Azure Weekly

Issue #53 - 21st November 2015

Future Decoded took place in London this week.

During the event, Satya announced plans to offer commercial cloud services from the UK. There was a big focus on the intelligent cloud, particular Cortana Analytics Suite and IoT Suite. Summaries of the keynotes including Satya's keynote, and a session on the future of IoT and iOT security considerations are available on the Microsoft website. There's also a write up of Day 1 and Day 2 from Harry Eagles on Technet. Videos are not up on Channel 9 at the time of writing but should be soon.

Endjin presented a session on day 1 of Future Decoded and covered "embracing disruption in financial services" with their customer Hymans Robertson; the session covered Hymans Robertson's 3 year journey to the cloud and the regulatory, risk and compliance hurdles they had to overcome.

In other Azure news this week, Microsoft and ConsenSys are partnering to offer Ethereum Blockchain as a Service on Azure, curently consisting of Ether.Camp and BlockApps. Ethereum is a a cryptocurrency platform similar to BitCoin. 

Following on from last week's announcement about the Red Hat/ Microsoft partnership, Red Hat subscriptions can now be migrated to Azure.

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets are in public preview. Scale Sets let you deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set.

There's a new Application Insights Content Pack for Power BI which includes a map showing user locations by country/region, summary statistics and time-series of their activity.

Over to the world of data, and Azure Search now has full support for creating and monitoring indexers in the Azure Search Portal. The Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool now has geospatial supportAzure SQL Database Threat Detection is now in Public Preview.

Thanks to Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) for submitting two articles this week - automatically create AD users with AD automation and OMS, and import new modules into Azure Automation.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

  • None this week.

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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