The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Central and South America following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. Teletica's interactive media manager, Luis Zarnowski, highlighted the effectiveness of using Windows Azure for rapid deployment of their site and essential applications. Microsoft emphasizes interoperability with various open-source platforms and provides extensive support for multiple technologies, enabling improved cloud services and development environments.

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5. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami
warning for the Pacific coast of most of Central and
South America.
“We couldn’t report breaking news, much less
interact with our users, and we needed an
immediate solution,” Luis Zarnowski, Interactive
Media Manager, Teletica
7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Wreaked Havoc
Tsunami Warning

6. Solution: Windows Azure
“able to reliably
host our website
with its high
volume traffic,
we were also
able to deploy
the application
our users so
desperately
needed in about
45 minutes,”
Zarnowski ,
Teletica
An open and flexible cloud platform

7. Surprise?
It’s Open Source
“The idea of interoperability was
a fundamental factor here
because the applications they
had were open source, but that
was no obstacle for us,” Yuri
Poras, Director of New
Technology, Microsoft Costa Rica

8. Mixed IT Customers

10. Investing in Standards
150+
standards organizations
400+
working groups

11. Microsoft Contributes

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17. Microsoft + Linux
• Linux runs as a first-
class guest on Windows
Server Hyper-V
• Supported on Windows
Azure Virtual Machines
(CentOS, openSUSE,
SUSE, Ubuntu)
“Microsoft is playing quite
nicely with Linux and other
open source tools. “
-Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise

18. Microsoft + Apache Hadoop
• Embracing the Big Data
revolution with
enterprise-ready Hadoop
as part of Windows Azure
HDInsight & Microsoft
HDInsight for Windows
Server
• Utilize Microsoft BI tools
to unleash data insights
from all your data,
including those in
Hadoop

19. Microsoft + Java
• Great Java experience
on Windows Server
and Windows Azure
• Windows Azure plug-
in for Eclipse with
Java

20. Microsoft + PHP
• Impressive
performance on
Windows Server and
Windows Azure
• Open source
community
development of PHP
on Windows right
alongside Linux

21. Microsoft + Firefox
• Well supported across
Microsoft cloud
services (Bing, Office
365, SkyDrive, Skype)
• Windows Media Player
Firefox Plug-in
• msnNOW for Firefox

22. Microsoft + Drupal
• Improved
interoperability with
Drupal to better
manage web content
• Microsoft WebMatrix
makes it easy for
anyone to create and
manage a Drupal site

23. Microsoft + Node.js
• Support for a new
class of real-time
applications
• Improved Windows
and Linux experience
• Windows Azure SDK
for Node.js

24. “A few years back, a patch
submission from coders at
Microsoft would have been
amazing to the point of
unthinkable, but the battles
are mostly over and times
have changed.
Microsoft + SAMBA
• Submitted a patch to
the Samba code to
improve
interoperability,
contributed under
GPL2+
• Working with the
Samba team to
support SMB protocol

26. Add Start-up Support

27. Add Local Partners

29. •MS Open Tech brings a new WebSQL plugin for Apache Cordova and enhancements
to the popular Contacts plugin
•6 things you need to do to port your Cocos2D-x game to Windows devices
•Streamlined Video Content Management with Orchard and Azure Media Services
•Cocos2d-x 3.0 coming to Windows Devices
•Cocos2d-X Performance Enhancements: A 25% improvement that may save your life!
•Acceptance of Media Source Extensions as W3C Candidate Recommendation will
accelerate adoption of dash.js
•Apache Cordova 3.2 is here along with enhanced support for Windows devices
•GDC Next, Windows QuickStart Challenge and Cocos2D-X
•Easily port your Cocos2D-X game to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
•Add a pinch of Pointer Events to your Apache Cordova or PhoneGap app

31. • Streamlined Video Content Management with Orchard and Azure Media Services
• Simple Ways to Deploy VM Depot Open Source Stacks on Azure
• VM Depot Now Landing in China!
• VM Depot Crosses Another Milestone
• Tutorial: Finding Virtual Machine Images for Windows Azure in VM Depot
• Redis on Windows – new version and NuGet Packages
• Redis on Windows – stable and reliable
• One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows, MS Open Tech releases 64-
bit and Azure installer
• Getting Started with VM Depot
• Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows

33. Automation scenarios for Azure
Development Testing
StagingProduction

34. • Puppet Module Updates to Better Manage Microsoft Azure Resources
• Enjoy Spring, and new updates to our Open Source Azure Storage Plugin for
Jenkins
• Please pass the Salt!
• Vagrant Supports Hyper-V “out of the box”
• Using Chef to Manage Windows Azure Resources
• Vagrant and Hyper-V Provides Managed DevOps Work Environments
• New release – Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces)
• Windows Azure Provisioning of Linux and Windows via Puppet
• A sneak peek at four new Nagios and Zabbix plugins for Windows Azure
• New Hudson plugin using Windows Azure Storage as a repository

35. VM Depot – OSS VMs for Azure
Using VM Depot
Contributing to VM Depot