Presenter(s): Josh Holmes

Track: Architecture

Time: 12:40 - 1:40

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing offering. It is more than a simple scalable hosting option as it is truly a platform as a service offering. This allows you to focus on your application rather than the configuring and managing your infrastructure whether you are writing C# or VB.NET or even languages such as PHP or Ruby which are first class citizens in Windows Azure. In fact, in this session, we are going to focus on the non-Microsoft technologies running on Azure and leveraging all the various aspects of this cloud platform for truly scalable applications. In this session, we will begin with the why of Windows Azure talking about when it makes sense to make a move and what the prudent migration paths are for your organization. During this time we will tour the various aspects of Windows Azure including how the roles are configured to how data storage is done. Then we’ll delve into the technical aspects of how to run your PHP/Ruby code on Windows Azure. Once we have that mastered, we will move onto leveraging the Windows Azure platform to its fullest.