Hands-on Windows Azure Workshop in New York City on June 19th Sponsored by NetCom Learning

NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NetCom Learning is extending an invitation to attend a one day Hands-on Windows Azure Workshop to be held at Microsoft's New York City office. The presentation will be provided by Gil Isaacs, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist. The workshop will take place at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, on the 6^th floor on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. The workshop will be hosted by Gil Isaacs, Architect Evangelist, and member of Microsoft's Partner Evangelism Team.

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IT professionals, project leaders, company directors, and senior management will be interested in attending this workshop which will provide an overview of Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, a cloud infrastructure, and how it can help companies to create, deploy, and manage applications through a network of datacenters. The platform supports a variety of programming languages, and tools. Using Windows Azure, IT professionals and network administrators can build multiple applications using Microsoft datacenters. In the Cloud computing environment Windows Azure can be used to create or extend enterprise applications.

"This one day complimentary workshop is the perfect opportunity for organizations to truly understand the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Azure platform," said Russell Sarder, CEO of NetCom Learning. "Being able to experience the platform in a hands on environment can help attendees see the potential of using Windows Azure to move toward a cloud based infrastructure model that is transformational," said Sarder.

The agenda for the workshop is as follows:

08:30 am - Registration and Breakfast Coffee
09:00 am - Windows Azure Platform Detailed Overview
10:30 am - Break
10:45 am - Windows Azure Compute Services Lab
12:15 pm - Lunch
01:15 pm - Windows Azure Storage Lab
02:15 pm - Break
02:30 pm - SQL Server on Windows Azure Lab
03:30 pm - Break
03:45 pm - Windows Azure Value Add Services Lab(s)

In order to participate in the lab exercises, attendees must provide their own laptop with a Remote Desktop connection capability and it must have Windows PC, Windows XP SP3 or better and be able to support Remote Desktop.

The featured speaker for the workshop is Olaf Cames, a Microsoft Certified Trainer with more 27 years of experience as developer and an overall enterprise experience of 21 years. Olaf holds numerous Microsoft certifications including MCTS, MCITP, MCPD, MCSD, MCAD, and more.

Why take technical training with NetCom Learning?
NetCom Learning was chosen as Microsoft's Learning Partner of the Year from a pool of 1400 training companies. In 2013, Microsoft selected NetCom Learning as the top U.S. finalist for Learning Partner of the Year as the best and brightest companies in the Microsoft Ecosystem. NetCom Learning has been a learning partner for Microsoft since 1999. NetCom Learning offers training courses in more than 20 Microsoft technologies and products leading to Microsoft IT certifications. These courses have provided information technology professionals with the knowledge and professional certifications they needed to do their jobs, find new jobs and take on new responsibilities.  Complimentary webinars and seminars on Microsoft technologies are held on a regular basis providing complimentary learning opportunities given by top educators.

The leader in IT training provides the most innovative learning solutions including standard, boot camp, accelerated and customized training, and these offerings are available at NetCom Learning's three convenient locations, or anywhere in the world via Live Online or onsite training. NetCom Learning is the most trusted name in both business and IT training and offers top notch instructors with an average of 16 years of experience and vendor approved coursework offering certification preparation for a variety of vendor certifications. NetCom Learning instructors routinely achieve high ratings from their students with an average instructor evaluation of 8.6 out of nine, one of the highest instructor evaluations in the industry. The high quality of training has resulted in over 1,700 testimonials and a 96% customer satisfaction rate with those customers indicating they would recommend NetCom Learning to others. Recently NetCom Learning earned an NPS score of 65 which is much higher than average. NPS scores are used to gauge customer satisfaction and loyalty, a score of 50 is considered to be excellent.

As spaces are limited attendees are required to pre-register for the workshop. To pre-register go to http://mkt.netcomlearning.com/AzureWorkshop.html or call NetCom Learning at 212 245-2100.

About NetCom Learning
NetCom Learning is an innovative leader in IT, business and executive training to companies, individuals, and government agencies. Since its inception in 1998, NetCom Learning has trained over 80 percent of the Fortune 100, serviced over 45,500 business customers, and advanced the skills of more than 71,000 professionals through hands-on, expert-led training, with the organization maintaining an average instructor evaluation score of 8.6 out of 9. NetCom Learning was recognized by Microsoft Corporation as its Worldwide Training Partner of the Year and named thrice to Inc. Magazine's list of fastest growing private companies in America. The organization was also recently named to the 2012 Top 20 IT Training Company by TrainingIndustry.com and was named "Company of the Year" by the American Business Awards.

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