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Cloud Computing

A growing number of IT practitioners believe the future of application development is service-based and in the cloud. Cloud computing offers flexible scalability and can provide a less expensive way to host many applications. Even if you aren't ready for Windows Azure yet, you owe it to yourself to become familiar with cloud computing and the services approach to development. This track includes coverage of the following:

Introduction to Windows Azure
Windows Azure Mobile Services
Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS)
Windows Azure SQL Database

T01 On-demand Development & Test Environments in the Cloud: YOU Now Have the Power Tuesday August 19 9:45am - 11:00am

Jeff Levinson , Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Online, Microsoft

Walk through some practical scenarios with live demos to show you how you can take full advantage of this capability today. more

T04 What's New in Azure for Developers Tuesday August 19 9:45am - 11:00am

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Get caught up with recent new announcements, as well as, key enhancements to the existing services. more

T09 API Management Tuesday August 19 11:15am - 12:30pm

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Take quick tour around API Management offerings through a series of code demonstrations. more

T19 Windows Azure SQL Database; SQL Server in the Cloud Tuesday August 19 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This session will get you ramped up quickly on SQL Database; the Windows Azure version of SQL Server more

W09 From the Internet of Things to Intelligent Systems: A Developer's Primer Wednesday August 20 10:45am - 12:00pm

Rick Garibay, Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon.com

Join 7-time Microsoft MVP Rick G. Garibay for a fun and interesting session in which you'll learn what the Internet of Things is all about along with a sneak peak at the reference architecture (code-named Reykjavik). more

W14 Zero to Connected with Windows Azure Mobile Services Wednesday August 20 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

In this session you will learn how to implement mobile services that support simple data access, authentication and authorization, and push notification to your mobile clients on iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, .NET, JavaScript and Android clients. more

W19 Leveraging Windows Azure Web Sites Wednesday August 20 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to leverage Windows Azure websites. more

TH04 Building APIs with NodeJS on Microsoft Azure Websites Thursday August 21 8:00am - 9:15am

Rick Garibay, Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon.com

Look at why Node.js is the perfect framework for building a fast, slick little URL shortening service. more

TH09 Solving Security and Compliance Challenges with Hybrid Clouds Thursday August 21 9:30am - 10:45am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

In this session, Eric D. Boyd will teach you how to use Windows Azure securely and protect sensitive information and achieve regulatory and compliance mandates, like PCI compliance, by combining on-premise data centers and private clouds with the Windows Azure public cloud. more

FW02 Workshop: A Day of Windows Azure Friday August 22 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Walk through the Compute, Data and Application Services that make up Windows Azure and learn how to create web and mobile applications using Windows Azure. more