TechEd 2013: Keynote: Cloud OS – It’s time

June 25, 2013 Max Melcher

2 minute read

First keynote here with Brad Anderson (Vice President at Microsoft) and others.

Lots of impressions, he covered most of the new stuff.

My takeaways

Workspace Sync – Is that a “new” SkyDrive? Appears after you join your device to a company network. Needs Server 2012 R2.
Azure VM: Charge per Minute/ no charge when shut down
Visual Studio: Faster pace; updates are distributed faster.
Code Link: Integration in VS to see who is working on a code block, calling references and user working on this code.
VS2013 Preview download available tomorrow (6/24/2013)
SQL Server 2014 Hekaton: Requests/Sec went up from 15k to 250k on same hardware.I will test this one with SharePoint! It’s of course the best database system they ever built.
Geoflow: Visualize data on a globe, that was amazing. So easy that the guy did it on a touchscreen with Excel 2013.
Windows Server 2012 R2: Remote File Storage with Tiering; IO went up from 7k to 125k IO/s. Deduped Storage; Vms on deduped storage boot faster because common blobs are cached.
Hyper V: Live Migration of a VM in less than 8 seconds - hopefully we see some of that features in Client Hyper V on Windows 8.1

They take it seriously when they say: “Cloud first”. Many improvements are cloud-driven. This will be great.