step migration process to office 365. These includes the following:
- Validate Your Domain(s) to Microsoft
- Add Additional Domain Name Service (DNS) Information
- Configure Lync
- Implement Your Deployment Plan
- Load Users
- Set Mail flow
- Set Up Office 365 Security Groups for SharePoint
- Configure SharePoint
- Migrate Historical Email
- Install Powershell
- Clean up (remove old exchange server)
There are different types of deployment, so the speed of the migrations
varies, but all deployments settle down into this 11 step model. At
the end of this session, you will have a well-tested template for cloud
migration.
