In this session, Mitch Denny (Platform Technology Specialist – Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP) and Alessandro Cardoso (Microsoft MVP, National Manager – Solutions Platform) will discuss the opportunities and offerings that will benefit organisations, as well as the challenges and migration strategies to help overcome these.

Topics covered:

• Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS offerings:
• Application Lift & Shift Scenarios
• Cloud-born Applications that Leverage Office 365 & Yammer
• Cloud Identity
• Cloud-enabled Mobile Device Management with Windows InTune
• Hybrid Cloud deployment model involving Hyper-V and System Center
• Network Integration
• Migration strategies to Public Cloud
• Driving SaaS Adoption

Target Audience

• CTO
• CIO
• CEO
• IT Managers
• Dev Managers

Timing

Registrations open at 8.30am*
Presentation will commence at 9am sharp and finish at 11am.

*A light breakfast will be provided

About the Presenters

Alessandro Cardoso | Readify National Manager - Platform Solutions
Alessandro Cardoso is a passionate technology evangelist and a subject matter expert in cloud, virtualization and management. He recently published his book; 'Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook' http://wp.me/p15Fu3-mK.and has reviewed 5 other books. Alessandro is a speaker at key technical events in Australia and New Zealand and has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2009. Alessandro leads major virtualization projects for large customers in APJ with depth across the Microsoft and VMware technologies stack.

Mitch Denny | Readify Platform Technology Specialist – Microsoft
Mitch Denny has been working with the .NET platform since the year 2000 when the first alpha releases shipped. Since then he has been awarded MVP status nine times in ASP.NET and more recently Microsoft ALM. Currently Mitch is working as Readify’s Platform Technology Specialist - focusing on bringing exciting new products and services to market and working with technical specialists to continually refine our technical vision.