Tired of getting paged at 2:00am due to a bug in the developer’s code or infrastructure problems? Frustrated by Shadow IT and developers going around your back to publish applications? IT operations can play an important part working at every stage of the application lifecycle (ALM) and become an agent of DevOps transformation in your company, leading to accelerated delivery, optimized usage of resources, improved availability, and increased application quality. Learn to better understand your developer’s world and – on a technical level – see how to deploy applications and infrastructure as code to Microsoft Azure using PowerShell and resource group templates. Set up continuous deployments to Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio Online, and detect and fix problems earlier by monitoring your applications and infrastructure using Application Insights and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This session will be helpful if you are planning on starting a DevOps initiative inside your organization or looking for some guidance on where and how to get going. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B222