Azure Weekly
Issue #27 - 23rd May 2015
After last week's hybrid and networking announcements, this week Azure Media Services is in the spotlight, with the launch of 'Hyperlapse', which provides video stabilisation and time lapsing for long-form content.
Alex Simons & Ariel Gordon unveil Azure AD Join - a new feature in Windows 10 that allows you to join your devices to Azure Active Directory rather than a traditional "on prem" AD. Very exciting news for "born in the cloud" companies (like endjin) who don't want the burden of tranditional infrastructure.
Azure also announced new investment in undersea cables between North America, Ireland and the UK and North America and Asia.
Thanks to Jan Egil Ring (@janegilring) for submitting a story on how to manage your public DNS zones with Azure DNS.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Docker blog, Adam Herzog writes about 5 Reasons Why You Should Attend DockerCon 2015 and DockerCon 2015 Hackathon: Ready to Hack Docker
Also on the Docker blog, John Willis writes part 9 of his Docker tutorial, Docker Machine
On the Microsoft Openness site, Jose Miguel Parrella writes part 1 of a series on Chef in Azure
Stuart Preston (@stuartpreston) writes about a Microsoft Azure and Chef taster day taking place at BCS in London 29th May 2015
Yung Chou (@yungchou) shares a lab on application Deployment as a Service, A Sample Implementation of with Microsoft Azure PowerShell
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Nick Harris writes about Azure preview portal support for Cloud Services
Also on the Azure blog, Sarvashrestha Paliwal describes how Microsoft Azure helps transform the Indian Gaming Industry
On C# Corner, Talha Bin Afzal describes how to secure PhpMyAdmin in a Linux Azure Virtual Machine
On the Azure Zone blog, the Hanu Azure Team writes 'what Can I Do in the Azure Preview Portal' and discusses securing your Data on the Virtual Machines in your Azure Environment
On the Tallan blog, Dan Field delves into enabling RDP on a VM Uploaded to Azure
On TechNet, Jh Lee At MS Korea shares an AWS vs. Azure Compute Performance Comparison
On Computing.co.uk, Graeme Burton writes 'Microsoft connects Azure cloud data centres with global fibre network'
On the Azure Zone blog, Hanu Azure Team shares a video discussion about moving Oracle Workloads to Microsoft Azure
Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) summarizes the Ignite announcements relating to Azure in What's new at Ignite - Nano Server, Containers, Azure Stack, OMS, ATA and so on
Fabien Dibot (@fdibot) describes the desired State Configuration Azure Extension
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) walks through understanding DS series temporary disk size, answers a question about mixing Azure storage types in a VM, writes about using Premium Storage with a VM, writes about automatic VM creation when creating VM from preview Azure portal and explains how to understand TCO for Azure vs on-premises
This week's Azure podcast covers some interesting statistics about Azure
🌐 Networking
On PowerShell Magazine, Jan Egil Ring (@janegilring) explains how to manage your public DNS zones with Azure DNS
Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) writes 'Taking Azure DNS preview for a spin'
💡 Internet of Things
On the Azure blog, Microsoft Azure there's a case study about how Sleeve Music uses the Azure App Service
Also on the Azure blog, Nir Mashkowski describes how to use Visual Studio Code with the Azure App Service
Cory Fowler (@cfowlermsft) describes updating to WordPress 4.2.2 on Azure App Service
On the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Brian Benz shares recent updates to the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse, including support for Maven projects
⚙️ Data and Analytics
- On MSDN, Shanyu Zhao talks about performance Tuning for HDInsight Storm and Microsoft Azure EventHubs
On the Perficient blog, Stan Tarnovskiy shares a difference between Microsoft Azure SQL Database and on-premises SQL Server - integrated authentication
On InfoQ, Sergio De Simone provides a summary of Project Oxford, Microsoft's REST APIs for feature face recognition, speech processing, and other machine learning algorithms
Jesus Aguilar (@giventocode) writes about hacking NYC restaurant ratings using Azure Machine Learning.
On the Revolution Analytics blog, Joseph Rickert writes about using Azure as an R data source, Part 1
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Abhishek A. Hemrajani shares the Azure Site Recovery sessions from Ignite
Radu Vunvulea discusses updating content of messages from Azure Queues and how to optimize calls to Azure Table storage
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes about Using Azure Premium Storage
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Adarsh Solanki announces Hyperlapse for Azure Media Services, which provides video stabilization and time lapsing to speed up content into consumable clips
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
On the PluralSight blog, Mary Branscombe delves into Microsoft Azure Stack: The new tool for private clouds
On Channel 9, Chris Caldwell and Keith Mayer continue a series on Building a hybrid cloud, presenting part 2 of Protecting Data with Encryption
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) experiments with combining Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replication
On Windows IT Pro, Cheryl J. Ajluni writes about the Platform Vision & Strategy (4 of 7): Storage Overview Ignite session, which focused on Microsoft SDS and Microsoft Azure Stack
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
On MSDN, Bo Song shares a code sample for requesting a token from Azure ACS via the OAuth v2 Protocol