10.13am: This is it for today and tomorrow will focus on the Computing Experience. Thanks all.
10.10am: Azure.com is live and open for start playing with the services. SDK is up and people can start using it right now. 2008/09 will be timing for testing and development before it gets released commercially.
10.08am: Ray Ozzie is back on Stage summarizing the news that were delivered today.
10.05am: Demoing a Silverlight app that showcases end to end scenario of Federated services with a CRM application using a Silverlight portal.
10.00am: Showcasing the setup of Microsoft Services Connector, which will allow companies to Federate their “on promise” services with the cloud services. – Looks powerful and really straight forward.
9.54am: All Microsoft’s enterprise services moving forward will be enabled with the possibility for an online service, either provided by Microsoft or 3rd Party Partners.
9.52am: Talking about Customer Challenges face in today’s IT shops.
9.48am: On-Premises Platform translates to Cloud Services, allowing companies to transition and inter collaborate among services as needed and scalable per demand.
9.42am: Showcasing a LOB Cloud app, supported by a LOB Silverlight application. – side note: MSFT u guys have to work better on your demo’s so far nothing really cool.
9.35am: Inviting Red Prairie to demo Product Recall solution running on top of Azure.
9.33am: Introducing SQL Services = Database + Data Sync + Reporting + Data Mining + ETL + Reference Data
9.30am: Service Bus is the way enterprises will get their “On Promises” services to connect securely to the cloud. Access Control is the federation between identity services. Workflow Services will allow workflows to span from within the enterprise and into the cloud making them available to everyone.
9.29am: Introducing .NET Services = Service Bus + Access Control + Workflow Services.
9.27am: Talking about the requirements needed for a successful cloud infrastructure
9.25am: Introducing the 5th Generation of Computing: Services. 1st (1970’s) Monolithic, 2nd (1980’s) Client-Server, 3rd (1990’s) Web, 4th (Today) SOA. 5th is based on all 4 prior tiers and build upon to provide the best of all them all. Enabling scale out services across a set of devices today.
9.22am: Now welcoming Bob Muglia.
9.18am: showcasing the Azure Management Console. Showing the configuration setting of instances for services which can just be switch and swap as needed. As easy even a CEO can do it ;-)
9.16am: Bluehoo.com is on stage to show how they built an application for the cloud.
9.15am: ASP.NET Dev skills will make you a Cloud Developer already. There will be a “Cloud on your Desktop” simulation environment to help Developers debug their applications locally. Applications build in the cloud can be accessed using the http://yourapp.cloudapp.net
9.11am: Demo, how to build and deploy a “Hello World” service in Windows Azure.
9.09am: Apps and Services are isolated between them making applications run independent in a high availability model.
9.05am: Apps and OS services are managed separately, making the application publication and execution management as easy as the current model of monolithic OS. Fabric Controller is the name of the Service Manager that will make the magic happen, making your services work in a stable, high scalable way.
9.03am: HiperV seats as a key player in the way Azure run. Azure is an OS that seats distributed geographically, including managing the global data center infrastructure.
9.00am: SQL Data Services are been renamed to SQL Services. Plus Live Services, .NET Services, SharePoint Services and Dynamic CRM Services, define the pillars that will empower and run on top of the Windows Azure infrastructure.
8.57am: Windows Azure is not a server to run in the enterprise but rather a service that runs a set of distribute infrastructure is been released today as a CTP with just a fracture of all the services that are coming later as part of this new effort.
8.56am: To leverage the Windows brand it has to provide the same foundations to developers as present in the rest of the Windows Family.
8:54am: Announcing Windows Azure: Windows in the Cloud, with support for RIA distribution. Service based Operation Environment for a platform that will empower the future of experiences.
8.53am: Ray is acknowledging Amazon innovations with EC2 and says all of the other cloud providers will be walking on their shoulders to differentiate.
8.51am: Ray is introducing the different tiers of the technology experience: Tier 1 is the personal computing, Tier 2 enterprise level one and Tier 3 is of the size of the web.
8.47am: Talking about the cost and complexity of building secure, effective infrastructures in a world of global customers in a way that is efficient, always on, and available as needed whenever needed. Making relevance to a shared infrastructure build for the demands of the Web today and with the capacity to scale as the world demands.
8.45am: Talking about how the world of communication has made the web become a key generational demand mechanism, setting expectations higher than ever in the way people interact inter office as in their personal life.
8.40am: This morning you will learn Microsoft’s takes in the revolution of S+S with a strategy merging Services, Tools and the Infrastructure itself.
8.39am: Talking about his experience as a developer and how Microsoft is key at making ISVs been successful with the platform they build and the innovation across the infrastructure.
8.35am: Ray Ozzie takes the stages and welcomes everyone.
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Alright it’s Monday, October 27th 2008 and things are getting ready to rock on for Microsoft’s most important conference in the last few years.
I happen to be one of the dudes with the best seat in the house which I am sharing with great guys like Coding Horror’s Jeff Atwood, Kip Kniskern from LiveSide and Walt Ritscher from WPF Wonderland.
I will be live blogging from the event here, so make sure u keep refreshing this post for news just as they happen.
Cheers!
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