This week in Azure - January 18, 2016
A very busy week for Azure which always makes us happy :)
Platform updates
Monday
- Azure Mobile Engagement has partnered with VMob to give you even more possibilities in retail engagement
- Abhishek A. Hemrajani has announced General Availability of Azure Site Recovery enhanced VMware to Azure functionality that help you protect, replicate your VMware VMs and physical servers to Azure
- Azure DevTest Lab team has announced January updates that include new capabilities for artifacts, ARM template support and a possibility to create more powerful VMs using Azure DevTest Lab
- Pavithra Thiruvengadam announced that the Azure Operational Insights now supports Azure RemoteApp (ARA) which can help monitor you ARA VMs
Wednesday
- Classic Network Security Groups (NSG) can now be managed in the Azure Portal
- Daria Grigoriu has announced the General Availability of Zend Z-Ray on Azure App Service which is an excellent solution for gaining insights into your PHP app
- The Azure Search Team announced that the Lucene query syntax is fully supported in Azure Search
Thursday
- Nicole Herskowitz has announced a price reduction for Dv2 Virtual Machines which will take effect in early February
- Perry Skountrianos announced that Shared Access Signature (SAS) had been added for Azure Storage Tables and Queues
- Joe Levy announced the release of Azure Automation PowerShell ISE add-on that allows you to interact with Azure Automation right from within your favorite tool
- Cristy Gonzalez shared information about new features of Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
- Azure Desired State Configuration has reached General Availability
- Azure Premium Storage is Generally Available in the South Central US region
- Azure RemoteApp team announced two new Azure RemoteApp Premium plans and a special price reduction for people who have existing RDS CALs with Software Assurance or EMS licenses
- SQL Database Index Advisor has reached General Availability
- Microsoft Operations Management Suite alert notification and remediation moved into public preview
- Azure Role-Based Access Control with custom roles has reached General Availability
- A self-service subscription transfer has been made globally available so you can transfer your subscription to a different account
- New ways for purchasing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication have been announced
Friday
- Kim Spilker announced a free ebook about Enterprise Cloud Strategy
From Community
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- How Linux VMs are consuming entropy provided by Hyper-V in Azure? from Linux on Azure blog
- Easy Debugging of PowerShell DSC for Azure Virtual Machines from cloud blog
- An Azure Disk Encryption forum has been launched on MSDN
- Create a Docker Swarm cluster using Azure Container Service from Julien Corioland
- How to Migrate from On-Premises to Azure SQL Database from Pythian blog
- Azure Storage Options and Costs from A to Z from Cloudyn Blog
Customer Stories
- Towers Watson (Professional Services from the USA) shared their experience of running 100,000 cores in Azure
- Gibsons (Process Mfg ＆ Resources Retail and Consumer Goods from Canada) will eliminate its seven data centers
- E-Create (Education from Brazil) found Microsoft Azure is an ideal open source platform for e-learning projects
- NAV Canada (Civil Air Navigation Services Provider from Canada) relies on Azure to help keep an eye on every flight
- Al-Tijari Financial Brokerage (Banking ＆ Capital Markets from Kuwait) made the transition to Azure Backup
- iQ Payments (Logistics from Finland) deploys advanced cloud-based PayiQ mobile ticketing and payment solution for City of Turku
- The Dow Chemical Company (Process Mfg ＆ Resources from the USA) moved several datacenter workloads to Microsoft Azure
- Jawabkoms (Professional Services from the USA) made their website one of the top 100 most visited websites in the Arab world
- HAKOM (Government from Croatia) implemented a tariff estimation application on Azure
- HCL (Enterpriese fromIndia) nearly doubles annual workplace cloud services revenue
- Impendle Municipality (Health from South Africa) implemented an Azure Site Recovery solution
- COVVE Visual Networks (Professional Services from Cyprus) created Cypriot software using Microsoft cloud and Open Source synergy
Events
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- Multiple dates and places - Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
- March 30 - BUILD 2016
- April 16th - Global Azure Bootcamp
Tomek & Mirek