Event Report - Microsoft TechEd Day 1 Keynote - Top3 Enterprise Takeaways

And here are my top 3 takeaways from the keynote

• The future is the Hybrid cloud – There can be no doubt that Microsoft keeps investing in the direction of hybrid cloud. And the direction certainly makes sense for Microsoft given where its customers are right now. Making the move to cloud easy is key for Microsoft’s success in the enterprise. Active Directory hold the keys - and Microsoft never gets tired of showing the benefits. 

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• It’s the IT guy, stupid – Even though Anderon and other presenters did not mention it expressively – it’s clear that the pitch of TechEd was for the IT executive and his right hand – the system administrator. Backup in the cloud, fail over for sites, and securing, controlling mobile applications and securing mobile Office capabilities were featured prominently.

Creation of a RemoteApp

• Launch of RemoteApp – Being able to make Apps available remotely has long been a bread and butter service for most IT organization. Being able to now deploy these Apps to Windows Azure and have users not only consume them on Windows devices but also (through containers) on iOS and Android is very powerful. And there are all the benefits of the cloud – elastic scaling or resources – so enterprises will only pay for what they use. 

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