My journey from 15 to 500!

Right now, I have a mixed feeling - a sense of achievement and a of bit tiredness too; just counting days for the weekend (1 more to go). This week has been hectic yet rewarding as I presented in front of 500 attendees at the Women of Silicon Roundabout (WoSR) conference. It was my 3rd time at WoSR as an independent speaker and got a chance to attend the awards function too. Every time I take up a session there; it only gets better. I started at WoSR with a very small session at the beginning. It's time for me to reflect back on my journey as a presenter at WinTech events thus far. Here I am sharing my experience; with no offense to any nation or language. 

Hybrid Cloud - Linking GCP with on-premise datacenters

This week has been hectic; yet rewarding for our team as we succeeded in implementing Google hybrid cloud for a customer by linking public cloud workloads to on-premise workloads. In the interest of keeping it short, I'll split this blog into two parts (first part for the solution overview and second part for implementation details). In this blog, I'll be penning down my thoughts on the major obstructions to cloud adoption and how hybrid cloud solves it. 

How does it feel like from Inside Google?

It’s a lovely afternoon here in Warsaw. I am sitting in an empty training room in Google office; after finishing my week long training; waiting to board the flight in a couple of hours. Ooh yes, I hear you! What a waste of time sitting in an empty room on a sunny day in a historic city like Warsaw!!!!

15 mins ago I thought exactly the same and made a marvellous plan to head to the town centre for sightseeing.

Presenting at Citrix User Group, London 2018

Delighted to be taking up my first session at the Citrix User Group, London conference on legacy app migration based on my blog  on MSIX "Promise of a new world to migrants (apps)".

Title           : Promise of a new world to the migrants (apps)

Date/Time : 18th Dec @ 14:00

Duration   : 45 mins

Venue        : Societe Generale, 41 Tower Hill, London

Presenting at European Women in Technology 2018, Amsterdam

It's an honour to be invited again by the Women in Tech organizers to take up a session at European Women in Technology 2018 conference in Amsterdam.

Do you use virtualization technologies? 

If your answer is NO, then you need to rethink! From MSOffice to Snapchat, from Netflix to Uber; everything uses virtualization behind the scenes. Join my session if you want to dive into this science of illusion and see how it is affecting our day-to-day life.

Session Title   :    The Science of Illusion (Virtualization)

Seminar Zone :    Emerging Technologies

Date/Time      :     2:45PM on 29th Nov

Presenting at E2EVC, Greece

Greaing up for my second E2EVC event where I'll be taking up two joint sessions on 3rd Nov; one with Tim Mangan on "MSIX for Enterpirse" at 12:30PM and the second one with Remko Weijnen on Cloudhouse's solutions for "MSIX and Azure Migrate" at 3:15PM.

Presenting at AppManagEvent 2018, Netherlands

Looking forward to my first AppManageEvent! I'll be taking up a session on 12th Oct. 

Session Title : Get 8 years headstart on MSIX and Azure Migrate

Date, Time : 12th Oct @ 11:15 - 12:00

Venue : Mission2 Hall, Media Plaza, Jaarbeurs Utrecht

I'll be covering details on Cloudhouse's MSIX solution and Azure migrate (server migration) with some live demos. Please do join my session if these topics are of your interest. Also make sure you check the agenda (here) for other interesting sessions on MSIX and security by industry experts like Tim Mangan. 

I am looking forward to watching award winning presenters Paula J and Sami Laihoon on the stage; to get tips on improving my presentation skills :)

See you there!

Priya.

Presenting at MS Ignite on MSIX PSF

It's a big day today as I'll be joining Andrew Clinick on stage for a live demo on MSIX PSF. I'll be fixing a VB6 incompatibility issue on Win10 by using MSIX's Package Support Framework integrated with Cloudhouse's product.

Do join us for the session if you are at Ignite. Below are the details

Date/Time: 26th Sept 18, 12:30 - 1:45PM
Session: MSIX - Accelerating Windows 10 and App Deployment
Location: OCCC W314, MS Ignite, Orlando.

Looking forward to it!

Priya Saxena.

Presenting at Ignite on Azure Migrate

My first Ignite!

Here I am in Orlando, awake at 4 in the morning. I tried to go back to bed, but my body clock isn't used to US time zone yet. So, thought of publishing a blog.

Today and tomorrow I'll be taking up few joint sessions organized by Azure team along with my sales engineer Shane Doyle. I'll be demonstrating server apps migration from 2003 to 2016 using Cloudhouse's product. Apart from this, we will also be talking about issues and solutions involved in server app migration.

If interested please join us for the session. Below are the details.

Date/Time: 24th Sept 2018, 6:15 - 6:45PM
Session: Azure Migrate classroom
Location: Applications and Infrastructure quadrant.

(Repeat session)

Date/Time: 25th Sept 2018, 5:30 - 6:00PM

Session: Azure Migrate classroom

Location: Applications and Infrastructure quadrant.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Priya Saxena.

Is PSF for me?

MSIX's Package Support Framework was released yesterday. As this is an initial blog, I am penning down some points to touch base on basic questions around PSF

1) Who is PSF for?

2) Who can create PSF fixups?

3) What skills are needed for developing compatibility fixups?

4) Where is this technology likely to lead few years down the line?

I am sure many of you must be having these questions in mind. Having worked on a very similar product at Cloudhouse, I'll try to answer some of the basic questions to give you a quick start on the skills needed to try your hands at this new framework. I am sorry for disappointing those of you who were expecting a technical blog. We will dig into the tech details in subsequent posts.

As always, a disclaimer first. These are my personal views based on my experience and don't reflect the opinion held by Cloudhouse or Microsoft.

Continue reading full post here.

Priya Saxena.