Nashville, TN Q/A TechNet Event: Transforming IT from Virtualization to the Cloud (4-1-2011)
Good afternoon and thank you to everyone who attended the event in Nashville! I hope everyone had a good time. As promised here are some resources and the Q/A from the event.
I will also be placing the slides here: TechNet Slides: Transforming IT from Virtualization to the Cloud and here: TechNet Event Slides
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Q:What announcements where made at MMS regarding the cloud?
A: The keynotes do a good job of overview the information: Watch Brad Anderson in the MMS 2011 Day 1 Keynote and the Day 2 Keynote. There were 35 sessions at MMS regarding Cloud Management, however they are not online yet, if/when they post I will let you know.
Q: is there an audit trail for administration tasks in Azure?
A: I was not able to dig up a tool, other than the system health reporting, that will show you the basics of Azure. Again as I mentioned your Azure administrative accounts should be tightly controlled and limited to only a few people, not only for security but also cost..
Q: What is the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)/Privacy for your data and applications in Azure?
A: Here is the privacy statement: Microsoft Windows® Azure™ Platform Privacy Statement
Here is also a great whitepaper on the internal security: Technical Overview of the Security Features in Windows Azure Platform
Q: What are the hardware specifications for the Azure servers for Hyper-V?
A: While I could not find the exact specs, I did find this interesting article from 2008, where Ray Ozzie discusses the data centers: Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload
This link shows a video showing the process: Microsoft Generation 4 Data Centers
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