Azure Weekly

Issue #36 - 25th July 2015

The big event this week was the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held in Orlando. There were a number of announcements, the biggest being the Cortana Analytics Suite. The overview site is heavy on marketing, light on technical details at the moment, but it appears to be a new offering which stitches togther many of the existing Azure services (Azure Data Factory, HDInsight, Machine Learning, PowerBI) to deliver a set of pre-configured vertical solutions.

To celebrate the Azure Batch Service reaching General Availablity last week, we at endjin have released an interesting little video, of a scale test experiement we performed to spin up a pool of 16,000 A1 Virtual Machines on Azure Batch to do 12,000 core compute hours worth of work. The original experiment lasted 45 minutes, but we've sped the video up so it only lasts 30 seconds.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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