Name : Parveen Patel
Designation : Principal Development Lead
Company Name : Microsoft
Topic Name: SDN in the Public Cloud: Windows Azure Perspective
Abstract:
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud platform available to general public for the last three years. It has over 100,000 customers and has been growing rapidly. Azure networking builds and operates several SDN services – virtual networking, load balancing and network management. In this talk we briefly describe the architecture of these services and some lessons learnt from their operation in Windows Azure.
Bio:
Parveen Patel is a Principal Development Lead in the Windows Azure Networking team at Microsoft. Parveen currently leads the design and development of Layer-4 load balancer and network automation services. Previously, Parveen worked in the Networking Research Group at MSR, where he worked on data center networking, data center TCP, enterprise network monitoring and load balancing. Prior to joining research, he worked in the Windows Core OS group. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Mathematics with a B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. Parveen is looking to hire people for an exciting new project for L4-L7 network services.