Eric D. Boyd, Founder + CEO of responsiveX, will be presenting three sessions at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas taking place at the Mirage Resort & Casino, March 26th-30th, 2012. All three sessions are about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure and you can find out more about each session below.
Mobile Cloud: Using the Windows Azure Toolkit for Mobile Devices
March 28, 2012 @ 4:00 PM
Most consumers expect cloud services without ever thinking about “The Cloud”. As consumers, we use services like Gmail, Dropbox, twitter and even Xbox Live and we expect our information to be available from any location and on all of our devices. When creating quality, mobile apps, we should provide a similar experience because our customers expect it. The Cloud enables startups and mobile developers to provide the same user experience as large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. It levels the playing field and eliminates the upfront investment previously required for servers and datacenters.
Eric D. Boyd will present the common scenarios for incorporating Cloud services into your mobile apps. Eric will take us through Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Windows Azure and get us equipped with the necessary tools to build cloud services for our mobile apps using Windows Azure. Eric will also demonstrate how to create Windows Phone apps with Windows Azure services and point us to some tools that will help with Windows Phone development.
Moving Web Apps to the Cloud
March 29th, 2012 @ 9:30 AM
As a developer with years of experience developing web apps using ASP.NET, SQL Server, Windows Server and Active Directory, how do you move to the cloud with Windows Azure? How can you apply your existing skills and experience to developing cloud apps in Windows Azure? In this session, we will take a simple, traditional ASP.NET app and walk through the migration to Windows Azure. We’ll discuss the important considerations, practices, architectural differences, challenges, advantages and economic benefits to consider when migrating to Windows Azure.
SQL Azure Intro and What’s New
March 29th, 2012 @ 11:00 AM
Windows Azure provides many options for storing data. SQL Azure is Windows Azure’s solution for working with relational data. If you are familiar with SQL Server, SQL Azure will be a natural extension of your knowledge and skills.
In this session, you will get introduced to SQL Azure and learn how to get started. We will explore how to migrate an existing on-premise SQL Server database to SQL Azure. We will then walkthrough how to manage and administer your SQL Azure servers and databases. We will take a look at how to connect and build applications using SQL Azure. Next, we will look at more advanced scenarios using new capabilities like reporting with SQL Azure Reporting, scaling and sharding databases with SQL Azure Federations and synchronizing data with SQL Azure Data Sync for hybrid scenarios and global reach. Finally, we will explore some of the things you should consider when using SQL Azure.
