Azure Weekly
Issue #17 - 21st March 2015
Yet another action-packed week in the world of Azure!
On Monday, the developers of London were treated to a visit by Scott Guthrie, who gave an impressive end-to-end tour of the Azure Platform covering all the major features & services in 3 hours. The event was arranged by the UK Azure User Group.
This week also saw the SQLBits conference in London, which contained a number of Azure related sessions, mainly focusing on Power BI.
endjin were at both events - distributing fliers about the free Azure Technology Guidance posters we released last week.
The big Azure announcements of the week were the release of new A10 & A11 VMs, which offer the raw compute power of the A8 & A9 VMs, but does not include the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology for maximum efficiency of parallel MPI applications, thus enabling the bigger VMs to be available at a lower price.
DocumentDB & Azure Search have moved to general availability.
Finally a special thanks to Scott Guthrie - who tweeted about the Azure Weekly Newsletter and increased the number of our subscribers by 30%!
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Kim Spilker writes about the free ebook Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation
- On TechNet, Daniele Muscetta (@dani3l3) blogs about collecting text log files to Azure Operational Insights using System Center Operations Manager
On Code Project, Graham Smith writes about Conntinuous Delivery to Azure with TFS
On Channel 9, David Tesar shows how Docker Machine can deploy to Azure
On the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Ross Gardler discusses Salt: How and Where You Host is up to You
On TechNet, Charles Allen explains how to manage VM Servers in the Azure IaaS space with ConfigMgr 2012
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Kenaz Kwa (@kenazkwa) writes about new A10/A11 Azure Compute Sizes
On the Azure blog, Karthika Muthuramu announces the Linux and OpenSource Computing Page
On the WindowsITPro site, John Savill explains how to run VMware VMs in Azure
On TechNet, SQL Server Team describes how to Automate SQL: Backup and Patching Support in Existing SQL Server Virtual Machines
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht provides an introduction to Automating Deployment of SQL Server in Azure IaaS Virtual Machines
Yung Chou (@yungchou) delves into the final part of his Microsoft Azure 101: Cloud Service and Virtual Machine Essentials
🌐 Networking
On the WindowsITPro site, John Savill explains how to resolve Recreated Azure Gateway not Connecting issues
💡 Internet of Things
On the Microsoft Openness site, the Openness Team covers the new partnership between libelium and Microsoft Azure around IoT integration
On the Just Azure blog, Stuart Leeks describes how to Safeguard Your API in the second of his posts on API Management
Ian Philpot describes the Case of Azure Websites and Continuous Deployment
⚙️ Data and Analytics
On the SQL Server Pro site, Deb Donston-Miller delves into the Microsoft Announcement of the general availability of DocumentDB and Azure Search
On the Azure blog, John Macintyre, Principal Director SQL- DocumentDB, announces that DocumentDB is moving to general availability
- On MSDN, Kirk Evans (@kaevans) covers Indexing Azure SQL Database with Azure Search
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Liam Cavanagh provide an Azure Search 101: Getting started with Azure Search
On the Azure blog, Pablo Castro announces that Azure Search is now Generally Available and provides some examples of customers already using the service
On the Microsoft Openness site, Openness Team shares some resources for deploying HDInsight on Hadoop 2.6 and also resources for deploying Apache Storm on HDInsight
Also on the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Olivier Bloch writes about predictive monitoring and control at SLAC with Machine Learning and ConnectTheDots.io
Episode 67 of the Azure podcast focuses on Redis Cache while Ugo Lattanzi (@imperugo) writes all you need to know about Redis
📦 Storage
On the Just Azure blog, Robin Shahan explored Blob Leases in part 8 in his series on Azure Storage
Yung Chou (@yungchou) continues his Microsoft Azure 101 by looking at Storage Account Essentials
On the Azure blog, Karl Rautenstrauch announces the launch of the Azure Site Recovery Live Demo series
On the WindowsITPro site, John Savill writes about poolable Entitlements with Azure Site Recovery
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Julianne Carroll writes about next Generation Sports Network launches global sports streaming, powered by Azure Media Services
Mingfei Yan (@mingfeiy), Program Manager - Azure Media Services, explains how to debug for AES encrypted stream in Azure Media Services and demonstrates how to make Token authorized AES encrypted HLS stream working in Safari
On the Azure blog, Vibhor Kapoor, Director of Azure Product Marketing, describes how Microsoft Azure is enabling business transformation with updated search and NoSQL data services, encoders for Media Services and more
- On the PaaS Mag site, Anil Murching describes how to Use Premium Encoding in Azure Media Services
On the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Eric Mitt describes using Dash.js within Cordova apps to Stream content from Azure Media services
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
On Channel 9, in episode 169 of the Cloud Cover Show, Haishi Bai and Chris Risner talks about Azure Key Vault with Sumedh Barde