Fascinating discussion with Dr. Krysta Svore, a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, where she leads the Quantum Architectures and Computation (QuArC) group. We also discuss near-term and long-term plans to get Quantum Computing into Azure. Dr. Svore joined Microsoft Research in 2006 and started the QuArC group in 2010. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of quantum algorithms, including the design of a scalable, fault-tolerant software architecture for translating a high-level quantum program into a low-level, device-specific quantum implementation. She has also developed techniques for protecting quantum computers from noise, including methods of quantum error correction, establishment of noise thresholds, and the development of improved decoders. She spent her early years at Microsoft developing machine-learning methods for web applications, including ranking, classification, and summarization algorithms. Her work in machine learning has expanded to include quantum algorithms for improve machine learning methods.  Dr. Svore was recently appointed as a member of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy and chaired the 2017 Quantum Information Processing Conference. Svore received an ACM Best of 2013 Notable Article award. In 2010, she was a member of the winning team of the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge. Dr. Svore is honored as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), serves as a representative for the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), and is an active member of the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Svore has authored over 65 papers and has filed over 20 patents. She received her PhD in computer science with highest distinction from Columbia University and her BA from Princeton University in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science and French. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode201.mp3 Indexed Video: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/712ee6315c/  To learn more about Microsoft’s quantum computing approach and to gain access to our quantum community, software preview release and more, visit www.microsoft.com/quantum and sign up to join our newsletter!  Our software preview release will be available by end of year.   Other updates Azure AKS - https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/introducing-azure-container-service-aks-managed-kubernetes-and-azure-container-registry-geo-replication/ Plus one click setup for Container Registry geo-replication Cray Supercomputers are coming to Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/cray-supercomputers-are-coming-to-azure/ Truffle 4.0 beta 2 now available on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/truffle-4-beta2/ Blk.io brings an ERC-20 token service using Quorum to Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/blk-quorum-erc-20/ One click replication of VMs via site recovery https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/simplified-disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-vms/  

Episode 200! We made it! For this special landmark, Bob Ward, Principal Architect on the SQL Server Team, joins us again to talk about a topic we never thought we'd hear - the release of SQL Server on Linux - available in Azure and on-premises. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode200.mp3 http://aka.ms/sqldev https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql Indexed video: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/b52d5370d4/   Other resources: New Log Analytics query language The new Log Analytics query language is available, and you can upgrade your workspace to take advantage of it with the following benefits: ✔ More extensive piping capabilities than the legacy language ✔ Advanced runtime calculated fields ✔ Advanced joins, including the ability to join tables on multiple fields, use inner and outer joins, and join on extended fields ✔ Advanced date/time functions Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-lake-tools-for-visual-studio-code-vscode-october-updates/ Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cosmos-db-in-azure-storage-explorer-preview/ Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-government-capabilities-for-classified-mission-critical-workloads/

Cale Teeter gives us the latest scoop on all the things Microsoft is doing in the Blockchain space. (Cale in Kiev talking about Blockchain) Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode199.mp3 Indexed video: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/102578ea8b/ Other updates:  Announcing Azure Files share snapshots public preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-azure-files-share-snapshots-public-preview/ Get alerts faster with near real-time alerting for Azure platform metrics https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/get-alerts-faster-with-near-real-time-alerting-for-azure-platform-metrics/ Embed Stunning Visuals into your Apps with Power BI Embedded- Generally Available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/embed-stunning-visuals-into-your-apps-with-power-bi-embedded-generally-available/ Today we’re excited and honored to be recognized for three Developer Satisfaction awards from SlashData, a leading analyst firm in the developer community. https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-s-azure-sql-database-ranked-1-database-as-a-service-for-developer-satisfaction-by-slashdata/ Accelerated Networking is now in an expanded preview. General availability (Windows) and preview (Linux): Accelerated Networking Public preview: Azure subscription cost reporting and analysis for enterprise customers Azure EA users can view and analyze their subscription costs across different pivots in the Azure portal https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cost-reporting-for-enterprise-preview/ Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub Announcing support for X.509 Certificates Authorities (X.509 CA) on Azure IoT Hub. Simplifies creation of initial unique IoT device identities enabling IoT at scale. Ready for provisioning using DPS.

Michael Stark, a Senior Consultant from Microsoft, gives us a Developer view on a customer POC he recently did using IoT Hub.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode198.mp3 Indexed Video: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/b1f4b13104/ Other updates: Embed Stunning Visuals into your Apps with Power BI Embedded- Generally Available Announcing new Azure VM images: SQL Server 2017 on Linux and Windows 02 October 2017 We are excited to announce that SQL Server 2017 images on Linux and Windows are now available in the Azure Marketplace! Deploying SQL Server in Azure VMs combines the industry-leading performance and security, built-in artificial intelligence, and business intelligence of SQL Server, now available on both Linux and Windows, with the flexibility, security, and hybrid connectivity of Azure. Get started with Monitoring in Azure 27 September 2017 We’re happy to announce the public preview of a new overview landing page in Azure Monitor. This landing page is designed to help you understand the monitoring capabilities offered by Azure, and to… Announcing Preview of Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks 27 September 2017 The Azure Storage team is excited to announce the preview of Firewalls and Virtual Networks for Azure Storage.  With this preview, the authorization capabilities of Azure Storage are expanded to allow administrators to also control which networks have access to their data. Announcing Virtual Network integration for Azure Storage and Azure SQL You can now secure Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database to only your virtual networks, by using virtual network service endpoints. Endpoints provide a direct connection from your virtual network to the Azure services, extending your virtual network's private address space and identity to the services. Traffic from your virtual network to the services will always remain on the Microsoft Azure network backbone. From AZURE LOAD BALANCER Azure Load Balancer introduces a HA Ports, a capability that enables you to load balance internal virtual network traffic on all ports for all supported protocols. The single rule configuration for all ports reduces the configuration complexity and removes the rule limits for Load Balancer. This capability is especially useful for scenarios that involve network virtual appliance (NVA) high availability. You can configure an HA Port rule on an Azure internal load balancer, and deploy the NVAs in n-Active mode for reliability and scale. You can also use HA Ports to enable load balancing on a range of ports by adding some NSG configuration on top. HA Ports is available in public preview in: • US East 2 • US Central • US West Central • Europe West • Europe North • Asia Southeast To get information on configuration and scenarios, see the Azure Load Balancer documentation. From Public preview: application security groups, service tags, augmented security rules Monday, September 25, 2017 The following features for network security groups (NSGs) are in public preview: • Application security groups You can use application security groups to configure network security as natural extension of an application’s structure, by arbitrarily grouping VMs and defining network security policies based on those groups. You can reuse your security policy and scale without manual maintenance of explicit IP addresses. The platform handles the complexity of explicit IP addresses and multiple rule sets, so you can focus on your business logic. For more information, see the documentation.  • Service tags for NSGs Service tags simplify security for Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Networks

We talk to Azure Automation expert Matthew Hofacker (a.k.a. Hellboy) from the Microsoft Azure Support team about the service and what you can do to make your scripts run efficiently.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode197.mp3 Indexed video: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/de10e219df/ Limitations/ Capacities : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits#automation-limits   Canned/Start Stop VM solution : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-solution-vm-management   Main link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-intro   Other updates: Public preview: SQL Vulnerability Assessment  Monday, September 25, 2017  SQL Vulnerability Assessment is now available for public preview.  You can use Vulnerability Assessment to track and monitor your database security settings, so that you can maintain compliance and ensure visibility and control of potential risks to the safety of your data.  Vulnerability Assessment offers a scanning service built into the Azure SQL Database service. The service employs a knowledge base of rules that identify security vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices, such as misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and exposed sensitive data. Results of the assessment include actionable steps to resolve each issue and customized remediation scripts where applicable. The assessment report can be customized for each environment and tailored to specific requirements. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-sql-vulnerability-assessment   AZURE LOAD BALANCER  You can use Azure Load Balancer Standard to create public and internal load-balanced deployments with much greater scale, resiliency, and ease of use for all your virtual machine instances inside a virtual network. The preview includes the following key scenarios:  Any virtual machine in a virtual network can now be part of the back-end pool, including up to 1,000 instances for virtual machine scale sets and multiple virtual machine scale sets. The backend pool is no longer limited to a single availability set.  Advanced analytics through Azure Monitor are available, including continuous in-band measurements for data plane health, per-endpoint health probe status, and counters for packets, bytes, connection attempts, and outbound connections.  Load balance across availability zones with zone-redundant and zonal public and internal Azure Load Balancer front ends and cross-zone load balancing for the back-end pool, as well as zone-redundant outbound connections.  HA Ports is available on an internal load balancer, enabling more resilience and scalability for network virtual appliance scenarios and other applications. A single rule can be configured to load-balance TCP and UDP flows irrespective of layer 4 port and allows faster failover and n-Active scale-out.  Network Security Groups are required for new public IP standard and any back-end instances for greater security and control.  A new model for outbound SNAT connections provides greater resiliency and scale.  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-load-balancer-standard    Preview: Azure Data Box  The Azure Data Box service is available in preview. You can use it to move hundreds of terabytes of data into Azure with high speed, by using secure transfer appliances. We accelerate the movement of your data by shipping you a proprietary, secure, and tamper-resistant transfer appliance, and by handling the end-to-end logistics.  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-box-preview

We talk to Sasha Rosenbaum, an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Specialist @ Microsoft, about her passion in serverless cloud computing, which she has documented in her new book. Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Serverless-computing-Azure-Sasha-Rosenbaum/dp/1787288390 Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode196.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/97e9fce696 Other updates: Microsoft Azure expands with two new regions for Australia Last month, we announced two new regions for Microsoft Azure located in Canberra, Australia and specifically designed to meet the needs of the Australian government. This increases the number of Azure regions announced across the globe to 42, more than any other major cloud provider.​ The two new regions, available in the first-half of 2018, are intended to be capable of handling sensitive Unclassified data as well as Protected data for the Australian government. Protected is a data classification for the first level of national security classified information in Australia. This is being achieved through a strategic partnership with the Australian-owned firm Canberra Data Centres (CDC). CDC are the preeminent specialist datacenter provider for secure government data in Australia with four modern Canberra-based facilities that hold the accreditations and security controls to handle even Top Secret classified data. Announcing larger, higher scale storage accounts https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-larger-higher-scale-storage-accounts/ Servicing Azure Stack using the Update resource provider https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/servicing-azure-stack-using-the-update-resource-provider/ More and more fun with Terraform on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/more-and-more-fun-with-terraform-on-azure/ Keep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service Identity https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/keep-credentials-out-of-code-introducing-azure-ad-managed-service-identity/

Evan and Sujit have a very insightful discussion about getting ramped up on Machine Learning and AI related workloads in Azure, with Azure RD, MVP and Architect - Vishwas Lele. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode195.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/519f272f27 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/AzureCon-2015/ACON314 https://blog.appliedis.com/2017/01/18/pattern-matching-vs-deep-learning/   Other Updates: Azure Active Directory Domain Services supports virtual networks created through the Resource Manager deployment model. This feature is in public preview. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ad-domain-services-support-for-resource-manager-virtual-networks-in-public-preview/   Announcing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage From     Microsoft Azure expands with two new regions for Australia Last month, we announced two new regions for Microsoft Azure located in Canberra, Australia and specifically designed to meet the needs of the Australian government. This increases the number of Azure regions announced across the globe to 42, more than any other major cloud provider.​ The two new regions, available in the first-half of 2018, are intended to be capable of handling sensitive Unclassified data as well as Protected data for the Australian government. Protected is a data classification for the first level of national security classified information in Australia. This is being achieved through a strategic partnership with the Australian-owned firm Canberra Data Centres (CDC). CDC are the preeminent specialist datacenter provider for secure government data in Australia with four modern Canberra-based facilities that hold the accreditations and security controls to handle even Top Secret classified data. ​   Accelerate Mission Critical database migrations Migrating data to a modern Data Estate can be a painful, expensive and time-consuming effort. Fortunately, there is a new offering from Microsoft and Attunity to ease the pain. Attunity Replicate for Microsoft Migrations ingests data in the most popular commercial and open source databases to the Microsoft data platform. So, no matter where our customers data resides, they can now migrate it quickly, easily and securely to SQL Server on premises or in the Azure cloud. Invite your customers to join experts from Microsoft and Attunity on a live webinar on September, 21st to learn how to:  · Save time with an easy-to-use solution  · Migrate data continuously with zero downtime  · Lower the cost of data migration  

Mark Eisenberg joins us again for a spirited discussion on all things Microservices and Containers. He shares some of his insights into customers trying to go down 'The Service Fabric Way' and why they often fail. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode194.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/8824fd49ac/ @CloudBizAndTech   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/manage-stored-access-policies-for-storage-accounts-from-within-the-azure-portal/ Azure App Service is now generally available on Linux An end-to-end high-productivity platform Azure App Service is now generally available on Linux, including its Web App for Containers capability. With this, we now offer built-in image support for ASP.NET Core, Node.js, PHP and Ruby on Linux, as well as provide developers an option to bring their own Docker formatted container images supporting Java, Python, Go and more. ark Russinovich and Seth Juarex discuss blockchain basics on Channel 9 https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/An-Introduction-to-Blockchain-with-Mark-Russinovich Windows Authentication in Service Fabric and ASP.NET Core 2.0 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/windows-authentication-in-service-fabric-and-asp-net-core-2-0/ Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/create-flexible-arm-templates-using-conditions-and-logical-functions/ Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bot-conversation-history-with-azure-cosmos-db/ Azure Management Libraries for .NET - v1.2 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-management-libraries-for-net-v1-2/ http://www.ey.com/gl/en/industries/financial-services/insurance/ey-blockchain-marine#section6

We talk to Chris Kent, from Hashicorp about the problem of handling secrets in cloud computing. He discusses the Vault product and we compare it to Azure Key Vault. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode193.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/e1c71ec187 https://www.hashicorp.com/   Other updates: Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-archive-blob-storage-and-blob-level-tiering/ New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-performance-levels-and-storage-add-ons-in-azure-sql-database/ What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: August 2017 Digest https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/visual-studio-team-services-august-2017-digest/ Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-s-coco-framework-for-enterprise-blockchain-networks/  

Evan and Sujit have a fun discussion on how they use Azure for their personal and business lives. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode192.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/6e8f1c133d   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/announcing-disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-vms-using-asr https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/database-scoped-global-temporary-tables-in-public-preview-for-azure-sql-db/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-event-grid-an-event-service-for-modern-applications https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-dynamic-site-acceleration