Applications power business, but there comes a time that even the most mission-critical applications must be modernized. The built-in, isolated applications of legacy are rapidly giving way to the multi-channel applications of the future. By leveraging Azure’s serverless and managed services you can modernize and future-proof your applications.

We will review how to perform the strategic activity of Application Portfolio Development as well as review several tactical modernization activities. This presentation covers the challenges of modernization, the process of developing your application portfolio, modernizing using Azure, and utilizing strategies such as containers, microservices, serverless, and DevOps. For each piece, Azure technologies offer time and cost-saving benefits.

Topics Reviewed:

• Cloud Readiness
• Application Portfolio Development and Modernization
• Modernization with Managed Services
• Modernization with Containers
• Modernization with Microservices
• Modernization with Serverless
• The Role of DevOps in Modernization

This presentation will demonstrate Azure’s Vision and Content Moderator Cognitive Services on a fictitious social media application. It will show how to recognize items in uploaded images and to check for “inappropriate” material in images and text.

Topics Reviewed:

• Tagging visual features
• Detecting objects
• Categorizing images
• Machine-created descriptions of images
• Detect faces
• Text moderation

In this presentation, Senior Consultant Zach Gardner discusses the question: “How can App Services be used to deploy enterprise greenfield or legacy applications to production?” This is the kind of presentation any architect or dev manager looking towards the cloud will find beneficial. Common App Service resources that members of an enterprise need to understand will be introduced and explained.

Topics Reviewed:

• Tenant, Subscription, Resource Groups
• App Service Plan
• Application Gateway with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Web Apps
• Web Jobs
• App Insights
• SLA (Budget and Performance) Alerts
• Pros and Cons of App Service

This is a free, one to two-hour cloud readiness assessment with an in-depth Q&A analysis covering five topics: the current state of Infrastructure, Application Code, Data, DevOps, and Team Maturity.

This Q&A session is designed to assess your cloud readiness. Cloud experts help your team members to understand potential pain points and realistic expectations.

This free, one-hour consultation provides an overview of the vast options available on the Azure Cloud Platform. This educational video and one-hour consultation touch on six options within the wide world of Microsoft Azure.

The Azure cloud platform is vast and it can be difficult to determine the best option given unique requirements. The goal of the consultation is to help determine if you're on the right Azure path and offer recommendations for your unique project.

In this free, one-hour briefing, we will introduce you to Hyperledger Fabric and show how to deploy and configure a Blockchain network on an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) template.

At the end of this briefing, you will obtain a working knowledge of Hyperledger Fabric and the various components that form the building blocks of Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network and learn how to deploy and configure a Hyperledger Fabric consortium on Azure Kubernetes Service for your production scenarios.

In this 80-hour workshop, we will help you develop a unique Roadmap to Migrate on-premise .NET enterprise applications to Azure. Intended for CTOs, Directors, and Architects to be able to present an Organizational Migration Plan.

Our Microsoft-certified team of Azure experts is ready to help you take your business to Azure with a customized migration Roadmap that will work best for you.