SQL Server in the Cloud - Evening Event
Come and join us for this great evening focusing on Microsofts solution to storing data in the cloud. We will be focusing on SQL Data Services
These meetings are great opportunities to meet other SQL Server professionals, get your burning issues solved.
This is a provisional agenda, it will be updated as we get more details.
Agenda
18:00 - 18:30 Meet & Greet
18:30 - 18:40 Intro, what’s in the news, Q&A,
18:40 - 18:50 Nuggets
Let us know if you have a 5 minute nugget you want to share.
18:50 - 19:40 The Cloud DBA - Simon Munro
In this session Simon illustrates the influences of the cloud on how and where data is accessed and cautions that database professionals need a better understanding in order to re-assert ownership of a crucial organizational asset. The session focuses on what is underway in the Microsoft stack and is sprinkled with demonstrations and ideas for creating database architectures that embrace traditional as well as cloud data storage.
19:40 - 20:00 Networking with refreshments (sponsored by Microsoft)
20:00 - 21:00 What's new in SQL Data Services - Jamie Thomson
Come hear how SQL Data Services is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing database applications and extend them to the cloud. Learn how SQL Data Services provides highly available and scalable relational database storage and capabilities while allowing you to leverage existing SQL Server knowledge, protocols, client libraries and tools.
Location:
Microsoft London Cardinal Place 100 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL
Directions
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Bios:
Simon Munro
Simon Munro is a Senior Practice Consultant with EMC Consulting. Currently doing solution architecture on the Microsoft stack, Simon has spent more than fifteen years straddling the line between application and database development. Over the years he has worked on a wide range of database solutions from transactional to data warehouse and various volumes and loads.
http://blogs.conchango.com/simonmunro @simonmunro
Jamie Thomson
SQL Server BI Consultant from EMC Consultant
http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson