Azure IaaS for IT Pros Online Event

A great online event is coming to Microsoft Virtual Academy in December. IT Pros, generalists, implementers, and anyone working with virtualization technologies, this course is for you. It will be a week of Azure training for IT professionals, over a course of 4 days. It will be a Fast-paced live virtual session which will be recorded and later posted on MVA.
Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer for Azure, will kick that 4 days course of Azure training following which Senior Technical Evangelist Rick Claus and members of Azure Engineering will be delivering deep dive sessions into the technologies critical for IT Pro Implementers. These sessions will help you better understand and build the foundational cloud skills. Not only you will benefit from the experts who will be sharing their deep technical insights on these topics, this course will also prepare you to  take Exam 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft Azure Specialist Certification.   

Topics include: 

Day 1:  Establish the Foundation: Core IaaS Infrastructure Technical Fundamentals

• View from the CTO: Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer - Azure
• Azure IaaS Virtual Machines Inside Out
• Optimize Your Windows Server Workloads on Azure
• Inside IaaS Architecture Best Practices and Management

Day 2:  Dive Deep into Networking, Storage and Disaster Recovery Scenarios

• • Designing Networking and Hybrid Connectivity Infrastructure
  • Deep Dive Into Storage Using Azure Backup, Data Protection Manager, StorSimple, and InMage
  • Planning Disaster Recovery, Migration and More
  • Learn the Ins and Outs of Azure Automation, PowerShell and Desired State Configurator

Day 3:  Embrace Open Source Technologies (Chef and Puppet Configurations, Containerization with Docker, and Linux) to Accelerate and Scale Solutions

• • How to Deploy Linux and OSS on Azure
  • Leverage Existing Chef / Puppet toolsets for management
  • How to Implement Containerization with Docker to Increase Density and Performance of Virtual Machines
  • Creating Large Scale Linux Deployments on Azure

Day 4:  Optimize Windows Workload Architecture and Administration Capabilities Within Azure

• • Identity Solutions: Leveraging Azure Active Directory / Active Directory Premium
  • Azure Websites: Manage Your Websites not Your VMs
  • Leveraging SQL Azure for Your Solutions to Increase Scale
  • Architecting SharePoint for the Cloud

 

Register through Microsoft Virtual Academy to receive reminder mails for this event and to obtain details for receiving a voucher for 50 percent off the exam price if taken by January 31^st. Join the conversation on Twitter using #LevelUpAzure.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2014
  Cool!

• Anonymous
  November 29, 2014
  Thanks!