

Microsoft Azure Tutorial - Cloud Computing with Windows Azure
Sponsored by Microsoft®Abstract Every few years, a revolution changes the way we use computers. Think of huge mainframes in the 1960s, minicomputers in the 1970s, personal computers in the 1980s and smartphones over the last decade. Cloud computing is poised to be the next big paradigm shift in the computing landscape by bringing together advances in technologies like Virtualization, massive scale computing, communication formats and flexible data protocols. With advances by Microsoft, Amazon and other leaders in computing, this field is slated as the fastest growing segment of the technology industry in terms of investment, development and recruitment. Krishna Kumar is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft where he partners with faculty and researchers around their teaching and research needs. His professional interests lie in the field of parallel and distributed enterprise computing with special emphasis on the cloud, especially around Windows Azure - Microsoft's cloud platform. He leads the national academic effort around Azure by working with early adopters around cloud research and curriculum incorporation. He is also in the process of putting the finishing touches on a developer focused book on Azure for Addison-Wesley to be published in Summer 2010. He tweets at @KrishnaOnAzure and administers the http://AzurePilot.com faculty portal.
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