MS TechEd NA 2012 - Keynote day 1

Yesterday the Microsoft TechEd North America started with the day 1 Keynote, that is,  if you skip the Pre-Con's that were already given on sunday.

I've followed the live stream of the Keynote and have put some points together, you can watch the whole video here: Keynote day 1. The video starts automatically at 1:29:40 with Satya Nadella.

For myself Amir Netz was amazing with his PowerView demo!

@1:29:40

Satya Nadella - President Server and Tools

• Virtualization

• Workload > sharing of resources

• Powershell > automate anything
• 2400 cmdlets

 @1:46:50

Jeff Woolsey - Principal Program Manager

Windows Server Virtualization

• Server 2012 / HyperV, some numbers:
• 320 logical processors per server
• 4 TB per server
• 64 virtual processors per vm
• 64 TB per virtual disk
• 64 nodes, 4k VM's
• IOMeter: 985.000 I/O per sec from 1 virtual machine

• Network Virtualization 

@1:59:50

Satya Nadella

• Video of introduction of  Windows Server 2012

@2:03:20

Mark Russinovich - Windows Azure

• Infrastructure as a service
• Easy creation of new VM's

@2:16:10

Satya Nadella

• Modern datacenter
• Server 2012 / Azure

• Modern apps (lifecycle)
• Personal
• Social (sharing)
• Intelligent
• Tools (VS2012) 

@2:22:00

Scott Guthrie - Corp. VP  Azure App Platform

• VS 2012: ASP.Net MVC 4 project
• Mobile plug-in for testing
• Very funny part @2:31:00
• Integration with TFS to Azure website
• Automative build and run unit-test, when positive deploy to Azure

@2:32:35

Jason Zander - Corp. VP Visual Studio

• Metro style apps
• VS LigthSwitch
• Odata

• Additional support
• jQuery
• iPad emulator

• Agile development
• System Center closely integrated with VS to debug and adjust problems and switch from developer to IT-pro.
• @2:47:45 demo video of ING Direct Australia

@2:49:15

Satya Nadella

• Big Data

@2:53:20

Amir Netz - SQL Server (Power View demo)

Technical Fellow

• Analyse (sentiment of) tweets to predict movie revenues and needed allocation of theaters
• 12.4 mln tweets of movies
• 1st week sales
• 2nd week sales

• Manage brands (awareness of actors)
• Sentiment of brand
• Effect / impact of events on brands (like oscar nominations)
• Small brands have major effect
• Established brands (Brad Pitt) have small effect

@3:04:00

Satya Nadella

• Summarisation & Conclusion