There are a few interesting things in here, like AppFabric, but all in all I didn't see this as a very compelling keynote. In addition, I think Bob is excellent when talking about technical material and he has done some great interviews, but I question using him as a keynote speaker. Bottom line, I didn't feel there was much to be excited about and it didn't sound like the crowd did either.
personally i think azure is reaaally boring with one exception, hosting your own clouds. other than that, azure is just a server that happsens to be in the cloud. and thats a good thing, a server shouldnt get in your way, it should enable you to host and manage stuff, and azure does that. its just not very interesting to hear about :)
now private clouds are very interesting.. i really hope you can cobble together clouds out of idle desktops, that would unlock sooo much computing power that is mainly sitting idle today..
@aL: 'Private Clouds' are just virtualization in drag.
The power of true Platform as a Service offering: 1. Ability to elastically scale- i.e. I need 10,000 servers for 3 hours 2. A much more transparent charge back model - i.e. I actually pay for what I use so I'm encouraged to make efficient use of it.
Azure is plenty interesting, but, maybe more to business people that to techos.
I didn't care for the keynote. It was not compelling. At all.
Bob looked like he had not slept since April and was hurried out on stage in a jacket that belonged to a much taller man. A jacket which, judging my how much he was sweating, was made of Gore-Tex and lined with a polar bear hide.
The technical presenters were good. I just expected more. Had the rest of the conference been like the keynote, I would never attend another Tech-Ed.
Azure. Dot net framework 4.0. Cloud. It's all starting to become so bloated and exposed. At the rate in which Microsoft patches Windows, Sql, makes one wonder what happens once information is breached. Intellitrace? Good hosting?
Bob's skillset may lie in something other than being a keynote speaker.
New Orleans certainly was an excellent example of how everyone would be screwed if they are on the cloud where there is poor internet connectivity. The conference wireless was not useable. The wireless carriers in general had abysmal service, and the so called broadband in my hotel was slower than dial up - and it was slower than dial up days before the conference too.
now private clouds are very interesting.. i really hope you can cobble together clouds out of idle desktops, that would unlock sooo much computing power that is mainly sitting idle today..
The power of true Platform as a Service offering:
1. Ability to elastically scale- i.e. I need 10,000 servers for 3 hours
2. A much more transparent charge back model - i.e. I actually pay for what I use so I'm encouraged to make efficient use of it.
Azure is plenty interesting, but, maybe more to business people that to techos.
Bob looked like he had not slept since April and was hurried out on stage in a jacket that belonged to a much taller man. A jacket which, judging my how much he was sweating, was made of Gore-Tex and lined with a polar bear hide.
The technical presenters were good. I just expected more. Had the rest of the conference been like the keynote, I would never attend another Tech-Ed.
New Orleans certainly was an excellent example of how everyone would be screwed if they are on the cloud where there is poor internet connectivity.
The conference wireless was not useable. The wireless carriers in general had abysmal service, and the so called broadband in my hotel was slower than dial up - and it was slower than dial up days before the conference too.