Windows Azure and Lab Webinar
Cloud Computing is one of the most talked about buzz words these days. But what is it? What is Windows Azure? Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud platform that allows you to build and deploy highly available and scalable apps using .NET (or Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby).
As a student, why do I need to know about Cloud?
Two reasons:
- Students, like you, are dreaming big. You’re building apps for your start-up, whether they are web app or mobile apps, that you want the whole world to use. When you’re looking to build something like that, you need a platform that can actually scale up to handle the whole world.
- The IT industry is on the verge of the cloud computing revolution and most companies are looking into Cloud strategies and roadmaps. When you graduate, whether it’s next year, or years after that, employers will be looking for, if not expecting, you to have the for knowledge and expertise in this area.
So now it’s up to you to take the plunge – become tomorrow’s thought leader in this space and differentiate yourself amongst your fellow students. You don’t have to, and shouldn’t, wait to get started.
So how do I get started?
If you’re off for the summer, great! More time to learn. If you’ve just started your summer semester, then there isn’t as much time to learn, but learning in short intervals of time will definitely get the job done (like your mother and/or father used to say when you were in grade school - “You have to do a little bit of homework everyday”).
Join me for a 3-part webinar series where we can get together and explore how to build solutions for the Cloud. You’ll see how developing and deploying applications to Windows Azure is fast and easy, leveraging the skills you already have (.NET, Java, PHP, or Ruby) and the tools you already know (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.), all in the comfort of your own chair, at the library, in the lab, at home, or in res.
We’ll go through an overview of Windows Azure, making sure that you learn everything to you need to know to get up and running with Windows Azure. We’ll cover the Windows Azure platform itself, the Windows Azure SDK, and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010. We’ll then apply the concepts as we migrate a traditional on-premise ASP.NET MVC application to Windows and SQL Azure.
Think of this webinar like a lab. It’s hands-on (just minus having to submit it at the end to be graded) meaning you’ll be following along in your own environment and, by the end of the webinar, your application will be running on Windows Azure!
Click here for the webinar details.
We’re just going to cover the basics, but you’ll soon find that you’ll be wanting to learn more about this exciting platform. Hopefully that’ll be the case, at which point, all you have to do is comment on this post, let me know and I’ll make sure that we continue the Windows Azure conversation moving forward.
Looking forward to seeing you on the webinar.