Azure Weekly

Issue #86 - 31st July 2016

Following on from the Cloud Platform Comparison poster we announced last week, we also have a companion Cloud Migration Poster. Many organisations struggle with the complexities of evaluating & executing different cloud migration strategies; our process looks at: drivers (business strategy, organisational readiness, stakeholders), constraints (risk & compliance, identity & security, data sovereignty, workload performance & scale, network, business value, and budget), enterprise architecture, solution architecture, service architecture, And how these all feed into the delivery plan which drives the service implementation, organisational change and legacy integration.

It also provides a set of Key Performance Indicators that can be used to measure the progress of the migration process, and contains a handy reference of Azure services. It's available for free under a Creative Commons license. We'd love to hear any feedback you have on this and any of our other posters.

On the endjin blog, James Broome covers Querying the VSTS Work Items API directly from Power BI.

Dinesh Murthy announces Azure Storage Node.js GA and Francis Yu shares a Microsoft Azure Storage Service version removal update.

Karan Batta reveals the Big Compute Product Team will be at Siggraph 2016, while Rakefet Galazan looks at Unified proactive diagnostics in Application Insights.

Finally Sunitha Muthukrishna announces that the EpiServer CMS is now in the Azure Marketplace, and Sarah Fender unveils that Azure Security Center is now generally available and proven to improve security.