This Week in Azure - February 15, 2016
Platform Updates
Monday
- We announced a bunch of improvements to Azure SQL Data Warehouse which include loading, monitoring, and stability
- We announced and early preview of Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools for Azure Stack
- Clinton Ho announced that the Data Management Gateway received an auto-update capability
Tuesday
- Eugene Shvets announced a public preview of Azure Search indexer for Azure Blob Storage which lets you extract textual content and blob metadata from various document types like PDFs, Office documents and many others
- Pradnya Khadapkar announced that Azure Premium storage is available in more regions: East Asia, Australia Southwest and South Central US
Wednesday
- We announced that the . NET SDK for Azure Search has reached General Availability with the package version 1.1
- Adarsh Solanki announced a price reduction for Azure Media Indexer
Thursday
- Anurag Gupta announced the new Log Analytics (OMS) resource for you Azure VMs which helps you analyze your VM logs no matter if you're running a Windows or a Linux VM
Friday
- We announced the availability of a SQL Server Express image in the Azure Gallery
- Gaurav Malhorta announced the public release of new Azure Data Factory Monitoring and Management App which improves efficiency and has a very intuitive experience
- We announced that the Lucene query syntax reached general availability with the 2015-02-28 version on the Azure Search REST API
- We announced new POP locations for the CDN service which are in India and South America
- We announced CDN Azure Resource Management support and new experiences in the Azure Portal
From Community
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- Simultaneously Start|Stop all Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines in a Resource Group from kloud
- Create Keys for an Application to Manage Azure from rgardler
- Oracle RAC on Azure from Pythina
- Understand Azure Event Hubs from BizTalk360 Blog
- DevOps Basics: Deploying Azure Resource Manager Templates with Visual Studio Team Services from CANITPRO
Customer Stories
- Organisation der Arbeitswelt Gesundheit und Soziales Aargau (Education from Switzerland) reduces IT costs nearly 53 percent
Events
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- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Azure Tour
- March 9th – AzureDay Poland
- March 30th – BUILD 2016
- April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
- September 26 – Microsoft Ignite 2016
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