Windows Azure Training

U2U starts with engagement courses about Azure

Windows Azure has been announced by Microsoft at PDC 2008 and for the developers community it is operational in an alpha version. Time for U2U to start with engagement workshops and early adopter courses, workshops and events. In the U2U offer you find today:


The Windows Azure Services Platform

Windows Azure is the new cloud operating system by Microsoft. Azure serves as the service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides us with on-demand compute and storage services allowing us to host, scale, and manage our Web applications on the internet through Microsoft data centers.

Azure Services Platform

In the current alpha version of Windows Azure we find:

Computation Services

  • We can run our ASP.NET web and .NET applications on Azure
  • Azure offers service hosting including Internet Information Services 7.0 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  • Security is supported by flexible Code Access Security policies
  • A small runtime API supports logging and local scratch storage
  • Azure has a web portal interface helping us to deploy, scale, and upgrade our services

Simple data storage services

  • As data storage Azure offers us blobs, tables and queues
  • Authenticated access and triple replication keeps our data safe
  • With REST interfaces we get easy access to data

Visual Studio Development Tools

  • To build Azure applications and services, we developers can use our existing Visual Studio 2008 expertise
  • In addition, Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML
  • Azure comes with command-line SDK tools and samples
  • Local debugging is available from within Visual Studio

U2U training on Azure

U2U trainers strongly believe in the success of this new Microsoft platform and have created some exciting workshops for early adopters. At U2U we offer an engagement program and a 2-day workshop:

Engage your organization in Windows Azure - Create a PoC

With combined forces U2U and Class-A organize a special engagement program for Microsoft development teams who want to implement their first Azure-platform proof-of-concept applications. This Azure engagement program is composed of a 2 day course at the U2U or Class-A training centers and an individual assistance and coaching program. The main objectives are to realize a Proof of Concept (PoC) application running on Windows Azure. Register for this engagement program and obtain:

  • Awareness meeting for business and management
  • 2 days of technical training for 2 developers
  • 10 hours of coaching
  • Exposure in the Microsoft Community

Workshop "Developing cloud based applications for Windows Azure"

Learn what Windows Azure has to offer to your organization. Learn about new hosting technologies in the cloud, how to develop and scale your enterprise applications for Azure. The U2U Azure courses target early adopters who want to acquire a good understanding of the Azure platform: You will not only discover the technologies for creating the future type of applications running on Azure, but you will also learn how to enable your existing applications for the Azure services available today and how to migrate existing applications to the cloud. So if you want to get introduced in the cloud services offered by Microsoft and want to discover how to use them in your cloud and on-premises applications, the following U2U courses are waiting for you to attend:


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U2U Email Snippets Outlook add-in enabled for the Windows Azure CTP - Live Mesh

With the U2U Email Snippets Outlook add-in you can save your email message, or a part of the message, as a snippet in a private or public snippet store.
When composing a new email message you can reuse the email snippets you stored by inserting it in your new email message. U2U has ported this add-in to work with the "Azure CTP - Live Mesh" provider. Read more and download of the U2U Email Snippets Outlook add-in...


U2U course books and articles on Azure

U2U trainers want to share their experience on applying Azure in business applications. A first article discusses how to Share your applications data with Live Mesh and Live Framework.


U2U lectures and sessions on Azure

U2U trainers are preparing lectures and sessions on Azure. Slide decks of coming lectures will be made available on the U2U website in the coming weeks. If you are interested in organizing an in-company lecture on Azure, do not hesitate to contact Wim Uyttersprot (wim@u2u.be) for more information and our price offer.

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