Cloud & ALM in Qatar

"Leaving, on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again" - no, I won't inflict me singing on anyone, but I will be on a plane to Qatar tomorrow: I'll be presenting on Cloud and ALM on Wednesday & Thursday. Join us:

The Azure Services Platform offers a range of businesses flexibility, control, and an affordable solution for running Web-scale applications. The services reduce tedious and expensive infrastructure management and planning and are built with security and reliability in mind, along with the option of a pay-as-you-go model.

Whether you’re a software vendor, corporate IT group, or a start-up, by using the services platform you can focus on your business and the needs of your customers.

· Simplify Capacity Planning – Additional computing and services capacity can be available for your needs, eliminating the need for planning, purchasing, and provisioning expensive hardware to meet unpredictable spikes in usage.

· Simple Infrastructure Management – The services platform manages critical operating system updates and management tasks, giving you control of the environment while letting you focus on the needs of your users.

· Give New Life To Existing Investments - The services platform can be used to provide new capabilities to existing on-premises and Web applications. The Azure Services Platform can be integrated into existing applications or used to expose on-premises application services to consumers, business partners, or other organizations.

We invite you to attend a one day seminar to learn how Windows Azure with Visual Studio can help your organization’s developers deliver web and connected applications. Come see the future:

Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Application Platform

· What is the Cloud?

· What is Windows Azure?

· What about the Enterprise?

· What about the Developers?

· Demo!

College of the North Atlantic, Doha, Qatar

25 February 2009

09:30 to lunch at 1:30pm

To register for this seminar, please send email to Sandy Lulu.

A recent Forrester Research study indicated that one-third of enterprises are already using Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) to coordinate their development activities to produce software applications. Another study by the Standish Group found that only one-third of IT projects succeed. Is your ALM solution helping you succeed?

An ALM solution can help you:

· Speed development

· Improve quality

· Improve productivity

· Cut maintenance time and cost

· Aid in collaboration

· Increase agility

We invite you to attend a one day seminar to learn how ALM and Microsoft’s ALM solution, Visual Studio Team System, can help give you the edge for your next software project.

Microsoft Application Life-Cycle Management Seminar

· The Business Case for ALM tools and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System

· Value-Up Software Development

· Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)

· Examples and Outcomes of Microsoft’s use of ALM and the SDL

· Adoption Roadmap: How to gain these benefits for your team

College of the North Atlantic, Doha, Qatar

26 February 2009

09:30am to lunch at 1:30pm

To register for this seminar, please send email to Sandy Lulu.