Presentation by Ashwin Karuhatty Director of Academic Programmes at Microsoft to UK Cloud Education day 2013

1. Windows Azure in Academia
Ashwin Karuhatty
Director, Global Academic Programs

2. devices
services
2003
2010
2015
2020
50 billion
MOOCs
Industry and Technology Trends
By year-end 2013, consumer cloud
services for accessing content will be
integrated into 90% of all connected
devices.
The phenomenon has been
likened by the president of
Stanford University to"a digital
tsunami", threatening to sweep
aside conventionaluniversity
education
- The Guardian

3. Student Patterns in MOOC
http://mfeldstein.com/emerging-student-patterns-in-moocs-a-revised-graphical-view/

4. PC, tablet, phone
server and cloud

5. 6

6. Technical Faculty Programs: overview
7
IT Academy:
Certification
MSP
Student Partners
Imagine Cup:
mentors
Faculty
Connection
Curriculum
Resources
DreamSpark:
Software & Tools
App
Development
Windows
Azure
Educator
Grants

7. Faculty Connection Portal
400 000+
Downloads a year
Repository Resources
• 3K curriculum materials
• Software tools
• Curriculum Resourcekits
• Training materials
• Presentationvideos
• Newsletter
www.microsoft.com/faculty
• Provides technical resources, training, and
software tools
• Source for MS specificnews,technology
highlights and events

8. Faculty Connection: On-line Curriculum Resource Kits

9. Resources
for teaching with
Windows Azure

10. Windows Azure
Web Sites
Start for free and scale
as you go
• Web Sites
• SQL Database
• Caching
• CDN
• Storage
Mobiles Services
Turnkey backend
solutions for your mobile
app
• SQL Database
• Mobile Services
Cloud Services
Enterprise-grade cloud
platform
• Cloud Services
• SQL Database
• Caching
• Business Analytics
• Service Bus, Identity
Virtual Machines
Infrastructure on your
terms
• Windows VMs
• Linux VMs
• Storage
• Virtual Network
• Identify
Big Data
Get actionable insights
from your data
• Hadoop, Business
Analytics
• Storage
• SQL Database
• Marketplace
Media
Ingest, Encode, Protect,
Stream
• Media Services
• CDN
• Storage
Enables you to quickly build,deploy and manage applicationsacross a global network of
Microsoft-managed datacenters.You can build applicationsusing any operating system,
language or tool.

12. Direct to Students
 Azure Training
Camps
 7 Days passes distributed
by Microsoft Staff
 Hackathons/Appath
ons
 5 month passesto
encourage app
development,distributed
by Microsoft TE direct to
Students.
 9 Month Passes for
Imagine Cup
Competitors
 Distributed by Imagine
Cup team to Students
passing Quiz #1 and
those in Round 2 of
other challenges.
Through Faculty
 Enabling In-Class
Teaching of Cloud
 Faculty must apply
online at
www.WindowsAzure.com/
Education
 Request passes for
themselves and students
 Supporting Educators
 12 Month Passes
distributed to verified
faculty & instructors,
renewable for extra year.
 5 month passes given for
students in the class; can
be extended per request.
www.windowsazure.com/education
Any question: AzureU@microsoft.com
credit card is not required
Windows Azure Educator Grants

13. Educator Grants: www.WindowsAzure.com/Education
Includes the following resources:
Windows Azure
o 2 small compute instances / VMs
o 35GB of storage (Enhanced as of Mid-September)
o 50,000,000 storage transactions (Enhanced as of Mid-September)
o 10 Shared Web Sites
o 10 Shared Mobile Services
SQL Azure
o Two 1GB Web Edition database
Azure AppFabric
o 250,000 Service Bus messages (Enhanced as of Mid-September)
o 750 Service Bus Relay hours
1 Hosted Service
Data Transfers (per region)
o 8 GB in (Enhanced as of Mid-September)
o 8 GB out (Enhancedas of Mid-September)
Premium Services:
10 free Web Sites, 10 free Mobile Services,
and Virtual Machines (incl. Linux)

14. Apply for Windows Azure Educator Grant: www.windowsazure.com/education

15. Sign up for an Azure Account

16. Azure Tracker
tracker.windowsazurepass.com

17. Azure Resources
http://www.facultyresourcecenter.com

18. Level: Intermediate level
Prerequisites: beginner
level of C# Programming
Skills, basic use of Visual
Studio and understanding
of Relational Databases.
Requirements: No
Previous Cloud Computing
needed. The Lab
Environment requires a
minimum VS 2010 or VS
2012 Express for Web, 4
GB RAM, and Internet
access.
Each moduleconsists of a
lecture and a lab.
The lab exercises are
designed for 2 hour
sessions.
There is also an Instructor
Supplement available
containing the solutions to
Labs 2, 3, 4 and 5 -
Windows Azure and SQL
Database (Faculty Only).
Module 1: Overview of Cloud Computing
Module 2: Windows Azure Fundamentals
Module 3: Windows Azure Storage
Module 4: Windows Azure SQL Database – The
Fundamentals
Module 5: More about Windows Azure SQL
Database
Module 6: Virtual Machines and Web Sites
Module 7: Windows Azure Mobile Service
Module 8: Windows Azure Applications
Windows Azure and Windows Azure SQL Curriculum Resources
Check out the Online Cloud ComputingResources Kit
Suggested Curriculum Resources
Introduction to Cloud Computing: AzureforCS101
This package contains three 1-hour lessons onthe principles of cloudcomputing. The target
audience is the instructors ofsecond or thirdyear undergraduate classes incomputer
science or software engineering. Eachlessonconsists ofa PowerPoint deck, video, sample
programs, and homework assignments.
Windows Azure and SQL Database
This curriculum provides foundation informationabout Cloud Computing ingeneral and
Windows Azure andSQL Database inparticular. The tutorialscover how to developfor the
Windows Azure environment and howto use SQL Database as the back-end RDBMS.
Creating Virtual Machines andusing the WebSites feature of Windows Azure is also included
with Windows 8 and Windows Azure Mobile Services. Thismaterial includes 8 PowerPoint
presentations,6labs, sample ideas for projects and selectedcase studies.
Teaching Web-scaleData Management on a Cloud
While a classic undergraduate course ondatabases dealswith small data tablesof highly
structureddata hosted ona single machine DBMS, this course aims at exposing students to
web-scale structured+ unstructureddata hosted/computed onmultiple machines.
Cloud Computing - Software Engineering Fundamentals
This short course is byProfessorsHeinzelreiter andKurschl from the Upper Austria
University. The material defineskeyterms, discusses keysoftware technologiesandcloud
software architecture issues. It also shows implementations of comparable sample
applications basedon Windows Azure andGoogle App Engine.
Windows Phoneand Azure
This short course byRobMiles, Universityof Hull, is anadd-on to Windows Phone
ProgramminginC#. It uses presentations, labs anddemos to introduce students to the
basics of how cloudcomputingworks, what it brings to the Windows Phone user andhowto
use the Windows Azure Windows Phone Toolkit to create applications.

19. Invitation to Azure University Faculties

20. Azure Universities in FY13
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Azure Universities
Belgium Canada China Colombia Finland France Germany India
Ireland Israel Portugal Russia Taiwan Turkey UK USA
UK Universitiesin the Program
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Sheffield Hallam University
• UCL
• Willingdon Community School
• Teesside University
• Plymouth
• University of Chester
• University of Manchester
• ClystVale Community College
• University of Westminster
• Edinburgh Napier University
• WMSF

21. What you can do?
• Be on top of industry trends (Cloud Computing
and Mobile Computing)
• Leverage Azure Educator Grants (and the Ja.net
partnership)
• Sign-up today to be part of Azure University
Faculties

22. Q&A