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Jeff Certain – Introduction to the Azure Services Platform

At the last Professional Developer's Conference (PDC), Microsoft announced their cloud computing initiative – the Azure Services Platform. This platform provides the Windows Azure cloud services operating system with a growing list of service offerings, including .NET services, and SQL Services. Come and discuss this with Jeff as he provides an overview of the basics of cloud computing using the Azure Services Platform, including the overall architecture and the development tools integrated into Visual Studio. We’ll discuss considerations for deployment, including geographic affinity. Jeff will also demonstrate a variety of cloud-based storage techniques, including both Azure local storage and deployment of relational data to SQL Services. We’ll finish with a demonstration of integrating the Parallel Extensions libraries with Azure to develop scalable, high-throughput applications. Learn about how the Azure Services Platform provides many capabilities to anyone ranging from web developers and hobbyists, to corporate developers and software makers – something you, your customers and users will appreciate.

Jeff Certain is a Microsoft MVP in VB.net and a software architect at Colorado Customware, a mid-sized ISV providing computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) and land records management (LRM) solutions to county governments throughout the U.S. He has written for Visual Studio Magazine and has spoken at VS Live on parallel computing. Jeff is also involved in the technical community, leading the Northern Colorado .NET Special Interest Group and the Northern Colorado Software Architects group.