Visiting Harvard – CSCI E-175 – Cloud Computing and Software

Just got back from Harvard where I teamed up with Jim O’Neil to talk about the Windows Azure Cloud Platform to the class CSCI E-175 Cloud Computing and Software as a Service. This was at the invitation of the Dr. Zoran B. Djordjevic – who also hosted us last year, and the year before that it was Jim and some guy named Chris.

Like last year, the class was engaged, asking tough and interesting questions… which is all the more impressive since this class meets on FRIDAY NIGHT. Must be a Harvard thing… Anyhow, we went from around 5:30 – 8:00… ON FRIDAY NIGHT. 🙂

Below are the resources I mentioned at the end of my talk, and the slide deck I used is here: Harvard-WhyAzureIsAwesome-Bill-Wilder-04-Nov-2011

• http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp11/current/2011-Cascais/printable/11-calder.pdf

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/whitepapers /

• http ://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=CMG001_Search

• http ://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing /

Also, hope to see all of you at Boston Azure user group meetings! Feel free to contact me with any follow-up questions.

The slide deck Jim O’Neil used is here, plus here are a few action shots of Jim doing his thang:

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