The document discusses Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform. It provides an overview of the platform's infrastructure, services, and pricing models. The key points are:
1. Windows Azure provides infrastructure and services for building applications and storing data in the cloud. It offers compute, storage, database, and connectivity services.
2. The platform's infrastructure includes globally distributed data centers housing servers in shipping containers for high density.
3. Services include SQL Azure, storage, content delivery, queues, and an app development platform. Pricing models are consumption-based or via subscriptions.
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Web Cast sobre SQL Server Data Services.
Saludos,
Eduardo Castro – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
Costa Rica
Representational State Transfer (REST)
IaaS and Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration & Virtualization: Eucalyptus & Amazon
Content Delivery Network (CDN): Facebook and Akamai
PaaS and Container as a Service (CaaS)
PaaS: Google App Engine (GAE) and Ruby on Rails
CaaS: DockerHub
SaaS and Distributed Version Control (DVC)
SaaS: Facebook Testing (Infer and Sapienz)
DVC: GitHub and Git-LFS
Cloud Security and Privacy policies
NIST Guidelines, GDPR, CDN Security
For our next ArcReady, we will explore a topic on everyone’s mind: Cloud computing. Several industry companies have announced cloud computing services . In October 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced the next phase of our Software + Services vision: the Azure Services Platform. The Azure Services Platforms provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on premises environments or the internet.
Session 1: Cloud Services
In our first session we will explore the current state of cloud services. We will then look at how applications should be architected for the cloud and explore a reference application deployed on Windows Azure. We will also look at the services that can be built for on premise application, using .NET Services. We will also address some of the concerns that enterprises have about cloud services, such as regulatory and compliance issues.
Session 2: The Azure Platform
In our second session we will take a slightly different look at cloud based services by exploring Live Mesh and Live Services. Live Mesh is a data synchronization client that has a rich API to build applications on. Live services are a collection of APIs that can be used to create rich applications for your customers. Live Services are based on internet standard protocols and data formats.
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Web Cast sobre SQL Server Data Services.
Saludos,
Eduardo Castro – Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
Costa Rica
Representational State Transfer (REST)
IaaS and Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration & Virtualization: Eucalyptus & Amazon
Content Delivery Network (CDN): Facebook and Akamai
PaaS and Container as a Service (CaaS)
PaaS: Google App Engine (GAE) and Ruby on Rails
CaaS: DockerHub
SaaS and Distributed Version Control (DVC)
SaaS: Facebook Testing (Infer and Sapienz)
DVC: GitHub and Git-LFS
Cloud Security and Privacy policies
NIST Guidelines, GDPR, CDN Security
For our next ArcReady, we will explore a topic on everyone’s mind: Cloud computing. Several industry companies have announced cloud computing services . In October 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced the next phase of our Software + Services vision: the Azure Services Platform. The Azure Services Platforms provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on premises environments or the internet.
Session 1: Cloud Services
In our first session we will explore the current state of cloud services. We will then look at how applications should be architected for the cloud and explore a reference application deployed on Windows Azure. We will also look at the services that can be built for on premise application, using .NET Services. We will also address some of the concerns that enterprises have about cloud services, such as regulatory and compliance issues.
Session 2: The Azure Platform
In our second session we will take a slightly different look at cloud based services by exploring Live Mesh and Live Services. Live Mesh is a data synchronization client that has a rich API to build applications on. Live services are a collection of APIs that can be used to create rich applications for your customers. Live Services are based on internet standard protocols and data formats.
This is a presentation I delivered at CodeMash 2.0.1.0 dealing with lessons learned while building an application for handling the post-processing of scientific data using the Windows Azure platform.
Samedi SQL Québec - La plateforme data de AzureMSDEVMTL
6 juin 2015
Samedi SQL à Québec
Session 3 - Data (SQL Azure, Table et Blob Storage) (Eric Moreau)
SQL Azure est une base de données relationnelle en tant que service, Azure Storage permet de stocker et d'extraire de gros volumes de données non structurées (par exemple, des documents et fichiers multimédias) avec les objets blob Azure ; de données NoSql structurées avec les tables Azure ; de messages fiables avec les files d'attente Azure.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. State of Cloud Computing Perceptions “The end of software” On-demand infrastructure Cheaper and better Reality Hybrid world; not “all-or-nothing” Leverage existing IT skills and investments Seamless user experiences Evolutionary; not revolutionary Drivers Ease-of-use, convenience Product effectiveness Simplify IT, reduce costs Types Public Private Internal External Hybrid Categories SaaS PaaS IaaS
3. Microsoft in the Cloud (6 years) 4B emails/day (7 years) 5B conf min/yr (15 years) 450M+ active users (11 years) 2B queries/mth (11 years) 320M+ active users (12 years) Largest non- ICP/IP cloud service x100M users (13 years) 550M users/mth (15 years) 450M+ active users
4. Bing – “Auto Pilot” Architecture ~100,000 Servers in Multiple Data Centers Data Repositories Web & Structured Data Indices Query Analysis & Processing Front-End UX Internet
5. Generalized Cloud Application Model Always Available Service-Oriented Model-Driven Scale-Out Staged Production Self-Service Failure Resilient Federated Multi-Tenant Elastic
15. The Microsoft Cloud ~100 Globally Distributed Data Centers Quincy, WA Chicago, IL San Antonio, TX Dublin, Ireland Generation 4 DCs
16. The Microsoft Cloud Highly available, scalable, and consistent application fabric environment
17. Categories of Services Application Services Software Services Platform Services Infrastructure Services The Microsoft Cloud
18. Application Marketplace Information Marketplace Personal Data Repository Application Services Workflow Hosting Distributed Cache Services Hosting Frameworks Claims-Based Identity Federated Identities Secure Token Service Declarative Policies Security Composite Applications On-Premise Bridging Service Bus Connectivity Transact-SQL Data Synchronization Relational Database ADO.NET, ODBC, PHP Data Compute C / C++ Win32 VHD Unstructured Data Blobs Message Queues Distributed Filesystem Content Distribution Storage Windows Azure Platform
19. Application Services “Dublin” “Velocity” Frameworks “Geneva” Security Access Control Project “Sydney” Connectivity Service Bus SQL Azure Data Sync Data Compute Windows Azure Platform Table Storage Blob Storage Queue Drive Content Delivery Network Storage
20. Windows Azure Compute Development, service hosting, & management environment .NET, Java PHP, Python, Ruby, native code (C/C++, Win32, etc.) ASP.NET providers, FastCGI, memcached, MySQL, Tomcat Full-trust – supports standard languages and APIs Secure certificate store Management API’s, and logging and diagnostics systems Multiple roles – Web, Worker, Virtual Machine (VHD) Multiple VM sizes 1.6 GHz CPU x64, 1.75GB RAM, 100Mbps network, 250GB volatile storage Small (1X), Medium (2X), Large (4X), X-Large (8X) In-place rolling upgrades, organized by upgrade domains Walk each upgrade domain one at a time Compute
21. Windows Azure Diagnostics Configurable trace, performance counter, Windows event log, IIS log & file buffering Local data buffering quota management Query & modify from the cloud and from the desktop per role instance Transfer to storage scheduled & on-demand Filter by data type, verbosity & time range Compute
22. Windows Azure Storage Rich data abstractions – tables, blobs, queues, drives, CDN Capacity (100TB), throughput (100MB/sec), transactions (1K req/sec) High accessibility Supports geo-location Language & platform agnostic REST APIs URL: http://<account>.<store>.core.windows.net Client libraries for .NET, Java, PHP, etc. High durability – data is replicated 3 times within a cluster, and (Feb 2010) across datacenters High scalability – data is automatically partitioned and load balanced across servers Storage Storage
23. Windows Azure Table Storage Designed for structured data, not relational data Data definition is part of the application A Table is a set of Entities (records) An Entity is a set of Properties (fields) No fixed schema Each property is stored as a <name, typed value> pair Two entities within the same table can have different properties No schema is enforced Table Storage
24. Windows Azure Blob Storage Storage for large, named files plus their metadata Block Blob Targeted at streaming workloads Each blob consists of a sequence of blocks Each block is identified by a Block ID Size limit 200GB per blob Page Blob Targeted at random read/write workloads Each blob consists of an array of pages Each page is identified by its offset from the start of the blob Size limit 1TB per blob Blob Storage
25. Windows Azure Queue Performance efficient, highly available and provide reliable message delivery Asynchronous work dispatch Inter-role communication Polling based model; best-effort FIFO data structure Queue operations Create Queue Delete Queue List Queues Get/Set Queue Metadata Message operations Add Message Get Message(s) Peek Message(s) Delete Message Queue
26. Windows Azure Drive Provides a durable NTFS volume for Windows Azure applications to use Use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive Durability and survival of data on application failover Enables migrating existing NTFS applications to the cloud Drives can be up to 1TB; a VM can dynamically mount up to 8 drives A Windows Azure Drive is a Page Blob Example, mount Page Blob as X:br />http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob> All writes to drive are made durable to the Page Blob Drive made durable through standard Page Blob replication Drive
27. Windows Azure Content Delivery Network Provides high-bandwidth global blob content delivery 18 locations globally (US, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America), and growing Blob service URL vs. CDN URL Blob URL: http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/ CDN URL: http://<guid>.vo.msecnd.net/ Support for custom domain names Access details Blobs are cached in CDN until the TTL passes Use per-blob HTTP Cache-Control policy for TTL (new) CDN provides only anonymous HTTP access Content Delivery Network
28. SQL Azure Highly available, scalable, and consistent distributed relational database; geo-replication and geo-location of data Relational database, provided as a service Highly symmetrical development and tooling experience (use TDS protocol and T-SQL) Highly scaled out, on commodity hardware Built on the SQL Server technology foundation Editions: Web (1GB), Business (10GB) Data
29. SQL Azure Data Sync Tools for data synchronization with SQL Azure Connect on-premises apps with the cloud Create cached-mode clients Built on Microsoft Sync Framework and ADO.NET Sync Services SQL Azure Data Sync
30. AppFabric Service Bus Securely connect applications Over the internet Across any network topology Across organizational boundaries Primary application patterns Eventing– notify applications and/or devices Service Remoting– securely project on-premises services out to the cloud Tunneling– app-to-app communication with NAT/Firewall traversal Connectivity Service Bus
31. AppFabric Access Control Provides outsourcing of claims-based access control for REST web services Key capabilities: Usable from any platform Low friction way to onboard new clients Integrates with ADFS v2 Supports OAuth WRAP / SWT Enables simple delegation Used today by Service Bus and “Dallas” Security Access Control
32. “Geneva” Next generation identity and access management platform Claims-based access and single sign-on for on-premise and cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web “Geneva Framework“ (Windows Identity Foundation) Provides .NET development tools, which includes pre-built, user-access logic that externalizes authentication from applications. It helps developers build claims-aware .NET applications, plus build custom security token services (STS) “Geneva Server“ An STS for IT that issues and transforms claims and other tokens, manages user access and enables federation and access management for simplified single sign-on “Geneva” “CardSpace Geneva” For helping users navigate between multiple logons for simplified single sign-on while providing complete user control and transparency for how personal information is shared
33. “Velocity” Distributed in-memory cache platform for developing scalable, available, and highly-performance applications Caches any serializable CLR object and provides access through simple cache APIs Supports enterprise scale: tens to hundreds of computers Configurable to run as a service accessed over the network “Velocity” Supports dynamic scaling and automatic load balancing Supports continuous availability of cached data by storing copies on separate cache hosts Integration with administration and monitoring tools such as Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and System Center.
34. “Dublin” Evolution of WAS/IIS and Windows App Server role to run and manage WF and WCF services Enhances the hosting of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) in the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) Simplified deployment and management of WCF and WF services hosted in WAS Configuration of persistence for durable workflows Customizable tracking profiles with dedicated, queryable storage for tracked data Customizable monitoring of hosted services “Dublin”
35. “Dallas” Information-as-a-service Discover, acquire, and consume structured, blob, and real-time data to power any application – on any platform and any screen size Brokerage Business – partner driven ecosystem and global reach to deliver data and functionality to developers and information workers Analytics and Reporting – single click analysis to augment private data with public data Built on Windows Azure and SQL Azure
36. Application Services “Dublin” “Velocity” Frameworks “Geneva” Security Access Control Project “Sydney” Connectivity Service Bus SQL Azure Data Sync Data Compute Windows Azure Platform Table Storage Blob Storage Queue Drive Content Delivery Network Storage
39. Sign up at the Windows Azure Platform developers’ portal Windows Azure access Developer tools White papers Sample applications Plan pilot applications, proofs of concept, and architectural design sessions with Windows Azure partners http://www.azure.com
41. Purchasing Models Subscription Additional Licensing Consumption “Pay as you go and grow” “Value for a commitment“ “Coordinated purchasing” Planned for post PDC Select offers available Jan 2010 Available Jan 2010 Discounts for commitment Plans for paymentpredictability Low barrier to entry & flexibility Optimized for cloud elasticity Centralized purchasing experience Introduction to volume discounts Promotional Offers Partner Discount Development Pricing Integration withPrograms
42. Pay as you go and grow for only what you use when you use it Elastic, scalable, secure, & highly available automated service platform Highly available, scalable, and self managed distributed database service Business Edition Storage Compute Web Edition $99.99/month(up to 10 GB DB/month) $9.99/month(up to 1 GB DB/month) Per service hour Per database/month Per GB stored & transactions Per database/month $0.12/hour + Variable Instance Sizes $0.15 GB/month $0.01/10K transactions Scalable, automated, highly available services for secure connectivity Access Control Service Bus $0.015/10k Message Operations $0.015/10k Message Operations Per Message Operation Per Message Operation Prices shown in USD only Consumption Pricing
43. Introductory Special MSDN Premium Biz Spark One Anyone can try the platform at no charge (monthly service allocations) Investing in high potential start-ups; receive full platform services at no charge Subscribers receive monthly allocation of platform services at no additional charge Development Accelerator Core Extended 1. Accelerate cloud development projects 2. Flexible consumption (flex # of instances) 3. Predictable payments (6 mo subscription) 4. Exceptional value (discounted price) Includes Core plus SQL Azure Business Edition Includes Windows Azure compute, storage, storage transactions, data transfer, & message operations Promotional Offers & Programs
44. Introductory Special MSDN Premium Biz Spark One Offer MSDN Premium subscribers Limit of one per MSDN subscription 8 month term Limited time offer thru 7/31/10 Overage at partner Consumption rates Available to all partners & customers Limit of one per customer Promotion ends 6/30/10 Overage charged at Consumption rates Available for selected startups Program participation is by invitation only Program available in 10 countries Amount of Windows Azure platform services included per month at no charge Windows Azure Compute 25 Hrs Storage 0.5 GB Storage X-actions 10K SQL Azure 1 Web Edition DB (1GB DB for 90 day trial) Message Operations Messages 100K Data transfer 0.5 GB In & 0.5GB Out Amount of Windows Azure Platform services will vary by customer Windows Azure Compute 750 hrs Storage 10 GB Storage X-actions 1M SQL Azure 3 Web Edition DB (1 GB) Message Operations Messages 1 Million Data transfer 7GB In & 14GB Out N.A/EU 2.5GB In / 5GB Out Asia Pacific Additional 5% off for partners (except storage & data transfers) Promotional Offers & Programs
45. 6 month subscription offered at 42%-46% off consumption prices Offered as a monthly “unit” (you can order multiple “units”) Overage charged at Consumption rates Promotional offer, expires 6/30/2010 for new subscriptions EXTENDED CORE Windows Azure Compute 750 hrs Storage 10 GB Storage X-actions 1M Includes CORE plus SQL Azure Business Edition (10 GB) Message Operations Messages 1 M Data transfer 7GB In/14GB Out N.A & EU 2.5GB In/5GB Out Asia Pacific Monthly price Monthly price $109.95 (46% off consumption prices) $59.95 (42% off consumption prices) Additional 5% off for partners (except storage & data transfers) Development Accelerator Offer