Setting up a SQL Server Test/Dev Environment in Windows Azure
Overview
Victor will conduct a brief overview of Azure while comparing and contrasting some of the options (IaaS and PaaS)for running SQL Server in the Azure cloud. He will also review important infrastructure components required to run SQL in the cloud and then discuss how you can leverage azure to provision resources. The evening will include a demonstration of the Azure management portal to provision and manage Azure resources and a discussion and review of SQL Server Hybrid scenarios (combination of on-premise SQL with SQL in Azure).
Speaker Bio
Victor Szalma is a Windows Azure Technical Specialist with Microsoft. He has spent 29 years in Information Technology, the last 16 years with Microsoft. At Microsoft Victor has had a variety of roles in both sales and delivery capacities. As an Azure Technical Specialist he currently spends his time helping customers understand cloud computing and how they can leverage Azure to meet their business and technical needs.
Victor’s previous Microsoft experience includes acting as a Technical Strategist for large enterprises where he spent time understanding an enterprise’s industry, business and technical objectives and helping them leverage Microsoft’s software, devices and services to meet those goals. He spent the previous 10 years as a consultant at Microsoft helping customers build strategies and implement Microsoft technologies.
Prior to Microsoft Victor spent 13 years as a technical consulting helping customers in a variety of industries including automotive, health care and insurance. Most of that time was spent architecting and developing solutions using a variety of technologies.
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