Meeting Topic:

Intro to Windows Azure

Description:

During this session we'll explore an introduction to Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure cloud platform. Covered will be basics of the cloud dev tools, a look at Table, Blob, and Queue storage, and a dive into some of the specifics of SQL Azure.

Speaker Bio:

Ryan Duclos is a Senior Technical Consultant for Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), where he is passionate about Microsoft development utilizing the .Net Framework and SQL Server technologies. He lives and works in LA (Lower Alabama!) and loves spending time with his family, as well as being a Community Influencer for Microsoft. Ryan can often be found at regional events as both a speaker and an attendee.

Date/Time:

Thursday August 26 @ 6:30 PM

Location:

Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter
130 East Government Street, Pensacola, Florida, 32501, UNITED STATES

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Our sponsor this month is telerik.  Telerik is a leading vendor of development, team productivity, and automated testing tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and to deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Telerik was founded in 2002 by a few friends with a simple idea – to “deliver more than expected”. Nowadays, a market leader with a team of more than 220 professionals spread around the globe in 5 offices, Telerik is still true to its motto – building outstanding products and serving customers with fanatical dedication.

Meeting Topic:

Solid State Drives and Database Performance

Description:

Solid-state technologies are changing the way that MS SQL users run their databases. DBA’s are achieving significant TCO savings through performance enhancements, reliability improvements, and reduced energy and real estate costs using solid-state technologies.  Solid state is changing the way datacenters look and how MS SQL Servers perform.

Speaker Bio:

Sumeet Bansal is Principal Solutions Architect for Fusion-io. He designs architectural solutions with Fusion-io products that deliver unprecedented levels of scalability, performance and simplicity. Sumeet has more than 11 years IT and database-infrastructure experience, including work as vice-president of information technology at MS SQL-based Internet retailer Wine.com, senior database architect for MS SQL-based eVineyard inc., and systems analyst for Akiba Bank Limited.

Date/Time:

Thursday September 23 @ 6:30 PM

Location:

Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter
130 East Government Street, Pensacola, Florida, 32501, UNITED STATES

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Fusion-io is a provider of solid state storage that can be deployed wherever there is a need to accelerate performance of I/O intensive applications and workloads, scale virtual machine deployments, drive faster financial transactions, and accelerate database and data mining performance.

We will be raffling off an iPod signed by Steve Wozniak himself!!