Best practices in the Identity Management world come hard-won, and are often discovered only after going down paths that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, only to find they don’t scale or adapt to new business requirements. Projects fail for many non-technical reasons – politics, resistance to change, poor data […]
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In this session, learn about the DPC (Database Private Cloud) Reference Architecture and how it can be used to consolidate thousands of databases on a single scalable platform. The session will drill into the hardware and software configuration and cover how its wired together. We will cover the use cases, […]
Node.js is a platform for building fast, high-scale applications in JavaScript. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that allows developers to quickly and easily create everything from simple websites to high-scale real-time applications. In this session you will learn how to build, deploy, and host your Node.js application on […]
In this session, William Tulloch and Mahesh Krishnan, authors of the book "Introducing .NET 4.5" talk about all the new stuff in .NET 4.5. If there is one session that you want to go to that covers all the important bits in .NET 4.5, this is it. Presented by William […]
There are numerous options available for data storage available on Windows Azure and it can be very difficult to pick the right one for a given application profile. This session will evaluate many of the various storage options available to the Azure developer in terms of their: – Ease of […]
Here’s a bit of a look outside the sessions at TechEd 2012: Last night at the Marketplace Awesome driving games Busy but worth it! Lego(tm) that LegoRepublic would be jealous of! Yes – that *is* a see through interactive monitor of sorts Get your photo taken with a Halo 4 […]
Architecting a private cloud presents many complex design decisions and technology tradeoffs. These decisions touch areas such as network topologies, storage architecture selection, performance, reliability, security, dynamic virtual machine deployment, and interoperability with existing architecture. This talk presents a few canonical architectures that highlight interesting design decisions of a private […]
It’s begun.. Someone directing music on stage…Already I’m sensing a pattern. Using Fairlight’s innovation in the 80s to help redefine some of the music genre… However the theme is clear … standing on the shoulders of giants. Jason Silva intros…he’s a filmmaker. Ideas evolve… secondary evolution? Lots of words… lots […]
The IT kickoff session has begun with special guest speaker Jeff Woolsey from the Windows Server & Cloud area from Microsoft. Jeff outlines the analysis that has gone into Windows Server 2012 in particular the pillars of the platform; datacentre, modern apps, any data and people-centric IT. “Cloud OS” is […]
We officially took off from Canberra at 8:30am winging it to the Gold Coast via Sydney airport. The one major advantage for me was being able to test out my Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones. Success! What a difference, although I found that, initially, they did play a bit of […]
It’s been a massive week for Microsoft. We are really in full swing when it comes to the largest release cycle in Microsoft’s history. It all began on Wednesday at 10 AM PST (Pacific) which is an appallingly wee-hours 3 AM AEST (Australian East). Insomnia had gripped me, so with […]
Hi All. This is a quick post to introduce you to SQL Server Data Tools – support and tools for database developers. Introduction Recently, I started a new solution in Visual Studio 2010. There is a need to build and maintain a database schema (for SQL Server 2008 R2), so […]
The series so far: Part 1 – Setting up TFS Azure Part 2 – Configuring Visual Studio to use TFS Azure Part 3 – Registering Team Build controllers for TFS Azure Part 4 – Builds in the Cloud (this article) Introduction Following on from an earlier series of articles on […]
A double feature – two related posts in the same day! The Essential Question Following on from my earlier article on setting up a development environment for Windows Phone 7 development, the next obvious question to answer is: “what to build?”. Never has there been a more appropriate time to […]
Microsoft will be introducing a new file format (VHDX) for virtual hard disks as part of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. The original format (VHD) has been around for many years, the new format provides a host of additional benefits. At a glance, the new format supports up to 64 […]