Joseph Paradi discusses real world uses for Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Geneva Server.

2. Authorization

3. Data Synchronization

4. Security of Data

5. Application Integration

6. Operations / ManagementReduce the cost/effort to move to Azure

7. Microsoft Azure Datacenter Demo Infrastructure Orgchart App Database User Accenture Datacenter Lookup App Database “Geneva” Server AD

8. Show the Demo!

10. Authorization – “Geneva” server created a custom claim that only contained the data elements required for the application to make the authorization decision

11. Data Sync – An SSIS package was used to pull data rows and columns using a view from the internal data table and load to the SQL Azure instance

13. Operations/Management – today we cannot use our standard model for creating events in the Windows Event Log and then capturing those with SCOM. We are looking at whether we could build a .NET Services layer to handle it.

15. Blog post on how to add geneva claims handling to an app

16. Geneva server already existed for other apps – defined new relying party and claims to be transmitted

17. Used SQL Azure Migration Wizardto create SQL Database objects on SQL Azure

18. Created view on internal SQL data and used SSIS to move it to SQL AzureOverall, the initial version of this took about 40 hours of effort from both of us and it has been modified only slightly since then (another 10 hours of effort).

20. You can get running very quickly without new infrastructure (assuming you already have “Geneva”)

21. You do not have to worry about the plumbing, you just have to build the application