Discover how Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Windows 8.1 work together to help you to provision and manage cloud and data center infrastructure, provide business continuity, deliver services, and manage applications.
This document discusses Microsoft technologies for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud architectures including System Center, Azure, Office 365, and Windows Server. It highlights capabilities for identity management, virtualization, applications, mobility, and infrastructure management across diverse environments. Key benefits outlined include enabling users to work productively from any location while maintaining security and compliance.
WVD Partner Event 17 feb 2020 - Microsoft Slideskiefter
This document discusses the benefits of migrating virtual desktop infrastructure from an on-premises deployment to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) on Azure. It highlights potential cost savings from WVD's optimized infrastructure with higher utilization, pay-as-you-go pricing model, and licensing benefits. These savings can come from reduced infrastructure, licensing, and labor costs compared to traditional on-premises VDI. The document also provides an example cost comparison showing over 65% savings from migrating two user groups to WVD.
Virtual desktops are getting a lot of attention, changing the way many companies think about desktops.
And that's great, but are they right for you?
View the slide deck, presented as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out exactly what a virtual desktop infrastructure is, what issues you should be aware of, the key players in the space, and the benefits and drawbacks to this architecture.
For more information on this or other topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
The document provides an overview of the Windows Azure Platform. It describes the client, integration, and application layers that make up the platform. It also outlines the data services available, including storage, databases, computing resources, and networking capabilities. Finally, it discusses high availability and deployment options for ensuring reliability and uptime of applications and services built on the Azure platform.
This document discusses Microsoft Azure's infrastructure as a service capabilities including provisioning virtual machines and environments, disk types, virtual networking, connectivity options like SQL Azure Data Sync and Service Bus, and hybrid public/private cloud capabilities. It also mentions Azure's DNS services and VPN connectivity options like IKE and encryption standards.
The document discusses Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities. It covers various Azure Virtual Machine sizes and their specifications. It also discusses high availability options, image types, resource groups vs affinity groups, networking configurations, cost considerations, and templates for deploying IaaS resources. Links are provided for documentation, quick start templates, and support communities.
Although it may sound like an oxymoron, the key to scaling a MySQL platform truly lies in consolidation of the physical storage layer. Whether you are running a dozen or a thousand MySQL instances, SolidFire provides a pathway to horizontally scale the storage layer, enabling capital and operational cost reductions, while virtually eliminating maintenance and replica deployment windows.
This document discusses Microsoft technologies for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud architectures including System Center, Azure, Office 365, and Windows Server. It highlights capabilities for identity management, virtualization, applications, mobility, and infrastructure management across diverse environments. Key benefits outlined include enabling users to work productively from any location while maintaining security and compliance.
WVD Partner Event 17 feb 2020 - Microsoft Slideskiefter
This document discusses the benefits of migrating virtual desktop infrastructure from an on-premises deployment to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) on Azure. It highlights potential cost savings from WVD's optimized infrastructure with higher utilization, pay-as-you-go pricing model, and licensing benefits. These savings can come from reduced infrastructure, licensing, and labor costs compared to traditional on-premises VDI. The document also provides an example cost comparison showing over 65% savings from migrating two user groups to WVD.
Virtual desktops are getting a lot of attention, changing the way many companies think about desktops.
And that's great, but are they right for you?
View the slide deck, presented as part of C/D/H's Technology Briefing Series, and find out exactly what a virtual desktop infrastructure is, what issues you should be aware of, the key players in the space, and the benefits and drawbacks to this architecture.
For more information on this or other topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
The document provides an overview of the Windows Azure Platform. It describes the client, integration, and application layers that make up the platform. It also outlines the data services available, including storage, databases, computing resources, and networking capabilities. Finally, it discusses high availability and deployment options for ensuring reliability and uptime of applications and services built on the Azure platform.
This document discusses Microsoft Azure's infrastructure as a service capabilities including provisioning virtual machines and environments, disk types, virtual networking, connectivity options like SQL Azure Data Sync and Service Bus, and hybrid public/private cloud capabilities. It also mentions Azure's DNS services and VPN connectivity options like IKE and encryption standards.
The document discusses Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities. It covers various Azure Virtual Machine sizes and their specifications. It also discusses high availability options, image types, resource groups vs affinity groups, networking configurations, cost considerations, and templates for deploying IaaS resources. Links are provided for documentation, quick start templates, and support communities.
Although it may sound like an oxymoron, the key to scaling a MySQL platform truly lies in consolidation of the physical storage layer. Whether you are running a dozen or a thousand MySQL instances, SolidFire provides a pathway to horizontally scale the storage layer, enabling capital and operational cost reductions, while virtually eliminating maintenance and replica deployment windows.
The document discusses the challenges of allocating IT capacity to meet fluctuating demand loads over time. It notes that pre-allocating too much capacity results in wasted resources during low usage periods, while allocating too little results in insufficient capacity during peaks. It presents diagrams showing how cloud computing allows for flexible scaling of resources to more closely match time-varying usage loads.
Windows Azure Virtual Machines And Virtual NetworksKristof Rennen
Join us for a tour of the features that make up the new
Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks
offerings. Using demonstrations throughout, we will
explain the Virtual Machine storage architecture and
show how to provision and customize virtual machines,
confi gure network connectivity between virtual machines,
and confi gure site-to-site networks that enable true
applications that span from on-premises to Windows
Azure. We’ll focus specifi cally on features that enable you
to create highly available Virtual Machine-based services
and how to connect Virtual Machines with Cloud Services.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Cloud Platform. It discusses what cloud computing is, the different service categories and cloud types. It then describes Microsoft's cloud strategy and history in cloud computing. The rest of the document details Microsoft's cloud infrastructure including their global data center network, server container deployment, and categories of cloud services like compute, storage, data and platform services. Pricing models for consumption, subscription and volume licensing are also mentioned.
I delivered this talk at CakeFest 2010 in Chicago. I pulled together the slides from a couple of different that I had done previously to do a quick overview of PHP on the Microsoft web stack and then to hit the technical side of PHP on Azure.
This document discusses Database as a Service (DBaaS) from the perspective of a DBA. It describes what DBaaS is and how it enables DBAs to deliver database functionality as an on-demand service. Key benefits of DBaaS include standardized and optimized platforms, elastic resources, and avoiding limitations from hardware budgets or time-sensitive projects. The document outlines how a DBA can embrace DBaaS by automating processes and using it to more efficiently allocate resources. It provides examples of setting up the various components required for a DBaaS implementation, including storage, infrastructure zones, roles, profiles, templates, and a self-service portal.
This document provides an overview of Azure Virtual Machines, including how to provision VMs, available VM sizes and pricing, data persistence options, high availability features, networking capabilities, and load balancing options. Key points include being able to launch Windows and Linux VMs in minutes and scale from 1 to 1000s of instances with per-minute billing. VM extensions enable customization, and VMs can be made highly available through features like availability sets and fault domains. Virtual networks allow creating protected private networks in Azure that can connect to on-premises environments.
Consolidating database servers onto Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 can reduce costs and increase responsiveness to change. It allows organizations to reduce hardware, software, storage and operational costs by standardizing, gaining efficiencies through centralized management, and ensuring business continuity. Consolidation provides flexibility to deploy and manage database resources in response to changing business needs.
Remote PCs provide benefits over traditional distributed desktop computing by centralizing desktops in the data center. This allows for improved security since user data resides behind the firewall. It also improves manageability since desktop images only need to be managed in one location rather than on individual PCs. Remote PC implementations can take the form of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) where each user is assigned a virtual machine, or blade PCs which are dedicated physical machines located in the data center. Protocols like RDP, ICA and RGS are used to transmit the desktop experience from the centralized computing resources to users' local access devices. Remote PCs can provide significant cost savings through better utilization of resources and lower management costs compared to traditional distributed desktop
Introduction To Cloud Computing Winsows Azure101Mithun T. Dhar
The Windows Azure platform is a set of high-performance cloud computing services that can be used together or independently and enable developers to leverage existing skills and familiar tools to develop cloud applications. In this session, we’ll provide a developer-focused overview of this new online service computing platform. We’ll explore the components, key features and real day-to-day benefits of Windows Azure.
Highlights include:
· What is cloud computing?
· Running web and web service applications in the cloud
· Using the Windows Azure and local developer cloud fabric
· Getting started – tools, SDKs and accounts
· Writing applications for Windows Azure
IceWarp Messaging Server is presented as a lower-cost alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server that is easier to deploy, manage, and has a lower total cost of ownership. It provides equivalent features to Exchange like email, calendaring, contacts, public folders, and web access. The document highlights IceWarp's ease of migration from Exchange, competitive pricing, and support for mobility and collaboration.
Over the first 8 years of Wix, Wix infrastructure has gone a number of transformations, starting as a monolithic application server with MySQL, evolving to a service based architecture with with diverse infrastructure.
Over this 8 years journey, we have learned a thing or two - some DOs and some DON'Ts.
This presentation goes over the evolution of Wix architecture, with the different transformations we have done to support Wix at scale. We will share some of out insights about building a web infrastructure for over 50M users
This document discusses why Java is a good option for developing on the Azure cloud platform. It notes that Azure provides SDKs and tooling to support Java development and that there are new developments like HDInsight and Azure Search that support Java. The document also shares statistics about Azure's growth and momentum in the cloud market.
Vtug spring ahead Microsoft Storage Spaces by dan stolts (it pro-guru)csharney
This document discusses Windows Server 2012 R2's Storage Spaces feature, which provides virtualized storage for physical and virtual servers. Storage Spaces allows for the creation of storage pools using direct-attached disks, and provides features such as mirroring and parity for redundancy. It also discusses how Storage Spaces can be used to build highly scalable and resilient file servers.
Building a high performance front end is a balancing act. You need to understand all the different moving parts and subsystems in the browser and how they interact with each other.
Small changes can significantly impact page and app load time, memory consumption, and processor use which has a huge impact on your user’s experience!
In this session, we will dive into the subsystems of the browser and learn to optimize performance on sites and in web apps.
We will also deep dive into the new performance analyzing tools available expose good and bad run-time patterns for your sites and web apps, and provide users with a fast and fluid experience.
The document discusses a technology leader with over 10 years of experience in Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix platforms including Windows, Active Directory, private cloud, server and desktop virtualization, high availability, BYOD and other technologies. The individual holds several industry certifications including MCSE Private Cloud and VMware Certified Professional.
SQL 2014 hybrid platform - Azure and on premise Shy Engelberg
The document provides an overview of integration features between SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure. It discusses capabilities like deploying a SQL database to an Azure virtual machine, storing database data files in Azure storage, backing up SQL databases to Azure storage, and using Azure virtual machines for disaster recovery of SQL Server databases through availability group replicas. The document contains disclaimers that it provides overviews rather than technical details and that some demos may fail due to bugs in the preview release. It also includes contact information for the presenter.
A cloud database management system (CDBMS) is a database management system hosted by a third party on remote servers and accessed over the Internet, whereas a traditional database system is installed locally. A CDBMS can be deployed in three ways: as a virtual machine image managed by the customer, as a database as a service managed by the provider, or as a fully managed hosting service. Before deploying a CDBMS, an organization should consider its performance, budget, data governance, and staffing requirements as a CDBMS may not provide the same level of performance as a local system and has different compliance implications.
Tips and tricks for optimizing windows virtual desktops final - Jeff StokesJeff Stokes
This document summarizes a webinar about optimizing Windows virtual desktop deployments. It discusses tools for creating optimized VDI images, such as the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and PS Image Factory. It also covers performing optimizations on images, assessing performance, and how changes to images can impact performance. The full loop analysis of creating, deploying, and improving images over time is presented. Presenters are from eG Innovations and Microsoft and discuss performance challenges and assuring performance for VDI.
This document provides an overview of Azure Virtual Machines including:
- Launching Windows and Linux VMs in minutes and scaling from 1 to 1000s of instances with per-minute billing.
- A gallery of prebuilt images for workloads like SQL Server, SharePoint, and SAP HANA.
- VM sizes that range from shared core/768MB RAM to 16 cores/112GB RAM.
- Features like extensions, disks, availability sets, load balancing, and cross-premises connectivity.
- Disaster recovery options like replication to secondary sites and orchestrated failover to Azure.
The document compares the total cost of ownership of physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted desktops. It finds that virtual desktops can reduce costs by up to 36% over physical desktops, while cloud desktops deliver further savings of over 20% compared to on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure. On-premises VDI has high upfront infrastructure costs that offset labor savings, while cloud desktops have no infrastructure investment and provide the lowest total cost of ownership through a pay-as-you-go model.
This document discusses the differences between scanning software and capture software. Scanning software is for basic conversion of paper to digital, while capture software focuses on efficiency and extracting data through validation, indexing, OCR, and integrating with databases and workflows. The document then outlines PSIGEN capture software's process of capture, indexing, quality assurance, and migration capabilities including recognition tools, data extraction, and supported document management system integrations.
The document discusses the challenges of allocating IT capacity to meet fluctuating demand loads over time. It notes that pre-allocating too much capacity results in wasted resources during low usage periods, while allocating too little results in insufficient capacity during peaks. It presents diagrams showing how cloud computing allows for flexible scaling of resources to more closely match time-varying usage loads.
Windows Azure Virtual Machines And Virtual NetworksKristof Rennen
Join us for a tour of the features that make up the new
Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks
offerings. Using demonstrations throughout, we will
explain the Virtual Machine storage architecture and
show how to provision and customize virtual machines,
confi gure network connectivity between virtual machines,
and confi gure site-to-site networks that enable true
applications that span from on-premises to Windows
Azure. We’ll focus specifi cally on features that enable you
to create highly available Virtual Machine-based services
and how to connect Virtual Machines with Cloud Services.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Cloud Platform. It discusses what cloud computing is, the different service categories and cloud types. It then describes Microsoft's cloud strategy and history in cloud computing. The rest of the document details Microsoft's cloud infrastructure including their global data center network, server container deployment, and categories of cloud services like compute, storage, data and platform services. Pricing models for consumption, subscription and volume licensing are also mentioned.
I delivered this talk at CakeFest 2010 in Chicago. I pulled together the slides from a couple of different that I had done previously to do a quick overview of PHP on the Microsoft web stack and then to hit the technical side of PHP on Azure.
This document discusses Database as a Service (DBaaS) from the perspective of a DBA. It describes what DBaaS is and how it enables DBAs to deliver database functionality as an on-demand service. Key benefits of DBaaS include standardized and optimized platforms, elastic resources, and avoiding limitations from hardware budgets or time-sensitive projects. The document outlines how a DBA can embrace DBaaS by automating processes and using it to more efficiently allocate resources. It provides examples of setting up the various components required for a DBaaS implementation, including storage, infrastructure zones, roles, profiles, templates, and a self-service portal.
This document provides an overview of Azure Virtual Machines, including how to provision VMs, available VM sizes and pricing, data persistence options, high availability features, networking capabilities, and load balancing options. Key points include being able to launch Windows and Linux VMs in minutes and scale from 1 to 1000s of instances with per-minute billing. VM extensions enable customization, and VMs can be made highly available through features like availability sets and fault domains. Virtual networks allow creating protected private networks in Azure that can connect to on-premises environments.
Consolidating database servers onto Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 can reduce costs and increase responsiveness to change. It allows organizations to reduce hardware, software, storage and operational costs by standardizing, gaining efficiencies through centralized management, and ensuring business continuity. Consolidation provides flexibility to deploy and manage database resources in response to changing business needs.
Remote PCs provide benefits over traditional distributed desktop computing by centralizing desktops in the data center. This allows for improved security since user data resides behind the firewall. It also improves manageability since desktop images only need to be managed in one location rather than on individual PCs. Remote PC implementations can take the form of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) where each user is assigned a virtual machine, or blade PCs which are dedicated physical machines located in the data center. Protocols like RDP, ICA and RGS are used to transmit the desktop experience from the centralized computing resources to users' local access devices. Remote PCs can provide significant cost savings through better utilization of resources and lower management costs compared to traditional distributed desktop
Introduction To Cloud Computing Winsows Azure101Mithun T. Dhar
The Windows Azure platform is a set of high-performance cloud computing services that can be used together or independently and enable developers to leverage existing skills and familiar tools to develop cloud applications. In this session, we’ll provide a developer-focused overview of this new online service computing platform. We’ll explore the components, key features and real day-to-day benefits of Windows Azure.
Highlights include:
· What is cloud computing?
· Running web and web service applications in the cloud
· Using the Windows Azure and local developer cloud fabric
· Getting started – tools, SDKs and accounts
· Writing applications for Windows Azure
IceWarp Messaging Server is presented as a lower-cost alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server that is easier to deploy, manage, and has a lower total cost of ownership. It provides equivalent features to Exchange like email, calendaring, contacts, public folders, and web access. The document highlights IceWarp's ease of migration from Exchange, competitive pricing, and support for mobility and collaboration.
Over the first 8 years of Wix, Wix infrastructure has gone a number of transformations, starting as a monolithic application server with MySQL, evolving to a service based architecture with with diverse infrastructure.
Over this 8 years journey, we have learned a thing or two - some DOs and some DON'Ts.
This presentation goes over the evolution of Wix architecture, with the different transformations we have done to support Wix at scale. We will share some of out insights about building a web infrastructure for over 50M users
This document discusses why Java is a good option for developing on the Azure cloud platform. It notes that Azure provides SDKs and tooling to support Java development and that there are new developments like HDInsight and Azure Search that support Java. The document also shares statistics about Azure's growth and momentum in the cloud market.
Vtug spring ahead Microsoft Storage Spaces by dan stolts (it pro-guru)csharney
This document discusses Windows Server 2012 R2's Storage Spaces feature, which provides virtualized storage for physical and virtual servers. Storage Spaces allows for the creation of storage pools using direct-attached disks, and provides features such as mirroring and parity for redundancy. It also discusses how Storage Spaces can be used to build highly scalable and resilient file servers.
Building a high performance front end is a balancing act. You need to understand all the different moving parts and subsystems in the browser and how they interact with each other.
Small changes can significantly impact page and app load time, memory consumption, and processor use which has a huge impact on your user’s experience!
In this session, we will dive into the subsystems of the browser and learn to optimize performance on sites and in web apps.
We will also deep dive into the new performance analyzing tools available expose good and bad run-time patterns for your sites and web apps, and provide users with a fast and fluid experience.
The document discusses a technology leader with over 10 years of experience in Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix platforms including Windows, Active Directory, private cloud, server and desktop virtualization, high availability, BYOD and other technologies. The individual holds several industry certifications including MCSE Private Cloud and VMware Certified Professional.
SQL 2014 hybrid platform - Azure and on premise Shy Engelberg
The document provides an overview of integration features between SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure. It discusses capabilities like deploying a SQL database to an Azure virtual machine, storing database data files in Azure storage, backing up SQL databases to Azure storage, and using Azure virtual machines for disaster recovery of SQL Server databases through availability group replicas. The document contains disclaimers that it provides overviews rather than technical details and that some demos may fail due to bugs in the preview release. It also includes contact information for the presenter.
A cloud database management system (CDBMS) is a database management system hosted by a third party on remote servers and accessed over the Internet, whereas a traditional database system is installed locally. A CDBMS can be deployed in three ways: as a virtual machine image managed by the customer, as a database as a service managed by the provider, or as a fully managed hosting service. Before deploying a CDBMS, an organization should consider its performance, budget, data governance, and staffing requirements as a CDBMS may not provide the same level of performance as a local system and has different compliance implications.
Tips and tricks for optimizing windows virtual desktops final - Jeff StokesJeff Stokes
This document summarizes a webinar about optimizing Windows virtual desktop deployments. It discusses tools for creating optimized VDI images, such as the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and PS Image Factory. It also covers performing optimizations on images, assessing performance, and how changes to images can impact performance. The full loop analysis of creating, deploying, and improving images over time is presented. Presenters are from eG Innovations and Microsoft and discuss performance challenges and assuring performance for VDI.
This document provides an overview of Azure Virtual Machines including:
- Launching Windows and Linux VMs in minutes and scaling from 1 to 1000s of instances with per-minute billing.
- A gallery of prebuilt images for workloads like SQL Server, SharePoint, and SAP HANA.
- VM sizes that range from shared core/768MB RAM to 16 cores/112GB RAM.
- Features like extensions, disks, availability sets, load balancing, and cross-premises connectivity.
- Disaster recovery options like replication to secondary sites and orchestrated failover to Azure.
The document compares the total cost of ownership of physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted desktops. It finds that virtual desktops can reduce costs by up to 36% over physical desktops, while cloud desktops deliver further savings of over 20% compared to on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure. On-premises VDI has high upfront infrastructure costs that offset labor savings, while cloud desktops have no infrastructure investment and provide the lowest total cost of ownership through a pay-as-you-go model.
This document discusses the differences between scanning software and capture software. Scanning software is for basic conversion of paper to digital, while capture software focuses on efficiency and extracting data through validation, indexing, OCR, and integrating with databases and workflows. The document then outlines PSIGEN capture software's process of capture, indexing, quality assurance, and migration capabilities including recognition tools, data extraction, and supported document management system integrations.
SharePoint Online v Onprem - presented by Concurrency, IncConcurrency, Inc.
SharePoint Online vs. On-Premise: What you need to know. See the benefits and limitations of each and learn whether to deploy SharePoint on-premise, use the latest cloud-based iteration, or a hybrid combination environment. Also, see K2's new Appit platform!
Moving to the cloud azure, office365, and intune - concurrencyConcurrency, Inc.
The document discusses various cloud architecture options using Microsoft technologies like Azure, Office 365, and Windows Intune. It provides cost comparisons of hosting infrastructure and workloads on-premises versus in Microsoft's public cloud over 3 years. It also describes a survey for a free cloud assessment and a contest to win a Surface Pro by submitting a 100-word business case for how empowering users with Microsoft cloud technologies could improve organizational productivity.
Go beyond the basics and learn about real life experiences, practical production use cases and best practices. Agenda includes:
• Implementing Azure as a recovery site —why companies are doing it and how
• Machine learning and service bus will change the way you look at the future of IT
• Identity for multi-factor authentication, external users, and on-premise password reset
• Storage experiences, backup and recovery and blob storage for virtual machines
• Building custom applications within the Azure cloud, lessons learned
• Automating datacenter processes with Azure Automation and SMA. Learn about companies that are building "automation as a service"
• Using HDInsight for Hadoop based big data
Don’t Be a Black Box. Do your end users go around you to get IT services? Learn how you can become a service provider instead of “black box IT”, and display how your technology investments map to the business’s priorities.
New Datacenter and Cloud Services. What portion of your datacenter investment are you leveraging? Learn about new Microsoft cloud services that align and extend existing datacenter products you likely already have installed.
Mobile Device Management, Identity, and Data Control.
Are you prepared for the move of users to mobile devices, SaaS services, and data that can live anywhere? Learn how these challenges can be addressed through comprehensive mobile experience management technologies.
Better Platforms for Business Productivity. Are your business processes engaging and efficient, or clumsy and disconnected? Learn how to provide a new way to interact as a business and manage your customer’s needs.
Learn the benefits and limitations of SharePoint Online and Onprem. Learn whether to deploy SharePoint on-premise, use the latest cloud-based iteration, or a hybrid combination environment. Also included is a description of K2's Appit platform.
Naked and Vulnerable - A Cybersecurity Starter Kit from Camp IT Dec 2016Ted Wentzel
You know you are at risk, but it’s ambiguous. You want improve security but are uncertain where best to start. Here are some examples to make a case for improving security and four specific areas to start making improvements now. To get started, please contact us at www.concurrency.com.
This document summarizes an informational session about moving applications to Microsoft Azure. It discusses the benefits of Azure, such as pay-per-use billing and scalability. It then walks through steps to migrate an application to Azure, including moving a SQL database to Azure SQL Database, deploying an ASP.NET application to Azure Cloud Services, handling session state with caching, enabling OAuth authentication with Azure Access Control Service, storing images in Azure Blob storage, and using the Azure CDN for static content.
This document summarizes what Ana Kamille Ruiz learned from constructing her media magazine product. She used Paint.net to design the cover page and contents page, and Word to create the double page spread. Paint.net allowed photo editing and saving in different formats but had limitations when editing text. Word made adding photos and text boxes easy but photos could shift out of place. Ruiz also used the Photowonder app on her phone to edit photos, applying effects quickly but with limited options. Overall, she gained experience using various technologies for media design.
The next generation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 is here! You’re invited to see the exciting new features that, now more than ever, enable you to deliver compelling solutions across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service.
This document discusses scientific visualization with Python. It outlines motivation for easy visualization of 2D and 3D data. It reviews existing visualization software and APIs, noting drawbacks. The document proposes using Python with packages like NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Mayavi2, and a custom GR framework for unified 2D and 3D visualization with high performance. Examples are given for real-time data streaming, interactive 3D visualization, and user interaction.
Azure licensing (not) so easy - Laurynas DovydaitisITCamp
Target audience – CxOs and IT personnel working with license purchasing and/or compliance management.
The session will be scenario based on imaginary medium sized company which is moving part of their infrastructure to Microsoft Azure IaaS.
I will be covering two aspects of hybrid public cloud licensing:
1. Ways company can purchase Microsoft Azure, covering direct, through partner, etc.
2. Compliance and licensing changes when moving software (like Windows Server, SQL, etc.) from on-premise to cloud.
The document discusses pricing strategies and profitability analysis for businesses. It provides examples of calculating costs of goods sold, fixed expenses, and profit margins for different scenarios. It also examines how discounts can impact sales volume but reduce margins and profits. Pricing strategies discussed include cost-plus pricing based on production costs and overhead allocations, as well as determining prices for project-based work like catering based on estimated attendance and menu costs.
The document provides a 4-step process for creating a disaster recovery plan:
1. Conduct a risk analysis to rate threats by probability and impact.
2. Establish a budget by presenting downtime costs and critical systems to business operations for a decision on what risks to mitigate.
3. Develop a detailed recovery plan with assigned roles and procedures to recover critical data and applications.
4. Frequently test the disaster recovery plan.
This document provides an agenda and overview for a presentation on collaboration options using SharePoint Online. The presentation covers topics such as document management, project management, workflows, and business intelligence. It is scheduled from 9:00-12:00 and includes breaks. The presenter, Roman Nedzelsky, is introduced as a consultant and trainer with experience in SharePoint, Project Server, InfoPath, and other Microsoft tools.
This certificate confirms that Claude Lachapelle completed the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course within the Microsoft Virtual Academy online on January 14, 2015. The certificate acknowledges his achievement in completing the course contents and wishes him continued success going forward.
This presentation highlights why customers should care about the looming deadline for Windows Server 2003 End of Support and how you can help your customer migrate their infrastructure to cloud or to a hybrid environment. It also discusses the design considerations for various upgrade scenarios from pure cloud to hybrid to on-premise. Finally, it reviews migration tools and technologies to migrate a 32-bit application to Windows Server 2012 or Azure environment.
It also shows Azure’s unique value proposition to your customers and some of the new announcement such as ASR, EMS and RemoteApp. It will describe product features that is relevant to SMB customer segment along with sizing information based on Azure calculator. Finally it will also touch upon when to think about using Azure or to your own hosted environment.
Azure App Platform provides virtual machines, websites, and mobile services on Microsoft Azure. It allows launching Windows and Linux virtual machines in minutes and scaling from 1 to 1000s of instances. Websites are the fastest way to build apps for the cloud using .NET, Python, Node.js, Java, or PHP. Mobile services enable building backend services for mobile apps across platforms.
This document discusses virtualizing server infrastructure for SharePoint environments. It begins by outlining benefits of virtualization like reducing costs, consolidating servers, and optimizing investments. It then discusses specific SharePoint components that are good candidates for virtualization like web servers, query servers, and index servers. It provides guidelines on memory limitations and virtualizing development, test, and production environments. It also discusses virtualization software options from Microsoft and third parties and Microsoft licensing implications. Finally it shares some sample virtualized SharePoint environments.
Microsoft Azure zmienia się. Jego częśc poświęcona bazie danych (Windows Azure SQL Database) zmienia się jeszcze szybciej. Podczas tej sesji chciałbym pokazac tym, którzy nie widzieli, oraz przypomniec tym, którzy już coś wiedzą - o co chodzi z WASD, jakie zmiany nastapiły i czego możemy po tej bazie oczekiwać. Dla odważnych będzie okazja podłączenia się do konta w chmurze i przetestowania ych rozwiązań samemu.
Windows Azure Platform + PHP - Jonathan WongSpiffy
This document discusses how to run PHP applications on the Windows Azure platform. It describes how to set up and deploy PHP applications to run in both web and worker roles. It also covers tools for PHP development on Azure, including the Windows Azure SDK for PHP and command line tools. Additionally, it discusses how to use Azure services like SQL Azure and storage from PHP applications.
Building Analytic Apps for SaaS: “Analytics as a Service”Amazon Web Services
TIBCO Jaspersoft® for AWS is a business intelligence suite that helps you deliver stunning interactive reports and dashboards inside your app that make it easy for your customers to get answers. Purpose-built for AWS, our reporting and analytics server quickly and easily connects to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR. It includes ad-hoc reporting, dashboards, data analysis, data visualization, and data blending. In less than 10 minutes, you can be analyzing and reporting on your data. You get a full Cloud BI server starting at less than $1/hour, with no user or data limits and no additional fees.
This webinar deck shows how embeddable analytics with TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS gives you the power to create the experience your end users demand and how to scale and manage that experience across your customer base with AWS.
The document discusses Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform, which provides cloud computing services. It describes the advantages of cloud computing over traditional IT models, including flexibility, scalability, and reduced costs. It also outlines Microsoft's cloud offerings such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Finally, it promotes Windows Azure as a consistent platform for building hybrid on-premise and cloud applications and services.
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This document discusses virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and provides demonstrations of VDI solutions using Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Citrix. It begins with an introduction to VDI and how it works. It then demonstrates Remote Desktop Services for remote desktops and application publishing. Next, it demonstrates a VDI solution using Remote Desktop Services and Citrix with the Microsoft platform. It concludes with a discussion of VDI capacity planning considerations around processors, memory, disk I/O, and network performance.
This document discusses database as a service and cloud computing. It introduces concepts like software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It also covers topics like virtualization, multi-tenancy, service level agreements, storage models, distributed storage, replication, and security in the context of database as a service. The document will be covering these topics in more depth throughout the seminar.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure, including what Azure is, its hybrid cloud solutions, scaling capabilities, hosting models, virtual machines images, costs, uptime guarantees, and how to set up an Azure account. Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform that offers a growing collection of integrated computing, storage, data, networking and application services to help users advance faster and save money. Its hybrid cloud solutions provide the best of both public and private clouds without added complexity.
Rackwise Data Center Manager is a software that enables organizations to visualize their entire data center infrastructure, manage assets, model changes, monitor power usage and environments, and analyze costs. It allows top-down visualization of the data center and drill-downs to rack and device levels. It also features asset management, power management, integration with other systems, green data center metrics, and financial analysis capabilities.
Introduction to Microsoft Azure. Covers the change to a cloud development paradigm. Motivations for the change, Pricing structures, and an exercise in IT portfolio evaluation.
Microsoft Partner Roadshow - To the CloudNigel Watson
The document discusses cloud computing and the Windows Azure platform. It provides an overview of cloud models including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). It also describes key Windows Azure platform services such as compute, storage, SQL Azure database and content delivery network. Case studies are presented that demonstrate how companies have leveraged the Windows Azure platform to improve scalability, availability and reduce costs.
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This document discusses Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform. It provides an overview of Azure's global data center infrastructure and the large number of servers it contains. It also summarizes the various programming languages, tools, and services supported by Azure, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for web, mobile, gaming, IoT, data, analytics and more. It highlights some of Azure's data services like Storage, SQL Database, and DocumentDB and analytics services like HDInsight. The document emphasizes Azure's hybrid cloud capabilities and leadership in industry analyst reports.
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A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
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Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
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Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
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How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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Dive into the realm of operating systems (OS) with Pravash Chandra Das, a seasoned Digital Forensic Analyst, as your guide. 🚀 This comprehensive presentation illuminates the core concepts, types, and evolution of OS, essential for understanding modern computing landscapes.
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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Let’s take a quick look at the evolution of electricity as a commodity.<c>First, things started out with ‘dynamos’ or hand cranked machines that could produce electrical sparks by moving a magnet around a coil of wire. Then along came electric motors. These inventions were great but they only produced a small amount of electricity and the electricity could only be delivered to an electrical device relatively close to the motor or dynamo.So – along came somebody else that invented the electric relay which made it possible to send electricity over long distances. <c>Just after Thomas Edison created his light bulb he opened one of the first central electric power stations that powered about 3,000 lights in New York City using a set of steam-powered dynamos. <c>At the same time, the first hydro-electric dam started producing electricity. <c>From there, other forms of electricity generation have been invented such as coal plants, nuclear, wind, etc. 1:00
In our modern times, almost everyone gets their power from a central supplier of electricity – an electricity “service provider”. Electricity has become a commodity that is bought and sold. <c>However, some users of electricity continue to produce their own electricity using generators, solar, etc. for various reasons. It could be a hospital that has backup generators in case of a mainline power failure. It could be a remote house in the mountains that uses solar to create electricity because it is too far away from a main power line. Some people use multiple sources of electricity for redundancy, cost, or other reasons.<c>If you consume electricity from a service provider you pay as you go – it’s an OpEx. You only pay for what you use. You consume the capacity from a shareed pool of capacity and infrastructure. The pool of capacity is both scalable and elastic.If you produce your own electricity, you have an up front CapEx, and ongoing OpEx. It may cost more or less than getting it from a service provider depending on many factors. But cost is not the only factor in deciding to produce electricity – you control it.1:20
Why am I telling you all this? Because this is what is happening to computing. Computing power is becoming a commodity. You can get it from a service provider, or you can create it yourself. Or you can do some combination.If you think about it, you don’t really care where your electricity is coming from as long as it is reliable, cost effective, and meets any other requirements you have. The same will become true of cloud computing over time as it becomes more and more of a commoditized service like electricity is now.<c>The same model of costs and benefits we saw with electricity consumption models applies to computing power consumption.How does this tie into Microsoft’s Cloud OS strategy? <c>First of all Microsoft is a service provider. You can get compute power from Microsoft PaaS, IaaS, or SaaS services. But, Microsoft is more than only a service provider. <c>It is also a Technology Provider.In the electricity analogy, you could think of Microsoft as a creator of solar panels. We use those solar panels on a massive scale to produce a massive quantity of electricity and then we sell it becoming effectively a large electricity service provider. However, we also provide our solar panels to other companies who use them to produce electricity, but on a smaller scale typically, and sell that. Finally, we also make those same solar panels available to end user customers so that they can use them to produce electricity themselves if that is what they want to do. Any given customer can consume electricity from Microsoft, a service provider, or produce it themselves.Cloud computing capacity as a commodity can be named Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Microsoft’s strategy is to provide IaaS using a software platform (the solar panels from the analogy) and then provide the same platform for producing IaaS to service providers and to end customers.This same consistent software platform that Azure runs on and that we are providing to service providers and enterprises to produce IaaS is what we call the Cloud OS.2:15
Slide Objectives:Explain the differences and relationship between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in more detail.Speaking Points:Here’s another way to look at the cloud services taxonomy and how this taxonomy maps to the components in an IT infrastructure. Packaged SoftwareWith packaged software a customer would be responsible for managing the entire stack – ranging from the network connectivity to the applications. IaaSWith Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosters – in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering. Very few actually provide an OSThe customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications. For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines. This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results ‘in production’. The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services.PaaSWith Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor. The Windows Azure best fits in this category today. In fact because we don’t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we’re often referred to as not providing IaaS.PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services. With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application. Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly.SaaSFinally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.
So, reason #1- UI Enhancements.See the desktop only when you need to see it, enhanced windowing and multi-monitor support, a great hero search experience, it’s far more intuitive. We took a lot of the feedback, not only what people loved in Windows 8, but where they said we could improve, things like bringing back a start button and boot to desktop and we brought those into Windows 8.1. Let’s take a look and do a little demo. I’m ready to log in. As we can see, my lock screen tells me what my next appointment is, tells me I’m connected to Wi-Fi and I have a good connection, that I’m currently on battery power; I’ve got eight unread emails before I even start. So, let’s log in. I flick my screen up; I see that I’m on a domain joined PC and I have a picture password; it’s a picture of my daughter that I took and it’s a series of lines or circles that only I know. So I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to trace some elements here in the picture and voila’, here I am at my start screen. One of the first things you’ll notice about Windows 8 is some new tile sizes; large tiles, tiles that give you more information. So, for example, I cannot only see what the current temperature is, I can see what it’s going to be tomorrow. I can see my stock watch list has automatically updated itself over here on the right. It’s also telling me what the top money news story is. I can also see what some additional news stories are, how the stock market is doing and what some of the top stories are today; all of this without launching an app. That’s a really critical thing to remind people that when you’re on iOS or Android or even Windows 7, in order to get some of this information, you’ve got to launch applications. You have to launch Outlook to know how many unread emails you have. You have to launch a news app or a stock app or any one of these. I can do all of this by simply just scanning that heads up display. Now, you’ll also notice there are some very small icons. I have my Excel, PowerPoint, Lync and Word. I’ve made small icons. Again, I can pick and choose how these want to work. With Windows 8.1, we’ve made it easier to move icons around and to create groups. So, for example, if I wanted to oh, let’s say, move my entertainment group, all I have to do is tap and hold. You’ll notice once I do so, I can click three icons; I’m actually going to click four. I can go up to the top and change the name of those groups. I can simply grab those and pull those over and notice in the top right-hand corner there’s the number four telling me I’m dragging four icons. I release and I can name my group new group and hit enter, tap again and there it is. If I want to move just a single icon, I click it once; I grab and I drag it over.Then here, I have my group and I can grab the whole thing over, release it here, excellent and then, once again, I’m ready to go or tap those, let loose on the gray line like so, and then name it entertainment, hit enter, tap once again. So very simple, very easy to move around. I can also change the size of multiple icons.I can, once again, tap and hold. I can click and I can delete multiple icons or even say resize these all to medium all at once, no having to do things one at a time.You’ve also probably noticed for those of you on Windows 8.1 that your store apps automatically update in the background that you don’t need to go in and manually update those each day.Well, how do we know what’s on our PC? Well, we can, of course, search, but a really nice way is just to flip the screen up and get to apps. We can organize this in multiple ways; by name alphabetically; we can do it by date installed. Hey, here’s all the apps and here’s the dates that they were installed and if I pinch and zoom, I can see yesterday, earlier this week or last month. I can do it by most used. PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, PC settings and desktop are my most used and I can take a look at moderately used, least used or never used apps if I’m looking to make some space. Maybe I’m running out of room and I want to get rid of apps that I installed or maybe read about but don’t need to be using anymore. I can very simply and easily figure that out. Or by category, so same categories we find in the store, books and reference, management, finance, photos, travel, etc., Microsoft Office. So simple, easy ways for me to be able to better find what I’m looking for. As before, if I’m looking for something specific, type it in, it’s going to find that app for me and it’s ready to go. That’s not all the great feature and functionality of Search, so let’s talk about the Search functionality. Go out here, we have what we call our hero search.Now, you can see that I can search everywhere, just in settings, files, web images or videos, but the default is everywhere. Let’s say I’m thinking about spending the weekend somewhere. Let’s say I decide you know what, I’d like to go to Seattle. I’m going to type in Seattle and hit enter and here’s what I see; social media hub Seattle. I have some documents called Seattle. I have some pictures that were tagged Seattle, some ones I took at the Seattle zoo. I can see the current temperature and by choosing view on map, I’m going to click that right here and it takes me right to Seattle.What are some of the attractions; Space Needle, Pike Place, Smith Tower, the Great Wheel. I can see a whole list of really great websites and some apps that I can download, Seattle Seahawks, Sounders or the Seattle Tacoma flight tracker. So, I can click on Windows store apps and be able to bring those up simply by doing that, I can say, you know what, show me that Seattle alerts app and there it is for me. The search is intuitive; it brings in video. It brings in pictures. It shows what’s in my SkyDrive in the cloud on my local machine and brings that all together into a great easy to see and use interface. Have we changed the way that we can have multiple apps running at a time?Absolutely. For example, I can now split screen multiple apps and give them each half the screen. I can actually run up to four Windows 8 apps side by side and push that across multiple monitors. I can also choose to resize these applications and have them run considerably smaller. One of my favorite ones to run is the weather app. As soon as I open it, it says, hi, where would you like me to go? If this was a bigger screen, I could say put it in the middle, because I’d like to run three at a time, but I’m going to say, why don’t you start up over here on the left. I have the great weather going.I can even make that smaller if I choose to or close those out as I have closed out apps in the past simply by pulling app and swiping down and picking which ones I would like to see and how much of the screen I would like for them to take, running Windows 8 and non-Windows 8 apps side by side, as I’ve always done before in the past, but being able to pick how much room they take.Alright, getting back to our desktop, one of the questions I get asked a lot is well, how do I make it a more seamless experience for my end users?Well, one of the first things you notice is that my background pattern that’s here behind my start screen is the same one that’s on my desktop. Having that same background move across the two is a great way to make a more seamless experience.You can also set the PC to start up with this view, the app view, which allows them to see all of their apps in a specific order. Let’s talk about how to make some of those changes.So, by going down here to the bottom, right mouse clicking and going to properties and going to navigation, we’ve got some pretty cool choices that can make it easier for end users, like go to the desktop instead of start when I sign in.By simply clicking that, users will start on the start screen where they will see their icons and pinned icons and be ready to work and not go to the start menu until they click on that start button on the bottom left-hand corner; then they’ll be taken to the start menu.Or I could say always show start on my main display when I press the Windows logo key or show the apps view automatically when I go to start. So instead of seeing the start screen, they see the apps view. I can even list desktop apps first before they see the Windows 8 apps, lots of different ways that I can configure this to make it easier for my users to find what they’re looking for and how they’re looking for it. These are just a few of the many features in Windows 8.1.As I take a look, one of my personal favorites is when I go here into the PC settings is to take a look at the integration of SkyDrive. We can see here the first thing it’s going to tell me is how much storage space I have. It will say, am I saving documents by default to SkyDrive? Or I can also set this up to do SkyDrive Pro through a series of group policies. This means anytime somebody saves something, rather than it being saved to the hard drive here, it’s being saved to the cloud or perhaps to work folders or it’s being saved to SkyDrive Pro, SkyDrive, etc. This is a great way where your end users don’t even realize that they’re automatically having copies of those files in the cloud, but they’re still available locally when they’re not online. I can also go through and choose sync settings. If I turn this on, this is going to take my start screen and tile layout, my colors, my themes, my passwords, all my apps, all my web browse favorites and as soon as I log into a new Windows 8 PC, it’ll immediately take it from PC one to PC two. Windows 8.1, it wants to ensure you have the same experience across all your devices, that if you add an app to one, it’s now on all of them; remove it from one, you can choose to remove it just from that one or add to all, make a change, new desktop, new color scheme; it goes across all of those devices, perfectly in sync. A long time ago, an end user to said to me, I don’t care how it works; I just want it to work and Windows 8.1 does that very, very well.