WINDOWS AZURE <3 JOOMLA!

Peter LaudatiTechnology Evangelist, Microsoft

peterlau@microsoft.comhttp://www.peterlaudati.com

@jrzyshr

T I P S & T O O L S Y O U C A N U S E …

Joomla! on Windows is Easy!

Joomla! in the cloud with Windows Azure is even EASIER!

And if you’re still skeptical, stick to your Linux stack…

And if you’re still skeptical, stick to your Linux stack…

in Windows Azure!

What?! You said, “Joomla! On Windows?!”

Really?!

History

Joomla! Is Built on PHP

History

PHP Runs on Windows

For over a decade!

History

PHP Runs WELL on Windows

For about ~5+ years now

Trivia time…

Who knows that Microsoft has an Open Source Technologies Group?

MS Open Technologieshttp://msopentech.com

Goals“MS Open Tech is focused on

providing our customers with even greater choice and opportunity to bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies together in heterogeneous environments, because we’re convinced that openness is good for our customers, good for the community and good for our business.”

-Jean Paoli – President MS Open Tech

Anyway, back to PHP on Windows!

FastCGI for IIS brings stability, Scalability and Performance toPHP on Windows

OpCode, File, and Object Caching!

WinCache for PHPEnables your PHP apps (including Joomla!) to speed up!

SQL Server Driver for PHP

The SQL Serverteam stepped up to address the gap and provided a native code extension.

Next, you’ll tell me you’re participating in PHP development…

Participationin active development

with the

community developing

PHP

In what way?

PHP 5.3Is the most significant update to PHP on Windows.

Give me some more concrete! All libraries updated to latest versions (in some

cases newer versions that used on Linux) Re-Wrote the build system from scratch Top PHP Windows community programmer

working for Microsoft Build with VS 2008 Available in 32 and 64 bit version Created windows.php.net 99% of all POSIX calls changed to native Windows

calls

Okay, history lesson complete!

Get Joomla! On Windows!http://www.microsoft.com/web/joomla

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

http://microsoft.com/web

Enter the matrix…Download, Create, & Publish: WebMatrix

WebMatrix App Gallery

IIS SEO Toolkit

SEO Reports on YOUR Joomla! Site

Let’s check it out!

What about this cloud stuff?

What is the cloud?An approach to computing where someone else does all the hard work of maintaining your server stuff

What is Windows Azure?

Windows Azure isa place to run your

applications.

Or store your data.

Or both.

And a LOT of other stuff too…

CDN, Distributed Caching, Azure Active Directory, Media Services, Mobile Services, Service Bus,

Notification Hubs, Traffic Manager, etc…

How does Joomla! fit in here?

Cloud services Web sites Virtual machinesMore Control Focus on the

App

3 Choices

Let’s check it out!

A Few Words on IE…

IE6I feel the same way you do!

Taken @ Drupal Camp Atlanta

Upgrade to IE11 on 18th of October!

http://Modern.IE

Windows Live Writer

Thank You!Peter Laudati - Microsofthttp://www.peterlaudati.com@jrzyshr