GL.net Group Meeting #5 - 17 June 2009

Summary

Eric Nelson, on Windows Azure and SQL Data Services.

Developing and deploying your first Cloud Service with Windows Azure

In this session you will hear about the key problems that cloud computing is solving and an overview of the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. We will take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage and an integrated developer experience.

SQL Data Services

SDS enables the storage of relational data in the cloud as part of the Microsoft Azure Services Platform which is expected to go live by the end of 2009. This session will look at the similarities and differences between SDS and traditional on premise relational databases and investigate how to take advantage of SDS in your own applications.

Bio

After many years of developing on UNIX/RDBMS (and being able to get mortgages) Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist (and stopped being able to get mortgages due to his new 'unusual job title' in the words of his bank manager). He has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies - from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. Along the way he has met lots of smart and fun developers - and been completely stumped by many of their questions! In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group. Currently Eric’s interests include digging into LINQ to Entities, ADO.NET Data Services and switching from C# to Visual Basic development. At home, he battles rat infestations, comes second to the family dog and uses any spare moments he has after 10pm to team up and play online with and against friends - keep an eye out for 'erknel' and say 'hi'.

http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/Default.aspx

http://twitter.com/ericnel

Location

Symantec/MessageLabs
1240 Lansdowne Court
Gloucester Business Park Gloucester, GL3 4AB

Agenda

6:00pm - Doors Open
6:30pm - Meeting Begins: Welcome and Grok Talk
7:00pm - Main Presentation 1
7:50pm - Break
8:10pm - Main Presentation 2
9:00pm - Presentation Ends. Retire to bar.

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