Joey Snow, IT Pro Technical Evangelist, is back to take a behind the scenes look at IT software as a service. Join in to get under the hood! Dmitri Sotnikov sketches out the architecture, including Windows Azure and Windows Live ID.
This is a rare, early opportunity to learn from someone who has deployed three beta applications on Windows Azure which are helpful to IT Pros. As Director, Cloud Solutions for Quest Software, Dmitri has even more Windows Azure applications in development.
[0:01] Cloud solutions for Active Directory recovery, event log management, and SharePoint reporting
[2:19] IT staff’s concerns: Security, Security, Security
[5:05] IT staff’s efforts and addressing compliance
[9:00] Application architecture on the white board
[14:35] Demo of working components, including federation
Here’s more on cloud computing from Joey: An Overview of Cloud Computing, and The IT Professionals’ Role and Windows Azure.