Cale, Russell and Sujit break down the Azure Sphere offering from Microsoft and what it means for the future of IoT development. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode260.mp3 Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/f4130c2bbc/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sphere/   Other updates: SQL Data Warehouse integration with Informatica iPaaS on Azure Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) on Azure is now generally available, enabling an intelligent discovery-driven approach to migrate legacy data warehouse workloads to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. IICS on Azure optimizes multi-cloud, hybrid environments with a streamlined experience for Azure customers, allowing them to launch IICS with a single click, directly from the Azure portal. Two key use cases enabled by IICS on Azure are data integration with prebuilt mappings and data accelerator for simplified migration to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. From Virtual Network Service Endpoints for serverless messaging and big data https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/virtual-network-service-endpoints-for-serverless-messaging-and-big-data/ Virtual Networks and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus are now generally available. This feature adds to the security and control you have over your cloud environments. Take advantage of the Azure backbone network to secure access to your premium Azure Service Bus namespaces and standard and dedicated Azure Event Hubs offerings on all public regions.  Anatomy of a secured MCU https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/anatomy-of-a-secured-mcu/ Azure.Source - Volume 63 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-63/ Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 28 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-marketplace-new-offers-volume-28/   https://www.seeedstudio.com/Azure-Sphere-MT3620-Development-Kit-US-Version-p-3052.html