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good
morning I'm excited to be here this
morning um and to uh guide you through
what I see as a exciting development so
I'm here to introduce you or better yet
let
Cortana introduce you to the uh Galaxy's
largest playground for blockchain
developers so Microsoft
Azure is a
hyperscale uh Global Cloud platform that
has the fundamentals to provide you for
infra infrastructure services like
virtual machines and storage and
networking but so much more more uh
Microsoft when began the cloud Journey
we actually
overshock uh the marketplace and
developed and focused our attention on
platform as a service essentially
building a fabric of
apis uh that don't have any dependence
on particular VMS and instances rather
you just declaratively program what it
is your
intentions uh so we have a a huge
portfolio of these platform services
that you see here now why am i showing
you these platform Services instead of
focusing on
VMS uh platform services are the future
uh worrying about your VMS and uh you
know what their sizes are and their
capabilities are really a thing of the
past uh we are rather getting to a point
where you're declaring uh in software
what your hardware dependencies and
needs are so uh with this uh for
blockchain developers I'm just going to
point out a couple of these this is a an
ey chart slide and believe me this ey
chart slide has been condensed and
simpli if it's a much a larger ecosystem
but you can see some of these services
like notification hubs machine learning
uh which we have uh rebranded into
Cortana analytics um brings machine
learning to the masses and makes it um
achievable uh and surfacing uh machine
learning capabilities for prediction
markets uh around the world the event
hubs the key Vault uh so crypto is very
important we offer a key VA that has a a
unique service we think will be of
interest in this community and then
active director where we talk a little
bit about uh identity and Federated
identity how do we first establish
identity uh and how do we allow you to
have composite identities uh that is a
very important thing and when I talk
about Azure I'm going to talk about size
for a minute so uh this is but one
building this building is very large I
don't know if you can see the scale here
oops well I I can't pinch in Zoom
because it's uh projecting but anyway
you can see the cars over there this is
one building in a typical data center in
Azure each data center the new data
centers have four of these buildings
connected at each location we are adding
a million cores uh that's our run rate
uh and a very we would every time I say
it's a million cores a year we we up
that so we're growing uh very very
rapidly in this space now again this
this is just one data center uh one
quarter of a data center now these Data
Centers do span the globe so when we
talk about what's there we are talking
about hyperscale Global Network um the
ones in green that are highlighted those
are coming online later this year but
you can see we basically covered uh
cover the world um and where we find a
need particularly if it's regulatory um
we and there's a a demand from our
customers will plop a data center in
there uh we have data centers in
China um we have data centers coming
into Canada uh this year um now Azure is
an open Cloud it is the most open Cloud
I would argue um we are not the old
Microsoft this is the new
Microsoft uh we Embrace open source uh
we actually contribute a great deal to
some of the most uh Innovative uh
features that are coming with Cloud I'm
going to talk about ones that I think
are very strategic to what we're trying
to do here um with ethereum and our
partners so all of this is available to
you in Azure so you pick and choose the
flavor of os that you want or forget
about the OS pick and choose the
database the platform the
blockchain um the UI whatever whatever
your Dev tools are will support
it so uh again this is hyperscale
Enterprise cloud and before the red hat
announcement which was last week I
believe uh we announced Red Hat
availability uh for our Enterprise
customers and really anybody one in four
of our VMS were Linux uh we expect that
to about double to be about half of our
VMS will be Linux based uh running in
the cloud now I would be remiss in
talking about Regulatory Compliance uh
for those of you that Target Enterprise
customers they do tend to care about
this stuff we are the most compliant
Cloud uh and have the largest portfolio
of certifications in the world uh none
of our competitors can attest to this
there's one up put a question mark about
the Safe Harbor um we'll see what
happens there uh but uh I I guarantee
you if there is a certification to be
had we will get it um if there is a
regulatory hurdle to jump we will jump
it um there will not be a blocker uh for
Azure moving forward
so what is blockchain as a service what
are we intending to do so the first
thing we're doing at uh the Enterprise
level so we're targeting primarily our
Enterprise customers but really this
benefits the entire development
Community uh we are creating a set of
services that allow our customers to
fail fast most of our Enterprise
customers cannot afford to take the jump
particularly into ethereum or blockchain
and use a parachute when they jump out
the plane they need to fall fast and hit
the ground fast if they're going to fail
fail early uh and then get back up and
try it again now how do they do that
with it infrastructures and budgets and
constraints it's expensive they're too
slow we want our customers and our
developers to be able to experiment
rapidly at low cost to spin up resources
on demand uh and experiment by mixing
and matching different Frameworks
different platforms different tools to
create the most awesome ethereum based
applications on the
planet so uh we talk about creating
private ethereum environments uh how do
they do that rapidly uh supporting the
public network going back and forth uh
and eventually you know we're creating
that platform to evolve as this
technology evolves uh to be able to make
sure that the services that you need are
there so the biggest hurdle I always
hear from customers is getting started
and I remember July 31st when Frontier
came out I spent the better part of two
days sitting in my office trying to get
the damn thing up and running uh and I
unfortunately I was using Windows which
is even worse once I switched to auntu I
was a little bit more successful uh but
uh we'll try to fix that by the way U
uh um but anyway uh so we want to make
it very easy so oneclick deployment now
what does that mean so in Azure if you
have not seen Azure I'm going to show it
to you in a moment so the azer has a
portal that our developers and it Pros
go to to create and manage resources
that are going to be used in the cloud
so we are going to be introducing um
this is what I call a soft launch
because this is a developer audience you
guys will forgive me if I show you
GitHub and things like that if I did a
hard launch it would be all polished and
marketing and we wouldn't show you any
uh I would not definitely show you uh an
SSH shell uh or anything anything like
that um but here we're going to show
what the vision is and then I'm actually
show you what it looks like at this
moment but this blockchain category will
be up here now you'll notice we have
some pre-populated uh items up here and
we're talking about the blockchain as a
service particularly the ethereum
blockchain as a service or
Fass um provided by consensus so
consensus is launching today uh two uh
basic packages uh in this Marketplace uh
the marketplace will consist of a uh PR
private loop back if you will private
blockchain environment based off of the
go
implementation with one click you will
install a private Network that has a pre
uh fueled ether account so you can go
ahead and Our intention is to have
someone a newbie and these Enterprise
customers to with one click be able to
deploy and get up uh and stand up an
ethereum environment follow a simple
script and write their first smart
contract application within 20
minutes if you told me that on the 31st
i' probably come to tears because of the
amount of time I spent on learning how
not to do it uh so we want to make it
much easier now we en we envision our
customers picking from this menu and
this menu when it says blockchains we
kept it unique because we want services
that um apply even if you're not
providing a full blockchain stack if
you're not doing this the C++
implementation or the go implementation
or the Java implementation but you have
a service that you have written that is
specifically designed to work with
ethereum
networks you should publish it here to
make it
discoverable um so we're we're creating
this category and you can see you could
go through any one of these and I'm
going to walk you through what it looks
like but if you wanted to have a private
blockchain for instance had six nodes
one node in the east coast of the United
States one in Europe one in China One in
Japan and one in Singapore you could do
that all within filling out one Wizard
and click deploy and you'd be up and
running within minutes that's amazingly
powerful so let me show you what this
looks like really quickly um the
marketplace real uh fast if I can come
up and let me not have it extend to my
screen so this is what the Azure portal
looks like I'm using the Batman theme uh
it does come in
black um so I'm going to come in here
and I'm just going to say new and I'm
going to create a new
uh let's say auntu just you know because
that's what I've been using lately I'm
going to create here and show you what
this looks like now I'm not going to go
through this process because I'm showing
you creating a VM for auntu that's not
exciting I'm going to let uh I'm going
to show you what it's going to look like
to create uh one of these blockchain
assets but I did want to point out a
couple of things let me uh pick a
different region and just show you how
badass a machine I can create let's say
I'm you know really going to be
aggressive with this and I want to say
create
a let's see how much money I want to
spend there we go this looks good 32
cores and 448 gigs that looks good to
me so you can see I can pick and choose
from a menu of these type of resources
and and uh go ahead and just type in a
host
name that's not going to work
that's not going to work either anyway
there's a I can't use uh spaces there's
a space in
there but anyway I can configure this
and say go and then we'll go out and
provision this and create it now for the
quick starts you're going to see when I
told you that um for the uh ethereum
blockchains we have not stood up the
blockchain category yet that will happen
probably by the end of the month uh but
what you do see this is the Azure
Marketplace I'm just going to t uh touch
on this blockchain Strat which are
actually going to show you next and I'm
going to show you the oneclick deploy of
what it looks like um for deploying
blockchain uh so I'm going to create
this block block app Strat image now
this is based on a boont tu and it has
the full stack here we got a lot of
azure logins so I'm going to log in
really quick and it's going to fire up
yeah yeah comeing as
me and it's going to fire up right into
uh the template for me to fill in my
parameters for my new blockchain uh
environment that I want to spin up so as
we come up and this is live I'm not
chewing a video or anything here I'm
going to name this you he
whoops let me go
back so I'm going to type in some stuff
here I'm going to go on the dev Network
and put in a password and then say okay
and it'll spin up and create it now I'm
going let these guys actually do
actually going to do it live let me
switch back to my slides really quick
and give you the big picture
so let's talk about the the technology I
think it's going to change the way we
deliver these types of services and
deliver this value the first is uh is
containers so namely Docker and windows
containers they're basically um
interchangeable at this point the amount
of work we've done with Docker to make
um container technology ubiquitous
across Linux and windows distributions
uh and be uh have a single management
platform and deployment platform working
with the Apache Foundation we have
created an environment where you can mix
and match VMS and containers to get the
right environment for you at the drop of
a hat and be able to change things
almost
instantly uh and deploy in scale uh
based on your needs and demand and
remember this is azure and if you're not
familiar with Azure Azure is a
subscription service you only pay for
what you use it's not like getting a
cable TV package or getting a cell phone
package you're only going to pay for
what you use so when we have these
containers um so um a container if
you're not familiar with Docker it runs
within a VM or it can run on the
hypervisor itself we are creating an
image repository and these image
repositories are going to have
containers that have prepackaged like
say um a stack for ethereum uh a
particular stack and you can have 10 20
30 different types of stacks that you
can mix and match select those from the
image repository and then spin up on
your platform um the the stack that
you're that you're wanting to build upon
now where this leads us is to this
broader vision for blockchains so the
ethereum blockchain is a service Vision
with containers and the ability to
dynamically spin up these type of
resources we envision an era of
microservices
so microservices uh we are really
decomposing is U let me go back to the
talks yesterday the capability so that
you can quickly compose
Solutions um and be able to look at
these different capabilities in this
service fabric um and be able to begin
developing blockchainbased
applications consuming and exposing
these other additional value added
services such that the blockchain um
develop in the ecosystem becomes a much
richer environment for our Enterprise
customers so my question for you is uh
as you look at this type of
environment uh and noting that in the
back if you grab one of those big
posters it has a $200 certificate it's
like winning the lottery you get that
big check that actually you can't do
anything with you actually don't have to
take the poster but everyone that's in
attendance will have the ability to get
a $200 credit for Azure um to be able to
evaluate this and uh start building your
apps and looking at building ethereum
apis blockchain apis crypto Services
whatever you can dream of uh to build on
this platform and my question to you is
what will you add thank you
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