NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group

Windows Azure Platform Overview

Presented by: Bill Zack

Perhaps you've heard of Azure but aren't sure how it differs from other clouds. You will leave with an understanding of the platform's features and use cases.

Bill will provide a quick introduction to the entire Windows Azure Platform and its key features such as Compute, Storage and Database plus assorted Windows Azure middleware features such as Service Bus, Access Control, Traffic Manager, Connect and Media Services.

The PaaS Jailbreaker

Presented by: Shay Hassidim

The session will cover the following:

The Difference Between PaaS and DevOps Putting DevOps & PaaS togatehr What Makes a Cloudify a PaaS Jailbreaker? Quick Introduction to Cloudify Recipes

About Shay:

Shay has been with GigaSpaces since the inception of the company, charting the Technology Direction and Product Evolution from Caching, to Elastic Application Scaling to fully functional Hybrid Cloud Platform solution. Shay studied at Ben-Gurion University with a concentration in advanced computational science and programming. Shay leads GigaSpace’s developer community and shares the vision of Next Generation IT infrastructure platform in a consultative practice of innovation creation for fortune 100 level financial customers in the North East.