Cloud computing promises to radically change the way that computer applications and services are constructed, delivered, and managed.  The potential benefits are clear, but realizing these benefits requires new techniques for managing shared data in the cloud, fault-tolerant computation, service composition, scheduling, metering and billing, protecting privacy, communication, and, more generally, sharing resources among applications under the control of diverse organizations.  The research community is stepping up to meet these challenges, as are a number of high-tech companies.  This talk highlights some early efforts and unsolved problems in what is sure to be a productive area of innovation for years to come.

SharePoint is a great development platform being so huge as product, is hard for someone starting up on the SharePoint developing world, to achieve success without stumbling on "black-holes" issues with no turning back. The game has raised even more with SharePoint Online! With this session learn how can you develop for SharePoint Online without an online account. Some best practices in developing in SharePoint, tips and tricks on Environments, ALM, Frameworks and Do/Don'ts. ​  

Cloud computing is an emerging technological paradigm shift. Its importance is hard to over state, but many IT professionals still don't have a firm understanding of exactly what cloud computing is. This presentation will give a simple introduction to cloud computing and discuss what it is and isn't, who should be interested, and a few other starter topics. This presentation will have a number of links to resources of interest and is most suitable for those who are not yet taking advantage of cloud computing. ​      

This presentation examines the progression of educational technology usage in teaching in the context of Skilled Trades Training, Medical Education and Information Technology. It starts with a chronology of ed tech from its beginnings to the present day including current and future Cloud based initiatives . Drawing on current research on youth attitudes to technology set against the demographic characteristics of this emerging generation, it continues on to suggest a forecast of where educational technology is going and the economic and social/demographic imperatives that will drive this evolution. Having set this stage, a list of some of the more apparent challenges and opportunities that may result from this and the potential impact on higher education institutions are presented. The presentation concludes with a call to action to the higher education system worldwide to manage the unavoidable and exciting change that is coming in the emerging world of cloud and social network based learning.

“Trust in the Cloud -- how you use the cloud, do you trust your data there, how do you leverage cloud technologies to EXTEND your trust and also what happens to that trusted data when you can't pay your monthly fee”
 

This session will give you details on how Windows Intune can help your business in three key areas: - Helps manage and secure PCs anywhere with cloud services.  - Gets the best Windows experience with Windows 7.  Fits your business with simple setup, maintenance, and billing  

​Many small businesses are operating with Microsoft’s Small Business Server or Server 2008 and Exchange onsite. With limited bandwidth for the next few years, the perfect solution is SBS Essentials (active directory and storage) onsite and other vital services in the cloud. Karl, author of The Network Migration Workbook, will walk you through the process of migrating to SBS Essentials, combined with cloud-bases services, with zero downtime at the client’s office.

Building a highly available, reliable and elastic video conversion application has never been easier! Join this session to pick up the gem of Cloud computing. Windows Azure Worker role is kind of background worker processes which waits for tasks and do its work. And the Windows Azure Platform allows us to dynamically scale the number of instances without interrupting the work. We will also show how you can decouple different application modules and implement inter-module communication via Windows Azure Queues. Working with third party applications is not that hard in Windows Azure and it will be shown using the widely used FFMPEG video processing application. A good planning and architecture of cloud application includes loosely coupled dependencies. In this session you will also see how to design your worker role in manner that you can update your third party software at any time without the need of rebuilding and redeploying the Cloud Service package again and again. Windows Azure Storage Services is a triplet of highly available, reliable and scalable cloud storage solutions - Blob, Table and Queue. You can use any of these separately from Windows Azure Compute roles (Web or Worker) and we will show you the underwater stones you can encounter if you do so. Finally you will see a quick walk-through a complete application, which is based on all mentioned technologies and is free and open source. ​  

In this presentation Cloud Security Alliance founder and executive director Jim Reavis provides information on the current state of cloud computing and related security issues.  Jim will provide a sampling of cloud adoption use cases, the security challenges that were faced, and how these challenges are being successfully overcome.  Jim will provide an overview of the CSA research and educational programs that are assisting in the efforts to deliver trust in the cloud​

Cloud computing is here to stay, and it is never too soon to begin understanding the impact it will have on application architecture. In this talk we will discuss some of the more significant architectural shifts for computation, discussing the key patterns and seeing how these new cloud patterns map naturally into specific programming practices in Windows Azure. This is all about effectively using Azure Roles and Queues and combining them using cloud-friendly design patterns. The concepts discussed in this talk - such as scaling out versus scaling up, assuming failure, idempotency and poison messages - are relevant for developers and architects building systems for the cloud today, or who want to be prepared to move to the cloud in the future. At the end of this talk, you should be able to see more clearly how "mere mortals" can use Windows Azure to build highly reliable applications that scale economically. 

This session provides overview of Microsoft SharePoint Online which is a part of Office 365 offering, the session will cover following topics.
• SharePoint Online Service Overview
• SharePoint Online Versus SharePoint OnPremise
• SharePoint Online Development (Code & No Code)  

SQL Azure is Microsoft’s new strategy for storing your data in the cloud, but what to do when you exceed the 10/50GB limit. This is where sharding or partitioning comes into play – this session shows you how it can be done in an OLTP system and show you some of the common pitfalls of SQL azure as we have discovered in analyzing SQL Azure as an alternative to onsite SQL Server instances at different clients. ​

Data fuels 21st century business and society. Thanks to the rapid pace of innovation and widespread adoption of information technologies, data has become both a strategic asset and a potentially crippling liability. As consumers grow increasingly concerned about the stewardship of their data, policymakers, academics and advocates around the world are questioning boundaries and considering risks: What is private and what is not? How should organizations explain what they’re doing with data?What should happen when data is stolen or misused? And, in an era of globalization, how do we manage the diverse social and legal expectations?   These questions are urgent in the current business climate where trust in our most basic institutions has been eroded. As organizations cope with growing tension between innovation, privacy and security, they are discovering that appropriate use and protection of data has broad impact on their reputations and bottom lines—a new, holistic ethos of data environmentalism is necessary.