September 19th 2023 - Yorkshire Azure User Group (Leeds Digital Festival)

Introduction

After a short summer hiatus, we are very excited to announce our next in-person event of 2023! Our September event will form part of the 2023 Leeds Digital Festival and will be based in Leeds, hosted at AND Digital's offices close to the station. As usual, we will be running the event from 6-8pm where food and drink will be provided. We will back to the usual schedule of food and networking followed by two 25/30 minute sessions - these will be announced in due course.

Speakers

Lee Byard (Cloud Engineer AND Single Malt Enthusiast at AND Digital) delivering ‘Storage migrations from on-prem to use Azure File Sync and touch on the challenges of AD integration with Azure File Shares’

In this session, Lee will cover:
– Migrating from on-premises Windows File Shares to Azure File Storage with File Sync for local caching.
– How to set up a lab environment for testing/proof of concept
– Secure networking model
– How to seed/copy data to Azure
– Setting up Storage Sync Service and Cache Servers
– How to cut over
– Backups, Monitoring, and Antivirus
– Active Directory integration considerations

Ethan Sumner (FinOps Lead & Principal Consultant at Contino) delivering ‘FinOps on Azure, how to get started’

In this talk, Ethan will be covering what is FinOps, how to get started and the impact of FinOps can have. In addition, he will also talk about FinOps on Azure, the basics, and also a short demo of recently redeveloped cost management tooling.

Venue

AND Digital offices,

6 Wellington Place (3rd floor of Cubo),

Leeds,

LS1 4AP

https://www.and.digital/about/locations

Sponsors

A huge thank you to the folks over at AND Digital for sponsoring this event and supporting the community!