Big Data and the Cloud at Microsoft, an Introduction

Please join us for a fun evening at the Microsoft Boulder Office at 1900 15th Street. We will discuss how our product teams such as Bing, SQL Server, Windows Azure, Xbox, and Microsoft Research deal with Big Data. Our public Cloud business, Windows Azure is experiencing exponential growth with enterprise customers. We are preparing Windows Azure, and HDInsight (Hadoop as a Service) to help our customers work with Big Data in the Cloud. We will present some of the technical details of the work in progress.

Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 - Socialize over food and drink
6:30 – 6:45 - Announcements, Upcoming Events
6:45 – 8:30 - Big Data and the Cloud at Microsoft, an Introduction
8:30 – ??? - Continued socializing

About the Speaker

Wenming Ye

After completing his graduate work at CU Boulder, Mr. Ye joined SRI International, where he focused on design and development of innovative wireless, handheld, and Web-based simulation tools and services. Mr. Ye returned to Boulder as a developer on the commercialization team at Tech-X Corp, where he developed and productized large-scale HPC software. Mr. Ye is currently a Senior Research Program Manager responsible for Cloud-based Big Data and Big Compute projects at Microsoft Research Connections.