ArcReady kicks off their Spring Tour with a discussion that’s on most everyone’s mind these days – the “Cloud”. At the Microsoft PDC conference in October 2008, Microsoft announced our next vision of the Software + Services vision with the Azure Services Platform. During this ArcReady event join in the discussion on what the cloud computing envrionment looks like today and what Microsoft is thinking with the Azure Services Platform. The discussion will continue by looking into some of these cloud based services with Live Services and Mesh.

These ArcReady events are being presented in tandem with MSDN Unleashed and TechNet Unleashed. Be sure to check out those events as well.

Session 1: Cloud Services

In our first session we will explore the current state of cloud services. We will then look at how applications should be architected for the cloud and explore a reference application deployed on Windows Azure. We will also look at the services that can be built for on premises application, using .NET Services. We will also address some of the concerns that enterprises have about cloud services, such as regulatory and compliance issues.

Session 2: Mesh and Live Services

In our second session we will take a slightly different look at cloud based services by exploring Live Mesh and Live Services. Live Mesh is a data synchronization client that has a rich API to build applications on. Live services are a collection of APIs that can be used to create rich applications for your customers. Live Services are based on internet standard protocols and data formats.

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