Wednesday
Wednesday 19 October 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Private Clouds Are All About The Application - Virtualization Is Only The Start
Clive Watson, Datacentre Technology Specialist, Microsoft
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Monitoring and management tools that only inspect the operating system and hypervisor layers can miss vital application-layer warnings that can quickly escalate into service outages and effect users of a private cloud. Only Microsoft provides comprehensive monitoring and management solution that covers hardware layer, hypervisor layer, operating system layer, and the application layer. You will get the opportunity for a first glimpse at System Center Operations Manager 2012 and AVIcode.
Wednesday 19 October 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
How NetApp Powers The Microsoft Private Cloud
Jason Monger, Technical Solution Architect, NetApp
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This session describes the advantage that can be gained when Microsoft cloud infrastructure is underpinned with NetApp unified storage. Hear how NetApp facilitates cloud service elasticity, reduces capital and operational costs, enhances performance, and increases availability through highly available solutions with integrated data protection. This session also outlines the unique integration of NetApp and Microsoft System Center Suite, and how NetApp are future proofing your investment in Microsoft cloud technologies.
Wednesday 19 October 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Delivering Cross Platform – Integrating and Using What You Already Have Today
Gavin Kemp, Microsoft
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Did you know that the Microsoft Private Cloud solutions support all the major hypervisors - Hyper-V, ESX, and Xen; operating systems - Linux (Red Hat, SUSE) and CentOS; and key major application development frameworks including Java, PHP, Ruby, in addition to .NET? Well, only Microsoft takes a comprehensive approach that puts your needs ahead of any particular technology. You will get the opportunity for a first glimpse at System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Orchestrator 2012.
Wednesday 19 October 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
EACS: System Center – Realising The Benefits
Paul Wilford, Control and Collaboration Consultant, EACS
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This session will describe the experience of working with a large customer in the banking industry who had a requirement to monitor a large line-of-business application that was not well documented. By creating a distributed application within Systems Centre Operations Manager (SCOM), EACS not only inadvertently documented the system, but also discovered previously unknown information about the supporting and peripheral systems.
Wednesday 19 October 1:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Best-In-Class Performance – The Right Platform For Your Applications
Andrew Fryer, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft
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Application scalability, performance, and availability are key concerns that must be addressed when moving to any private cloud. Hyper-V provides best in class performance and scalability for Microsoft applications like SharePoint, SQL, and Exchange - 450,000 concurrent SharePoint users on one physical server with five VMs; 80,000 OLTP users on one server with four VMs; 20,000 Exchange mailboxes on one server with five VMs. This proves you can virtualize business critical applications on Microsoft Private Cloud with confidence.
Wednesday 19 October 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
RISE: The Cloud On Your Terms – The Hybrid Cloud
Alex Hilton, RISE
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Come and hear Rise, Microsoft’s Global Hosting Partner of the Year 2011 to see a true view and understanding of the Cloud. With confusion around the best way to move your applications to the Cloud, Rise presents how the Hybrid Cloud approach is the ultimate option for the majority of organisations. Offering unique control, capability, versatility and value for customers - See how the Microsoft and Rise partnership enables customers to have a complete portfolio of Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud solutions to be achieved, leveraging the benefits of Office 365 combined with the commercial and operational flexibility of RISE’s ‘Datacentre on Demand’.
Wednesday 19 October 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Cloud On Your Terms – Management Across Private and Public Cloud
Simon May, Technical Evangelist , Microsoft
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Only Microsoft offers the full range of cloud solutions to you - private cloud with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center and public cloud with Windows Azure built on common identity, management, virtualization and fabric and using common development tools. Moreover, using System Center you can provision, secure, manage, and update applications running on Private Clouds, on third-party-hosted clouds, or in Windows Azure. You will get the opportunity for a first glimpse at System Center App Controller and Operations Manager 2012.
Wednesday 19 October 3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Solidsoft: Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform - The Difference It Can Make To Your Business
Andy James, Chief Technology Officer
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Solidsoft, one of Microsoft's leading cloud computing exponents will deliver their vision on how Azure can make a difference to your business. The presentation will cover all the key aspects including how to start your journey to the cloud with Azure, developing, migrating and supporting applications in the cloud and integrating on premise and cloud based applications. Don't wait. Make a difference today!
Wednesday 19 October 3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
The De-Mystification of Windows Azure
Steve Plank, Architect Evangelist – Public Cloud , Microsoft
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The Windows Azure Platform consist broadly of Windows Azure Compute (include Storage), SQL Azure and Windows Azure App Fabric. This session describes each of these environments, their architecture, how they work and how they interact with each other in an application. There will be discussions and descriptions of the features and an analysis of how the Windows Azure Platform relates to cloud technologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. There will also be a brief demo of how an application Is created and deployed using Visual Studio.