Azure Weekly

Issue #44 - 19th September 2015

Azure Media Services has been busy. This week the Media Services team announced the ability to protect video on demand and live streams with Google Widevine. Azure Media Player has been updated to accomodate Widevine protected content. The team also announced support for the Apple ProRes codec and QuickTime .mov files, and the ability to edit live streams, using Azure Media Services Explorer.

Moving on to Web Apps, this week saw the introduction of an open source Node.js SDK for Azure Mobile Apps. There were some improvements to the Web Apps area in the new portal - including the ability to get to Kudu from the Tools menu, a new Networking tile, the ability to delete an app service environment and any resources it contained, and file system storage information.

Over in the world of storage, the Azure SQL Database team announced that the elastic database client library has been open sourced and is available on GitHub. The client library is used to simplify elastic database sharding.

Azure Backup for Azure IaaS VMs has gone into general availability in all regions, with the addition of PowerShell support and improved SLA and monitoring.

On to events, and reminder that the AzureCon virtual event is taking place on 29 September. There will be keynotes from Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Bill Staples and T.K Rengarajan. On the subject of events, the videos from Ignite New Zealand at the start of September are available on Channel 9.

Finally, The Azure Machine Learning team announced a free online course - Data Science & Machine Learning Essentials. The 5 week course starts on September 24th 2015.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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