Security, the NSA and Windows Azure Pack with Christian Weyer
Carl and Richard chat with Christian Weyer about his experiences working with cloud technologies in Germany. The conversation starts out pretty grim, digging into how the NSA revelations have chilled interest in cloud technology because of security and privacy concerns. Christian talks about how the technology of Azure is more compelling than ever, but customers just aren't willing to use it. This leads to a conversation about Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server, which brings many Azure technologies to your own internal networks. There's a number of different ways to use Windows Azure Pack, including as a self-service portal to provide testing infrastructure for developers - talk to your ops folks and try it out!
Guests:
Christian Weyer
Christian Weyer is a well-known veteran in designing and implementing distributed applications architectures. With his company Thinktecture he has been focusing on end-to-end aspects of distributed software systems in the past 16 years. His toolset includes technologies like ASP.NET, WebAPI, SignalR, WCF, or Microsoft Azure. These days he is rather a friend of lightweight architectures based on Web APIs and Push Services and focuses on mobile-first applications on various client platforms. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, user group talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for ASP.NET and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director for Germany. Get in touch with him at christian.weyer@thinktecture.com or http://weblogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/.
Links:
- Bug Bounties from Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn425036.aspx
- Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx