Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts
Announcing the latest webcast series - Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts. In this series
you can join Mike Benkovich as we start at the beginning and take you thru the services
and technologies that make up Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Running every week on
Tuesdays join us to explore the possible with Cloud Computing. Working thru the
Hands on Labs in the Windows Azure Training Kit.?
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Part 1 - Get Started with Cloud Computing
and Windows Azure.
You've heard the buzz, your boss might even have talked about it. In this
first webcast of the Soup to Nuts series we'll get started with Windows Azure
and Cloud Computing. In it we will explore what Azure is and isn't and get started
by building our first Cloud application. Fasten your seatbelts, we're ready
to get started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure.
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Part 2 - Windows Azure Compute Services
The Cloud provides us with a number of services including storage, compute, networking
and more. In this second session we take a look at how roles define what a service
is. Beyond the different flavors of roles we show the RoleEntryPoint interface,
and how we can plug code in the startup operations to make it easy to scale up instances.
We will show how the Service Definition defines the role and provides hooks for
customizing it to run the way we need it to.
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Part 3 - Windows Azure Storage Options
The Cloud provides a scalable environment for compute but it needs somewhere
common to store data. In this webcast we look at Windows Azure Storage and explore
how to use the various types available to us including Blobs, Tables and Queues.
We look at how it is durable, highly available and secured so that we can build
applications that are able to leverage its strengths.
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2/28 : Part 4 - Intro to SQL Azure
While Windows Azure Storage provides basic storage often we need to work
with Relational Data. In this weeks webcast we dive into SQL Azure and see how it
is similar and different from on-premise SQL Server. From connecting from rich client
as well as web apps to the management tools available for creating schema and moving
data between instances in the cloud and on site we show you how it’s done.
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3/6 : Part 5 - Access Control Services and Cloud Identity
Who are you? How do we know? Can you prove it? Identity in the cloud
presents us with the same and different challenges from identity in person. Access
Control Services is a modern identity selector service that makes it easy to work
with existing islands of identity such as Facebook, Yahoo and Google. It is based
on standards and works with claims to provide your application with the information
it needs to make informed authorization decisions. Join this webcast to see ACS
in action and learn how to put it to work in your application today.
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3/13 : Part 6 - Diagnostics & Troubleshootingx
So you’ve built your Cloud application and now something goes wrong.
What now? This weeks webcast is focused on looking at the options available for
gaining insight to be able to find and solve problems. From working with Intellitrace
to capture a run history to profiling options to configuring the diagnostics agent
we will show you how to diagnose and troubleshoot your application.
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Part 7 - Get Started with Windows
Azure Caching Services with Brian Hitney (http://bit.ly/btlod-77)
How can you get the most performance and scalability from platform as a service?
In this webcast, we take a look at caching and how you can integrate it in your
application. Caching provides a distributed, in-memory application cache service
for Windows Azure that provides performance by reducing the work needed to
return a requested page.
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Part 8 - Get Started with SQL
Azure Reporting Services with Mike Benkovich (http://bit.ly/btlod-78)
Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting lets you easily build reporting capabilities into
your Windows Azure application. The reports can be accessed easily from the
Windows Azure portal, through a web browser, or directly from applications. With
the cloud at your service, there's no need to manage or maintain your own
reporting infrastructure. Join us as we dive into SQL Azure Reporting and the
tools that are available to design connected reports that operate against
disparate data sources. We look at what's provided from Windows Azure to support
reporting and the available deployment options. We also see how to use this
technology to build scalable reporting applications
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Part 9 – Get Started working
with Service Bus with Jim O’Neil (http://bit.ly/btlod-79)
No man is an island, and no cloud application stands alone! Now that you've
conquered the core services of web roles, worker roles, storage, and Microsoft
SQL Azure, it's time to learn how to bridge applications within the cloud and
between the cloud and on premises. This is where the Service Bus comes
in—providing connectivity for Windows Communication Foundation and other
endpoints even behind firewalls. With both relay and brokered messaging
capabilities, you can provide application-to-application communication as well
as durable, asynchronous publication/subscription semantics. Come to this
webcast ready to participate from your own computer to see how this technology
all comes together in real time.