"Cloud and Azure and Rock and Roll" by David Giard

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s platform for cloud computing. In this presentation, you will learn the advantages of cloud computing in general and Windows Azure in particular. I will demonstrate how to create an Application on the Azure platform using a variety of the Azure tools and how to quickly create a free Azure web site and an Azure Virtual Machine.

About our speaker:

David Giard is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, Microsoft MVP; an ASP.NET Insider, an Azure Insider, a member of the INETA Board of Directors; and on the leadership teams of the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group.

David has presented at dozens of conferences and user groups around the country. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends.

He is the co-author of the Wrox book "Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight."

He is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over two decades.

You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com.