Finally, today time was there. The real start of the PDC 2008! A Microsoft employee told me that the PDC seems to be sold out and that there is a total of 6000 people attending the PDC. So all this people flowed into Hall A to listen to the same story/vision/strategy that Microsoft wants to share with us.
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Hall A – Centre Screen
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A subset of attendees
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So while we were waiting for the start of the key note, lots of people used the live twittering that's visible on the big screens. |
Ray Ozzie kicked off, and talked about cloud computing, its requirements and challenges and than revealed Microsoft’s answer to the ‘next generation of computing’ :
Windows Azure
Its the answer to Microsoft’s DynamicIT strategy. The story was a bit two sided:
- Its about creating and hosting applications using the tools and technologies developers are familiar with, and hosting it on a dedicated, optimized ‘Cloud’ environment.
- The Azure platform delivers other functionalities (ex. SQL Server, Sharepoint and Exchange) from the cloud which can be used by your company and applications.
Key components of the Azure Services Platform include the following:
• Windows Azure for service hosting and management, low-level scalable storage, computation and networking
• Microsoft SQL Services for a wide range of database services and reporting
• Microsoft .NET Services which are service-based implementations of familiar .NET Framework concepts such as workflow and access control
• Live Services for a consistent way for users to store, share and synchronize documents, photos, files and information across their PCs, phones, PC applications and Web sites
• Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services for business content, collaboration and rapid solution development in the cloud
Quote from MS’s press release:
”Ozzie described how this platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on servers operating within Microsoft’s global datacenter network. This provides developers with the ability to deploy applications in the cloud or on-premises and enables experiences across a broad range of business and consumer scenarios.”
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