My focus this week is to learn as much about Microsofts technology, strategy, and capability regarding BPOS, Wave 14, cloud (azure & more), virtualization (server & desktop), and exchange 2010 offerings that I can soak in. Doing this on an iPad is an interesting challenge.
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Keynote Session
The Keynote address was given from Bob Muglia, President of Microsoft's Server and Business Tools.
Here is a summary of the various announcements made during the keynote address:
· SQL Azure has storage limits raised to 50G
· SQL Azure now has accommodations for spacial data
· Windows Azure - .net version 4 is now supported.
· Windows Azure – Intellitrace (Tivo like Debug capability)
· Opalis – included in Microsoft Systems Operations Manager (This enables production automation of processes)
· Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 & Windows 7 SP1 will go Beta in July
· Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta:
o Main features of 2008 R2 SP1 -
- Microsoft Remote FX (High Definition remote desktop experience),
- Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V
· AppFabric is an application that connections Windows Azure back to applications and databases running back at the homefront.
· Windows intune - cloud based desktop management.
o Inventory and asset management
o System patching assurance
o Anti-malware
Most of the Keynote Session focused on the benefits of cloud computing. Here is a summary of my hasty written notes:
1.) The Server dimension- just in time scaling
a. There is a new hardware model (stop worrying about the hardware)
b. There is a new application model (deploy anywhere concept)
c. There is a new operations model (referring to SCOM for cloud management)
d. We need to extend our identity to the cloud using ADFS
2.) The cloud enables professional & social interaction (facebook & Twitter) exchange online, sharepoint online, UM online.
3.) Wave14 (Mr. Gurdeep Singh Pall)
a. Communicator now has a messenger look and feel
b. There are pictures for the user icons – pulled from sharepoint
c. It is now a “complete softphone”
d. There is a transcribed VoiceMail
e. This was cool – a new piece of meta data you can search on: "skill"
i. You can then search in your organization for someone who has the meta-tag associated with them. For example “.net development”
f. 720p video
g. Policy capability for network bandwidth utilization based on user/location
h. Powerpoint sharing in the app
i. Built in whiteboard
j. e911 support
4.) The cloud wants smarter devices. (Here comes Windows7 Phone)
a. It has a custom portal look and feel to it – using multi-touch technology much like the iPhone.
b. Has a separate “portal” screen for personal and business customizations.
c. You can sort your email by unread – something I wish I could do on my iPhone.
d. It is integrated with Sharepoint – retrieve, edit, and save new versions of documents back to Sharepoitn 2010.
e. For example, Augusto Valdez pulled down an excel document – modified a cell with a comment – saved it and pulled it up on his PC.
5.) Internet Explorer 9 is coming – with full HTML5 compliant support
6.) The cloud learns:
a. Excel 2010 has business intelligence built into it – they demo’d a rather compelling demonstration.
b. Excel 2010 - 100 million rows on a laptop
c. Excel 2010 has SQL azure connectors and can use any odata datasource
(netfkix database)
d. You can save excel documents to sharepoint and then manipulate the data like a common business intelligence application would. Analyze dimensions, etc.
e. powerpivot for Excel Services – built into Sharepoint 2010
f. Bing map API integration
A note from Tony Scott – “eat your own dogfood.” He said that moving your exchange and sharepoint implementations to the cloud at this point was a “no-brainer” business decision, and more is to come. He recommends getting started on Azure now.
The Chicago Tribune has moved several production critical applications to run on Windows Azure.
One final comment for this morning: All of these new applications are very integrated with Sharepoint. It is empirical that the Sharepoint 2010 (with BPOS capability) be deployed as a foundational measure.
Here's a screen shot of wave14 in action:
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