Thursday, June 2, 2011

Attending Microsoft Cloud Intelligence #CloudIntel Conference

Session Notes
  • Bob McDowell - Keynote
  • Platform as a service: Windows Azure - Joel Forman
    • CDN: Content Delivery Network
      • Caches commonly used files in geographically appropriate locations
      • Configure for specific static files: media, css, js, etc.
      • Each file has a CDN url
    • Windows Azure Traffic Manager
      • Geographically dispersed Domain resolution forwarding
        • Forwards domain requests to appropriate servers by location
    • Windows Azure Storage
      • File hosting
  • SharePoint 2010 Online - Atul Totre
    • Dedicated SharePoint Online available for over 5,000 users
    • Online Standard Infrastructure Limits
      • 10 GB base + 500 MB per user account
      • 100 GB max per site collection
      • 300 site collection max
      • 1 TB storage max per tenant up to 5TB
      • 250MB file upload size
      • 500 MB per MySite (separate from Site Collections)
      • Backups: every 12 hours for 14 days retention
  • Management with System Center - Rand Morimoto of CCO
    • Configuration Manager (SCCM)
      • Patching servers and OS's
      • Deploying images/VMs
      • Scheduled downtime patching and system grouping
      • Quest Management Xtensions - Allow patching non-MS devices, Apple, mobile, etc.
    • Operations Manager (SCOM)
      • Monitoring
      • Plugins: Cisco, SalesForce cloud, Office 365, VMware, etc.
      • Logical service grouping
      • Monitoring Agents: Run scripted scenarios remotely for client response time monitoring
      • Dashboards
    • VM Manager (SCVMM)
      • Migration to Hyper-V
      • Rapid PowerShell provisioning
      • Automated Live Migration based on guest session utilization
      • Self-service VM Guest Session creation - user's can automatically create VMs
    • Data Protection Manager (SCDPM)
      • File system, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Hyper-V Host/Guest, Windows 7
      • Incident Management, Self Service Portal and Password Reset
    • Opalis
      • Workflow type GUI instead of scripting
    • 2012 planned features
      • Provision Hyper-V Host
      • Cloud based monitoring (Azure)
      • Server App-V Application Virtualization
        • Application bubble isolates application install from OS
  • PaaS Developer Tooling - Bruno Terkaly
    • Windows Azure
      • Compute
        • Web Roles
        • Worker Roles
      • Storage
        • Tables, Blobs, and Queues
        • Tables are unlimited scalability, but not relational
    • SQL Azure
    • App Fabric
    • Tools
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