Top Picks from TechEd 2013: VP Brad Anderson and Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover

In this week’s Top Picks from TechEd 2013, we are going to circle back to the opening keynote Microsoft VP Brad Anderson delivered, and a foundation session delivered by Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover.

Despite a sea of changes in cloud computing, device proliferation, and the explosion of data, IT pros and developers still live for one simple thing: to deliver amazing experiences for their customers and end-users. In this keynote, Brad Anderson will unveil a broad set of new capabilities across the full suite of Microsoft Cloud OS products and technologies designed with that simple end goal in mind. Together with enterprise-optimized enhancements to the Windows 8 client, the advances that Brad will showcase in this keynote significantly advance Microsoft’s long-term effort to give you the most advanced and comprehensive set of services, products, and technologies in the industry.

 

 

Cloud computing models are changing the technology landscape and providing more opportunity than ever for IT to deliver impact to the business. This Foundational Session presented by Jeffrey Snover will dive into the new Microsoft datacenter technologies and demonstrate how you can be the best provider of technology for your organization. Learn how Windows Server, System Center, Windows Azure, and other new technologies work together to help you provision and manage cloud and datacenter infrastructure, provide business continuity, deliver services, and manage applications.

 

 

Check back here next Tuesday.  We’ll have another episode of Top Picks from TechEd 2013. And for those of you interested in downloading some of the products and trying them, here are some resources to help you:

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview download
  • System Center 2012 R2 Preview download
  • SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) download
  • Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview download

Written by Keith Combs, Microsoft Server and Tools