Future directions of Microsoft Application Platform     

Take the chance to meet with the Microsoft Application Platform Product Group from Redmond in Stockholm. In collaboration with the Swedish SQL User Group we’ve invited the Microsoft product teams to come and talk about high-level roadmap for each of the products, along with technical drill-downs and demos. 

The Swedish BizTalk User Group has many times been fortunate to present speakers with great expertise of BizTalk and related technologies. However, we’ve never had anyone with the insight knowledge of where the platforms are moving, as we have at this event.

This event will hold five sessions, and will start at 16:00 on the 29^th of September. The agenda will begin with two sequential Roadmap sessions, after which we’ll take a break for something to eat and drink.

After the break we’ll continue with two parallel drill-down sessions on each of the platforms. Please select which of the two sessions you’d like to attend, by choosing either of the two ticket types. You may also choose , to only attend the roadmap sessions.

SELECT ONLY ONE TICKET TYPE!

Agenda

Session details

AppFabric/BizTalk Roadmap

The AppFabric CAT team will cover the current and future directions for:

·         Windows Server AppFabric,

·         BizTalk Server 2010

·         Windows Azure AppFabric.

Roadmap SQL 11 and Beyond

The SQLCAT team will provide an:

·         Overview of the SQL Server roadmap

·         Insight into the features and functionality that SQL 11 codenamed ‘Denali’ will include:

o   OLTP scale Denali update

o   SSIS Denali Enhancements

o   Readable secondary improvements in SQL 11

Designing High Scale OLTP systems

·         With the combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 it has now become possible to run SQL Server on up to 256 Cores. Recently, the SQL CAT team had a customer in the lab to test a banking application at high scale-up. Previously, we had test runs for the same application on 32-cores – but now the time had come to stress the app to 128 Cores.

·         In this session, I will talk about the lessons we learned from stress testing an OLTP workload at this scale. You will see some interesting bottlenecks and get an idea of what sort of numbers are achievable on a big SQL Server box. Of course, I will also provide you with the guidance on how to get those numbers.

Management Tasks Made Simpler in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010

In this session we discuss managing BizTalk Server, both for small and large deployments. We discuss what we are doing in BizTalk 2010 to make BizTalk management simpler, to facilitate performance optimization via unified dashboard for settings, to improve diagnostics and control with a new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) pack, etc. We also discuss our vision for manageability in future releases and the roadmap to achieve that vision.

Speakers

Curt Peterson

Curt Peterson is a Principal Group Program Manager with Microsoft Corporation in the SQL Server development organization, where he leads the AppFabric CAT (Customer Advisory Team) group.  This group specializes in implementing the most challenging customer middleware, cloud, and distributed applications worldwide using the entire Microsoft application platform.  With this customer experience Mr. Peterson drives high-quality product planning for a number of products such as; BizTalk, AppFabric, Entity Framework, StreamInsight, Azure, and other Microsoft middleware components.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Peterson was a Distinguished Engineer with Neudesic, LLC where he was responsible for the creation and growth of one of the largest dedicated BizTalk practices in the Microsoft partner community.  Whilst at Neudesic Mr. Peterson also worked with Microsoft to build a virtual community of BizTalk experts; he was the initial BizTalk V-TS (Virtual Technical Specialist) in the program.  Mr. Peterson has over 25 years of experience in hardware and software engineering, specializing in mission critical, distributed applications, and high performance real-time systems.  He has been granted a number of patents for his technical work, is a frequent speaker and author at a wide variety of technical seminars.

Mark Souza

Mark Souza is a Director in the Microsoft SQL Server development group. He heads up the Product Group’s Customer Advisory Team. This team specializes in implementing the most challenging customer database applications worldwide. His experience focuses on the issues related to the distribution, modeling, design, and performance of data with a distributed computing application. Mr. Souza uses this customer experience to drive high quality SQL Server product planning back in Redmond. Mr. Souza's twenty five+ years in the Information Technology business has consisted of database administration, end-user tool management, systems engineering database specialist/lead, client/server architect, Microsoft regional data technology specialist and SQL Server development customer advisory team.

Mr. Souza has a Masters Degree in MIS from Marist College and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from SUNY Potsdam. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife Lisa of 22 years and three beautiful children (Andrew 15, Megan 12 and Jennifer 10). He also enjoys reading, running, sports and attending broadway shows in his spare time.

Ewan Fairweather

Ewan Fairweather has worked for Microsoft for five years. He currently works as a program manager in the Business Platform Division on the Customer Advisory Team (CAT) working on large scale Integration and OLTP SQL applications.  Prior to this, Ewan spent three years working for Microsoft U.K. in the Premier Field Engineering team where he worked with enterprise customers, helping them to maintain and optimize their BizTalk applications. This included working in a dedicated capacity on some of the world's largest BizTalk deployments, predominantly within financial services.

Ewan coauthored the successful Professional BizTalk Server 2006 (Wrox, 2007) and has written many white papers for Microsoft including the "Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide," which is available on the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) Web site. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ewan worked as a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI) for a regional training organization, delivering advanced routing and networking courses. Ewan holds a bachelor's degree in computing with management from the University of Leeds. Outside of work, Ewan's hobbies include reading, taking part in as many sports as possible, and regularly going to the gym.

Paolo Salvatori

I was born on 9th october 1969 in Pisa, the city of the leaning tower placed right in the heart of Tuscany. In 1988 I finished the high school with the maximum degree (60/60) and in 1993 I graduated with the maximum degree in Informatic Sciences at the University of Pisa. I had my military service as a Navy Officer (1 year and 3 monthes) then I started to work on January 1995 in Unisys. I joined Microsoft on 12th october of 1997 as an evangelist. After a couple of years I decided to move to a new role so I started to work in the Services Division where I spent 8 years as a developer and architect. On July 2007 I joined the Connected Systems Division to cover the role of EMEA BizTalk Ranger.

Thomas Kejser

Thomas has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and performance tuned cubes since OLAP Server 7.0. He has worked on some of the largest cubes in the world. Performing fast loading of warehousing and removing every bottleneck is one of Thomas specialties. He holds a master degree in computer science and has 10+ years of experience with developer coaching and scalable architectures on both OLTP and OLAP systems.