We will be meeting virtually again this month, below is the agenda.

6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration

6:30pm – 7:15pm - Donovan Brown - Principal Cloud Advocate

Digital Transformation (from on-premises to the cloud)

It has become increasingly clear that embarking on a digital transformation is imperative for companies in every industry to survive.

Digital transformations require an understanding of what is possible in the cloud. In this session, we will cover the different opportunities for moving workloads to the cloud so you can determine the best path forward. We will cover scenarios from “lift and shift” to full “cloud native” migrations so you can choose the correct option for your workloads.

7:15pm - 8pm -  Heini Ilmarinen

Adapting Big Data Architecture Patterns for Real-world Scenarios

Big data is often defined with the five V's: volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value. But what if your data does not conform to that definition? What if your data only has variety and value, velocity and variety or some other combination? Should you completely ditch all big data concepts?

What really makes us think about data in a different way compared to a classic data environment is not the most obvious of the V's - volume, but actually the rest of them. When we take the other V's into account, the way we've been taught to design and build data environments no longer seem to solve all the problems. The usual suspects - relational databases, extract-transform-load patterns and data warehouses - don't quite work when we go beyond just considering the data volume.

In this session, we will look at the big data architecture on Azure and see how we can adapt it to solve the problems with our data. We will dig into how to combine the different Azure data services to create the architecture that you need, for the volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value of your data, today.

8pm – 8:30pm Round the table, chat, networking, virtual drinks

8:30pm - Quiz