This week in Azure – March 14, 2016

Platform Updates

Tuesday

• Brian Benz announced the update to the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse which now allows you to deploy Java applications directly to Azure App Service Web Apps
• We announced that HockeyApp is now available for purchase through Visual Studio Marketplace
• We announced that Azure SQL Database Index Advisor has reached General Availability
• We announced that Azure SQL Database Query Performance reached General Availability
• We announced that Azure SQL Database Query Store has reached General Availability
• We announced that Azure Active Directory Identity Protection is in public preview
• We announced Azure Data Factory data movement in Australia regions

Wednesday

• Thomas Dohmke announced that mobile app customers will be using HockeyApp instead of Application Insights
• We announced that Azure App Service now support V2 Virtual Networks which are backed by Azure Resource Manager
• We announced that you can use Git to manage your API Management service instances

Thursday

• Tom Shinder announced that Microsoft has published 2016 Attestation of Compliance

Friday

• We announced a code-free copy wizard for Azure Data Factory

From Community

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• Provisioning a Cloudera Hadoop cluster on Azure from Anagha Khanolkar
• Azure AD Connect manual sync cycle with powershell, Start-ADSyncSyncCycle from kloud blog

Customer Stories

• WLS Lighting Systems (Discrete Manufacturing from the USA) designed the system to facilitate high-scale, IoT deployment on Microsoft  Azure.
• Bunn-O-Matic Corporation (Discrete Manufacturing from the USA) moved their services to Microsoft Azure.
• Kanoo Travel (Travel from Bahrain) turned to Azure to run its Krystal Point-Of-Sale platform in the cloud.
• Newmarket (Hospitality Solutions from the USA) decided to host its APIs in the cloud on Microsoft Azure and to manage them with Azure API Management.
• Barry University (Education from the USA) deployed the IAM Cloud Platform, powered by Microsoft Azure.

Events

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• Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
• March 30th –  BUILD 2016
• April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
• September 26 – Microsoft Ignite 2016

Tomek & Mirek