This March 30th, in the Burlington, MA office of Microsoft, will be SQL Saturday Boston, BI Edition!

I will be speaking on a topic near and dear to me:

Re-Architect your Software as a Service Application for Azure: Tips and Tricks

I walk through a high level architecture of a real-world application: A Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider who does financial transactions wanted to explore migrating to the cloud.

Why would they want to move off-premises? Well, apparently buying a new SAN (Storage area Network) for storage every few months was becoming less economical, and they wanted to also reduce the workload of maintaining this application.

Finally, they ran out of datacenter space, and had another 13,000 customers they could not sell to, due to that space restriction! This mean serious financial opportunity loss.

They chose Azure, and a team of us at Microsoft helped them build a path to get them from on-premises to Azure.

I talk through the journey this customer went through, what their architecture was like, and how it ended up. This relates to both business and technical challenges.

In the end, of course, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) matters as much as reducing the workload to maintain a mission critical SaaS application.

There are many other great speakers who will be delivering great content as well. I hope to see you all there!