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Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer

Principal Program Manager & Chief Evangelist Azure Hybrid @Microsoft

Lausen, Switzerland

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Thomas works as a Principal Program Manager & Chief Evangelist Azure Hybrid at Microsoft (Cloud + AI). He engages with the community and customers around the world to share his knowledge and collect feedback to improve the Azure hybrid cloud and edge platform. Prior to joining the Azure engineering team (Cloud + AI), Thomas was a Lead Architect and Microsoft MVP, to help architect, implement and promote Microsoft cloud technology.
If you want to know more about Thomas, check out his blog: www.thomasmaurer.ch and Twitter: www.twitter.com/thomasmaurer

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Cloud
  • Cloud Computing on the Azure Platform
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Azure
  • Azure IaaS
  • Azure Stack
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Windows Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Virtualization
  • Azure BCDR
  • Docker
  • Containers
  • Hybrid
  • Hybrid Cloud

6 Tips and Tricks for Azure IaaS Design & Operations

Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows you to deploy and run Windows and Linux virtual machines in Azure. In this session, Thomas Maurer will show you tips and tricks which will make your Azure IaaS experience much better and become super efficient. This includes advanced automation, operation, and management of Azure VMs as well as diagnostics and security!
Join this session if you want to become a master in Azure IaaS management.

Mastering Azure using Cloud Shell, PowerShell and Bash!

Azure can be managed in many different ways. Learn your command line options like Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Cloud Shell to be more efficient in managing your Azure infrastructure. Become a hero on the shell to manage the cloud!

Windows Server 2019 - Next level of Hybrid Cloud

Join this session for the best of Windows Server 2019, about the new innovation and improvements of Windows Server and Windows Admin Center. Learn how Microsoft enhances the SDDC feature like Hyper-V, Storage, and Networking and get the most out of the new Azure Hybrid Cloud Integration and Container features. You’ll get an overview of the new, exciting improvements that are in Windows Server and how they’ll improve your day-to-day job.

Windows Server 2019 - The Next Generation of Software-Defined Datacenter

Join this session for the best of Windows Server 2019, about the new innovation and improvements of Windows Server and Windows Admin Center. Learn how Microsoft enhances the SDDC feature like Hyper-V, Storage and Networking and get the most out of the new Azure Hybrid Cloud Integration and Container features. You’ll get an overview of the new, exciting improvements that are in Windows Server and how they’ll improve your day-to-day job.

In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft Cloud Advocate) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations in Windows Server 2019 and the Semi-Annual Channel including:
○ Windows Server Containers
○ Azure Integration
○ Hyper-V features
○ Storage
○ Networking
○ Security
○ Windows Admin Center
And more!

Extend the Intelligent Cloud to the Edge with Azure Stack

Azure Stack allows you to extend Azure to your datacenter and run Azure Services under your terms. Find out more about Azure Stack and how it can help you to in your Hybrid Cloud strategy. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience.
In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experiences during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

Extend the Intelligent Cloud to the Edge with Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI

Azure Stack allows you to extend Azure to your datacenter and run Azure Services under your terms. With Azure Stack HCI, the latest member in the Azure Stack family, we also offer a great hyper-converged infrastructure solution, with optional Azure connected services. Find out more about Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI, how these solutions can help you to in your Hybrid Cloud strategy. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience.

Azure Stack - Everything you need to know!

Microsoft released Azure Stack as an Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage, and operate an Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience.
In this presentation, Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experience during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

Supercharging Hyper-V with quantum computing

Okay, I am not really talking about quantum computing, but hey there are some cool features in Hyper-V you should definitely know about! In this session, Thomas Maurer will talk about "hidden" Hyper-V features everyone should know about. This covers different features for Hyper-V on Windows Server as well as on Windows 10, like Containers, Windows Sandbox, WSL 2, VM Gallery and much more. Be prepared for a lot of demos!

Windows Container 101 - Windows Server, Docker, AKS and Azure Container Instances

Want to get started with Windows Containers or want to get an overview of the different container technologies? This session gives you an overview about Windows and Hyper-V Containers as you can run them in your environment using Docker on Windows 10, Windows Server or even the different options in Azure, using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure Container Instances (ACI).

A look into the Hybrid Cloud Lifestyle of an Azure Stack Operator

Microsoft released Azure Stack as an Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage, and operate Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience.
In this presentation, Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experiences during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

Securing your Azure environment

With Cloud resources now connected with our datacenter, secure administrative access to critical workloads needs to be configured appropriately. It's also important from an organizational and compliance perspective to ensure that workloads have a security configuration aligned with industry best practice. In this module, you'll learn how to improve the security of privileged accounts used to manage Azure resources, manage software updates for both on-premises and cloud-hosted virtual machines, and how to get the most out of Azure Security Center for assessing and remediating security configuration issues in a hybrid environment.

Planning and implementing Azure hybrid network connectivity

Once your organization has decided to implement a hybrid model, you need to start figuring out how to ensure that communication between your on-premises environment and your hybrid workloads is both secure and reliable. You also need to ensure that those workloads are protected from internal and external network threats. In this module, you'll learn how to assess your organization's on-prem network infrastructure, how to plan, and then implement an appropriate networking design for Azure. You'll learn how to implement appropriate Azure virtual network technologies, including securing connectivity between on-premises and Azure using VPNs and ExpressRoute as well as how to strategically deploy firewalls, network security groups, and marketplace appliances to protect those resources and workloads.

How to become Azure Certified!

With Cloud Computing becoming more and more important, proofing your skills and becoming certified will not only boost your career but will also make you more successful in your job! In this session, you will learn why you should become Microsoft Azure Certified, what different Azure exam certification paths there are available, how you prepare, take, and pass an exam. This session will focus on the overall available Microsoft Azure Certifications.

Bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure with Azure Arc

For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure. In this session, Thomas Maurer will demonstrate the new Azure Arc capabilities for your Hybrid environment. It will include how you can manage and govern your Windows Server and Linux servers running on-premises and in a multi-cloud environment using Azure Management technologies like Azure Policies using Azure Arc.

Modern Azure Cloud Operations for IT Ops

While services, virtual machines and applications are shifting to the cloud, IT Operations need to keep track of managing resources in Azure and implementing governance. In this session, Thomas Maurer gives you a short view of Azure Operations, advanced IaaS Management, and Governance + Ops.

Azure Hybrid - Learn about Hybrid Cloud Management with Azure

In this session, Cloud Advocate Thomas Maurer will give you an overview of the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud offering. Learn how you can use the Azure Hybrid services and products like Azure Arc, Azure Update Management, the new Azure Stack portfolio, and many more to introduce hybrid cloud management to your environment.

Thomas Maurer

Principal Program Manager & Chief Evangelist Azure Hybrid @Microsoft

Lausen, Switzerland

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