Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Vishwas Lele

Chief Technology Officer

AIS

This session is for anyone who wants to get better understand of the recently-announced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.

Why should developers learn about IaaS?

• First time ever we have the ability to treat infrastructure as a programmable resource (think of your infrastructure as an Object Model)
• Ability to build cost effective systems (by only turning on the parts of system that are needed and when they are needed)
• Ability to build systems that scale in the direction of business growth ( i.e. add more cache servers, add number of IIS instance, add database shards as needed)
• Ability to take advantage of local, as well as, geo redundant infrastructure to make our application fault tolerant like never before.

A working understanding of IaaS is needed to take advantage of aforementioned benefits!

Suggested Background Reading:

• http://blog.appliedis.com/2012/07/16/windows-azure-spring-2012-release-four-scenarios-in-the-hybrid-cloud/
• http://blog.appliedis.com/2012/11/19/iaas-and-paas-together-a-video-walkthrough-of-hybrid-scenarios/
• http://blog.appliedis.com/2013/01/14/try-out-the-latest-tfs-alm-capabilities-in-the-cloud-and-im-not-talking-about-visualstudio-com/
  

You will learn:

• IaaS Core Concepts
• Azure Virtual Machines and Disk Mobility
• Azure Virtual Network