Azure Weekly

Issue #35 - 18th July 2015

The big news this week is that Azure Batch is now generally available; with an exciting alteration to the pricing plan - the resource management and job scheduling capabilities will be free, you will just pay the charges for compute, storage and networking resources that your application uses.

We at endjin are particularly enamoured with Azure Batch; we’re currently helping a number of customers adopt it, and we were fortunate enough to have two members of the Batch team spend the day at endjin HQ a few weeks ago where we showed them a proof of concept counterfeit image detection application we have built on top of it. It’s a great service for anyone who has computational workloads that they need to run at scale. Look out for a series of blog posts about Azure Batch on the endjin blogs soon!

In other news Power BI General Availability is scheduled for July 24th. If you combine Azure Data Factory, Azure Batch and Power BI – you have an incredibly powerful and compelling data production pipeline, computational engine and reporting platform.

A public preview of the Azure Data Catalog was also announced this week by the Machine Learning Team; the Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise metadata portal for the self-service discovery of data sources and will be available from the 13th of July.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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