PDC2008 Experience: Day 1 (Keynote)
Got woken up by a garbage truck this morning at 5:00am which stinks.
We had to let at least one bus go by because it was full. Off to PDC for breakfast. Breakfast was typical; cereal, coffee, bagels, and fruit.
At the keynote, they were streaming on the screens real time (almost) tweets and flickr feeds.
Channel 9 guy walked by a few minutes before the keynote started.
Ozzie Smith talked at first about Cloud Computing and why it has come about.
Windows Azure
Windows Azure announced. Windows in a cloud. It is being released as a community preview release. More features will be released in time. Services layers (outlined in the image).
Azure will be free for now, later on it will be a pay for service based on usage and uptime.
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| Live Serrvices | .NET Services | SQL Services | Sharepoint Services | Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services |
Windows Azure Features - Scalable, available hosting platform
- Rich Developer experience
- Model-driven service life cycle management
- Enterprise - ready and hobbyist-friendly
.NET Services - Service Bus
- Access Control
- Users control their own identities
- Single, federated identity platform
- Open and interoperable.
- Workflow Services
Identity 
Microsoft SQL Services  - Database
- Data Sync
- Reporting
- Data Mining
- ETL
- Reference Data
On Premises Platform compared to Azure Services Platform.   Microsoft Online Services Cloud Application 
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All images can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31874531@N08/tags/pdc2008/