W2 Azure Platform Overview

11/17/2010

8:00 AM - 9:15 am

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisite: None

Vishwas Lele

Chief Technology Officer

AIS

Vishwas Lele is an AIS Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for the company vision and execution of creating business solutions using .NET technologies. Vishwas brings close to 20 years of experience and thought leadership to his position, and has been at AIS for 13 years. A noted industry speaker and author, Vishwas is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington, D.C. area and a member of the Connected Systems Division Advisors group. Additionally, Vishwas has received an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Solution Architecture award for 2009.

The Windows Azure platform provides a comprehensive set of services for building and running scalable applications targeted at the cloud. In this introductory session, we’ll explore these new concepts and show the basics of how to get started today with the Windows Azure platform. During the course of the session, we will also see how web applications can use the scalable compute and storage services with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with Microsoft SQL Azure.