We are fortunate to have Charles Joy on the show who is a Senior PM from the Azure Stack team and he gives us the low-down on the product and the exciting scenarios that it enables. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode93.mp3 http://aka.ms/AzureStack http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/dsc-extension-azure-automation-pullserver/   Other updates:   AzureCon - September 29th https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/   SIGCOMM keynote by Albert Greenberg http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/19/microsoft-showcases-software-defined-networking-innovation-at-sigcomm-v2   Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis Network-Aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Jobs: Plan When You Can Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics Silo: Predictable Message Latency in the Cloud Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at Scale Packet-Level Telemetry in Large Datacenter Networks Enabling End-Host Network Functions Congestion Control for Large-Scale RDMA deployments R2C2: A Network Stack for Rack-scale Computers Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors