Virtual Machines at Hyper-Scale

Speaker:  Marcus Fontoura, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a worldwide network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. In this talk I’ll give an overview of Microsoft Azure’s architecture and highlight some of the research challenges in cloud computing.

Bio: Marcus is currently an architect for Microsoft Azure. Prior to Microsoft, he was as at Google (2011-2013), Yahoo! Research (2005-2010), and IBM Research (2000-2005), where he worked on several projects in the areas of Web Search, Advertising, and Databases. You can find more information about him at fontoura.org.

For more information, contact Prof. Torsten Suel.