At the Professional Developer Conference 2008 Microsoft kicked announced their cloud compute, storage and management service called Windows Azure. These are the essential services and we can think of this as the Cloud OS. Next we have the Azure Service Platform. This includes .Net Services, SQL Services and Live Services. Microsoft SQL Azure is now the all up brand for the scale out database service in the cloud. Microsoft SQL Azure delivers on the Microsoft Data Platform vision of extending the SQL Server capabilities to the cloud as web-based services, enabling you to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. SQL Services will deliver a rich set of integrated services that enable you to perform relational queries, search, reporting, analytics, integration and synchronize data with mobile users, remote offices and business partners. Come hear how Microsoft SQL Azure is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing database applications and extend them to the cloud. Learn how Microsoft SQL Azure provides highly available and scalable relational database storage and capabilities while allowing you to leverage existing SQL Server knowledge, protocols, client libraries and tools.
About Tom: Tom Pizzato is a Data Platform Architect for Microsoft Corporation. In his 19 years at Microsoft, Tom has worked exclusively with database technologies. Tom has spent the majority of his time at Microsoft working with our Enterprise Customers. He has also spent two years working with our State & Local Government customers. His work has included the introduction of Microsoft Access, all versions of SQL Server and FoxPro into the Midwest District. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tom worked in the banking industry.
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