Azure: Breakouts
Microsoft Ignite | Nov 2-4, 2021 | Digital event
Find out more about Azure cloud platform's 200+ products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life to solve today's challenges and create the future.
| Accelerate and De-Risk Your Journey to SaaS The path to shifting to a software “as a service” (SaaS) delivery model can be challenging from both business and technical perspectives. Hear from Azure engineers who will share SaaS best practices, key considerations, common challenges, and other lessons based on hundreds of SaaS migration and modernization projects. Walk away with tangible guidance for your SaaS journey, whether you're starting by lifting-and-shifting an existing solution from on-premises to Azure, considering a multitenant architecture, or looking to modernize an existing SaaS web application. Sofia Pacifico, Casey Watson |
| Accelerate cloud migration and modernization Cloud adoption can help you drive faster innovation, enhance security, optimize costs, and achieve sustainable outcomes. Watch this interview, to learn:• What's the customer mindset with respect to cloud adoption as they look to future proof their org beyond pandemic• Why customers migrate and modernize with Azure• How to successfully move your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure with hybrid flexibility• Latest investments in Azure capabilities, tools and programs jeremy winter, Allison Weins |
| Accelerate time to insight with Azure Synapse Harnessing the constant stream of data in Azure Synapse and applying AI to it, through direct integration with Azure Cosmos DB and Dataverse, enables better decisions and transformative processes. In this session we will share the evolution of query processing and data management with Azure Synapse to meet the needs of high scale, volume, velocity, and variety of data workloads with integrated data governance. Kim Manis |
| Accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with Azure Customers are accelerating cloud adoption plans as they recover and reimagine their businesses. Cloud migration and modernization can help you drive faster innovation, enhance security, optimize costs, and achieve sustainable outcomes. Attend this session for expert guidance on how to successfully move your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure with hybrid flexibility. Learn about our latest investments in Azure capabilities, tools, Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP), and FastTrack for Azure so you can move with confidence. Ashish Babbar, Tanuj Bansal |
| An introduction to the Azure OpenAI Service By now you've heard the announcement of the Azure OpenAI Service, and are intrigued about it. This session will give you a walkthrough of the service and its capabilities, alongside demonstrating it in action. Join this session to know how the Azure OpenAI Service enables complex language scenarios and use cases with the promise of enterprise readiness. Sarah Bird, DOMINIC DIVAKARUNI |
| Azure for Operators with Metaswitch Microsoft Teams is dominating the business landscape. As businesses connect Teams to the outside world for voice calling, numerous solutions have been brought to market including Operator Connect, Direct Routing, Teams Phone, and various connector applications. Join Azure for Operators as they discuss ways Telco Operators and technology partners are taking services to market with Azure to connect Teams users to the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). Mike Wilkinson |
| Bring Azure Kubernetes Services to a Hybrid Environment The Blueprint Files In this session Mike Kostersitz will provide you with an in-depth view of deploying Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) anywhere in your hybrid environment using Azure Stack HCI. Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI is an on-premises implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which automates running containerized applications at scale and allows customer to bring Azure services to their on-premises environment using Azure Arc. Abhilasha Agarwala, Subodh Bhargava, Sarah Cooley, Mike Kostersitz |
| Build secure apps with collaborative DevSecOps practices As the threat landscape shifts with new types of cybersecurity attacks targeting development environments and the software supply chain, shifting security left becomes a necessity. To securely deliver innovation, organizations must harden their dev environments, integrate security early in the development cycle, and foster collaboration between the DevOps and SecOps teams. Learn how Microsoft's unified solution combines GitHub and Azure to empower your development teams to securely deliver innovative apps at DevOps speed. Jessica Deen, Lavanya Kasarabada |
| Citrix Provisioning Services PVS on Azure As employees embrace new hybrid-work environments, the demand for flexible, cloud-hosted IT infrastructure to support their needs is growing. Citrix and Microsoft continue to drive innovation in the hybrid-cloud space and are bringing Citrix PVS - the flagship provisioning technology — to Azure. As a result, Azure-hosted VMs can be rapidly provisioned and streamed over the network backbone on demand. Join this session to experience Citrix PVS on Azure in action and learn about its benefits. Igal Figlin, Simon Graham, Yuhua Lu |
| Customer Tech Talks: PointsBet PointsBet joins Customer Tech Talks to discuss their born in the cloud solution that includes infrastructure and services that manage betting across various sporting events around the world. Pranay Agrawal, Andrei Goutnik, Ben Walters |
| Deep Dive on new container hosting options on Azure App Service and App Service Environment v3 Azure App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) offers a fully isolated PaaS offering for your web apps. In this session, you will learn about how to migrate ASP.NET workloads using Windows Containers to host them in a secure and isolated ASEv3 environment. You will also learn about security enhancements for Azure Container Registry such as secure container pull capabilities, private endpoint secured registries with managed identities, and container pulls from custom container registries. Stefan Schackow |
| Enabling Customer Success at Scale Discover proven and prescriptive guidance, tools and resources that provide you with a clear and shortest path forward for your cloud journey and to successfully adopt Azure. Learn how to reduce complexity, set your environment and your organization to successfully adopt Azure project after project, and always optimize what you have deployed on Azure to deliver on business expectations. Madhan Arumugam Ramakrishnan, Allison Weins |
| Enterprise Integration: Success Stories & Best Practices Join us to learn about success stories of customers building large scale, mission critical integrations on the industry leading enterprise integration platform-as-a-service, featuring Azure Logic Apps, API Management, and more. As well as to learn about best practices that will help you to get up to speed fast, and start integrating and innovating at the speed of business. Derek Li |
| Innovate with cloud-native apps and open source on Azure Get an overview on Microsoft's full spectrum of cloud native applications and open source on Azure. Learn about our latest innovation on containers and serverless that empowers every developer to take advantage of flexible choices to create microservices applications on Azure. Phillip Gibson, Jeff Hollan |
| Kathleen Mitford on multi-cloud, edge, and the opportunity to accelerate your business with innovation Join Allison and Kathleen to learn how Azure empowers customers in every industry to innovate across their organizations Kathleen Mitford, Allison Weins |
| Learn everything about the new Azure Stack HCI feature update Gain a deep understanding of the new features now included in Azure Stack HCI such as GPU integration, Arc enablement for every Azure Stack HCI node and thin provisioning to name a few of the latest features. Experience the value of these features with demos and learn about the benefits from these new features. After seeing this session, you will be able to assess the increased value to your organization with Azure Stack HCI. Cosmos Darwin |
| Mark Russinovich on Azure Innovation! Join Seth and Mark in a conversation discussing Azure innovation. Mark Russinovich, Seth Juarez |
| Modernize enterprise Java applications and messaging with Java EE/Jakarta EE on Azure and Azure Service Bus Are you looking to modernize your mission-critical enterprise Java applications and message brokers? In this session, you'll learn how Azure services such as App Service, AKS, and ARO can help you modernize enterprise Java EE/Jakarta EE applications to achieve greater scale and agility while optimizing costs. You'll also learn how to leverage Azure Service Bus, a fully managed enterprise messaging service, to modernize message brokers like IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, and JBoss A-MQ. Edward Burns |
| New ways to add intelligence to your business with AI Builder Accelerate your digital transformation by using AI Builder's no code capabilities to bring intelligence to your apps and workflows. See the newest features added to automate document processing. And learn how you can now bring your own custom models, like those trained in Azure ML or Lobe, into Power Platform - enabling citizen developers to build more intelligent solutions that can transform your business. Bill Barnes, Gwenael Bego, Dushyanth Chandramouli, Flaviu Vreme |
| New ways to manage Azure VMs using Virtual Machine Scale Sets Attend this session to see in action the latest capabilities that Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets provides. Discover how Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can help you reduce cloud infrastructure costs, deploy massively scalable and highly available applications. Learn how you can improve your security posture by controlling guest OS image upgrades and automatic extension upgrades. Varun Shandilya |
| Onboarding to Azure IoT Learn how to onboard to Azure IoT through our recommended approach to solution building. We'll share how to get started with an aPaaS offering that helps you crystalize your IoT solution needs, set a strategic direction with confidence, and deliver value to your organization. You will learn how Azure IoT is simplifying IoT by providing an out-of-the-box and ready-to-use UX and API surface that works with customization options. Cory Newton-Smith, Ricardo Pablos |
| PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffrey Snover The Blueprint Files PowerShell is more than just a management and configuration framework for IT Pro's, it's the glue that DevOps, Developers and IT Pro's use to manage, configure, and automate servers and services. Are you taking full advantage of what PowerShell has to offer? Let world-renowned inventor of PowerShell, Jeffrey Snover, and his side-kick Jason Helmick, show off their favorite solutions building from PowerShell's successful 15-year past and leveraging the new solutions for the future. Regardless if you focus on the cloud, on-premises, or a combination of both, PowerShell is the cross-platform management tool to do it all. Jason Helmick, Jeffrey Snover |
| Scaling Unreal Engine in Azure with Pixel Streaming and Integrating Azure Digital Twins Deep dive into how Unreal Engine games or apps can be easily deployed and auto-scaled in Azure using Pixel Streaming, leveraging a new solution built by Azure Engineering that can save hundreds of hours of developer's time to build the infrastructure and management to deploy at massive scale. Additionally, learn how Unreal Engine can integrate with Azure Digital Twins to deliver immersive and live visualizations of your IoT and digital twin environments. Steve Busby, Erik Jansen, Maurizio Sciglio, Aaron Sternberg, David Weir-McCall |
| Secure, develop, and innovate in hybrid and multicloud with Microsoft Azure You have diverse application and security needs to innovate and deploy anywhere. Azure, hybrid by design, gives you the flexibility to secure and govern your applications with confidence - whether you are on-premises, multicloud or at the edge. Learn about the latest hybrid capabilities in Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI that can empower you to achieve more, wherever you are. Roanne Sones |
| Simplify IT server management through Azure Automanage Learn how to simplify managing Azure virtual machines and Arc-enabled servers through Automanage. Automanage onboards, configures and monitors your machines to Azure best practice services, like Azure Monitoring and Azure Backup. Also, learn about Automanage for Windows Server, which offers unique innovations like SMB over QUIC and extended network for Azure, only for new Windows Server virtual machines on Azure and Azure Stack HCI, version 21H2. Greg Cusanza, Meagan McCrory, Ned Pyle |
| The cutting edge of AI: Discover the possibilities with Azure Percept The Blueprint Files Join Amira Youssef to get inspired to begin building with edge AI solutions to start the digital transformation and modernization within your organization. Azure Percept is simplifying AI at the edge by giving you rapid prototyping, fully integrated experiences and a supporting ecosystem with hardware and software.In this session, Amira will show you detailed demos and discussions of Azure Percept Studio, the hardware development kit, and how to create, deploy & train an AI model with original artwork by Nitya Narasimhan. Nitya Narasimhan, Amira Youssef |
| Transform your business with new innovations from edge to cloud across SQL Server and Azure SQL Join us to hear how the latest innovations in SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance can transform your business with data, across on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge. You will learn about the new capabilities and features of SQL and see them in action. Asad Khan, Anna Hoffman |
| Unlock new scenarios with breakthrough innovation with Azure OpenAI Service Learn how Microsoft is delivering some of the most advanced AI, such as OpenAI GPT-3 models, into Azure AI to apply to your business. Hear from Eric Boyd and Mira Murati on the direction of AI and how it will continue to accelerate business innovation. Eric Boyd, Mira Murati |
| Updates on Migrating to Azure App Service Azure App Service enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. During this session, we will provide a demo of the new Azure Migrate discovery and assessment feature, Powershell migration experience, containerization tool for ASP.Net web apps, and Java Tomcat migration. Using these new and updated Azure migration tools, you can migrate .NET sites for a single server or entire datacenter. Rahul Gupta, Kristina Halfdane, Gaurav Seth |
| What’s new and what’s next for running Azure Kubernetes Service on-premises Join the session to learn about the latest innovation in Azure Kubernetes Service for on-premises and hybrid cloud. Our experts will share customer stories, best practices, exciting features, and demos for Day 2 operations for your production workloads. Jessica Guan |
| What’s new and what’s next in Azure compute The Azure portfolio continues to expand to help you increase the cost efficiency, scalability, and resiliency of your workloads. Watch this session to learn about the latest innovation available to Azure customers. For example, you will hear about the latest Azure VMs and their price/performance improvements, how to quickly find the right VM for your workloads, the new Virtual Machine Scale Sets capabilities and how you can access guaranteed compute capacity ahead of VM deployments. Paul Nash |
| What's new in Windows Admin Center Learn about all that is new in Windows Admin Center, your favorite server management tool for on-premises and in the cloud. This year, we have released the general availability of Windows Admin Center v2110, bringing great new capabilities. This session features demos of our key new features and improvements, along with a sneak peak of our future-thinking ideas to make server management easier. Prasidh Arora |
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