Aidan Finn
MVP, Cloud Mechanix Azure Training
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Aidan Finn, Azure & Cloud & Datacenter MVP, is the managing director of Cloud Mechanix, a company that delivers custom-written public & private Azure training in Europe. He is also the Technical Sales lead for MicroWarehouse, a Cloud Solutions Provider that provides value added distribution of Microsoft cloud services to Microsoft partners. Aidan writes on his own site (http://www.aidanfinn.com), The Petri IT Knowledgebase (http://www.petri.com), and has written several books over the years.
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Azure App Services for Noobs
If I said “I need an IIS or Tomcat app in the cloud” the first thought of a server admin is to deploy a virtual machine. Quite often, that’s the wrong choice in Azure - even though you can do that if you want to. Azure’s App Services refocus your attention from the virtual machine, networking, storage, and operating system to the application layer - the things that the business actually values. You benefit with faster deployments, easier elasticity, lower costs, new options, with security, that will have your developers sending you thank you cards. Join this session if you want to learn why App Services are so cool, and what they can do for your customer or employer.
Learn how Azure App Services can often make virtual machines irrelevant in the Azure cloud, refocusing attention on the app.
Digitally Transform (And Keep) Your On-Prem File Servers
Even with new cloud options, the on-premises file server continues to play an important role in small business, large business, and the branch office. However, this comes at a cost. Storage is always under pressure and never cheap, backups and disaster recovery require infrastructure, and offices in mid-large businesses need to collaborate. In this session, you will learn how Azure File Sync is an easy technology to introduce into to an existing infrastructure and will completely change how you view your file servers. Join this session to learn what Azure File Sync is, how to architect it, and how to deploy it.
Use the cloud to change how you deploy file servers, back them up, enable disaster recovery, and inter-office synchronization.
Getting More Performance from Azure Virtual Machines
You’ve deployed your shiny new application in the cloud, and all that pride crashes down when developers and users start to complain that it’s slow. How do you fix it? In this session, you’ll learn to understand what Azure virtual machines can offer, how to pick the right ones for the right job, and how to design for the best possible performance, including networking, storage, processor, and GPU.
Benefits of Attending this Session:
- Understand virtual machine design
- Optimize storage performance
- Get more from Azure networking
Understand the mechanics of Azure VMs so you can get better services performance.
Secure Azure Network Architecture
This session will walk you through the components of Azure network security, and how to architect a secure network for Azure virtual machines or platform services, including VNets, network security groups, routing tables, VNet peering, web application gateway, DDoS protection, Azure Firewall, and firewall appliances.
See how Azure Firewall, network appliances, NSGs, and so on can be deployed to secure your network and assets in Azure.
What's Changed with Azure Virtual Machines
The old days of attending a session once every 3 years to find out what’s new are over. Unless you’re paid to read & learn, it’s impossible to keep up with the constant change of the cloud. In this session, Azure MVP Aidan Finn (who is paid to learn Azure), will update attendees changes to Azure virtual machines from the previous 12 months.
Keeping up with changes in the cloud is hard to do with. Learn what’s changed in the last 12 months with Azure virtual machines.
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