The Azure Podcast

Cale and Evan chat with Gaurav Malhotra who is a PM with the Azure team.   Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode101.mp3 Announcing a new partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-a-new-partnership-between-microsoft-and-red-hat/ Azure DocumentDB is now available in South Central US From Elastic Database Transactions with Azure SQL Database From Microsoft Virtual Academy: Security in a cloud-enabled world From Dynamic Data Masking is now generally available for Azure SQL Database From General availability of Cloud Foundry and preview access of Pivotal Cloud Foundry From  

The guys continue their analysis of the AzureCon 2015 announcements and bring us up-tp-date on the latest in the Azure space. They also reminisce a bit about the last 99 episodes. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode100.mp3 Other resources: An early look at Containers: Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and Azure with Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Mechanics) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/an-early-look-containers-windows-server-2016-hyper-v-and-azure-with-mark-russinovich/    Azure Data Lake reaches Public Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-lake-reaches-public-preview/   Introducing the Azure DSCForLinux Extension https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introduce-azure-dscforlinux-extension/   The Walking Dead: No Man's Land game soars to #1 supported by Azure DocumentDB https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-walking-dead-no-mans-land-game-soars-to-1-with-azure-documentdb/   All Things Open - Raleigh, NC http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-russinovich-the-microsoft-azure-cloud-and-open-source/   http://azurecorner.com/access-your-azure-vms-through-a-web-browser-with-thinrdp/  

Cale and Sujit discuss the announcements at AzureCon and also some geeky stuff with GPUs. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode99.mp3 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/ Virtual academy training by AzureCAT: “Deep Dive into Azure Resource Manager Scenarios and Patterns”   Convert from ASM to ARM (not official) https://github.com/fullscale180/asm2arm  

We chat with Ashwin Kamath, a Senior PM in the Azure team about the WebHooks feature that was recently released. It allows for easy integration of Azure Alerts with any other incident management system that the customer may be using. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode98.mp3   Webhooks for alerts: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/ PagerDuty integration guide : https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/azure-integration-guide/   They can also use Twilio SMS, Slack channel or Azure Queues for alert notifications:  Logic App to send SMS via Twilio API. Create a Twilio account first. Logic App to send Slack messages. Create a Slack account first Logic App to send messages to an Azure Queue.   From Azure Automation team: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/using-azure-automation-to-take-actions-on-azure-alerts/   Ashwin's recent blog post on the topic:  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/      

Evan and Sujit talk to Kathleen Wilson who is a cloud specialist at Microsoft focused on helping companies adopt and manage cloud technologies. She shares some unique insight into the human aspect of cloud adoption and how people and processes need to be addressed first before going to the cloud. She is also a regular speaker at events around the world on this topic. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode97.mp3 Other links: Microsoft Azure is now generally available from three new India regions Azure Datacenter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ44hEr5DFE  

We are joined by Mahesh Thiagarajan, a Senior PM in the Azure Compute team responsible for the work behind the new IaaS V2 service that runs under ARM. He discusses some of the enhancements in the VM-hosting service and reasons for the new model and how customers can migrate to this new service. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode96.mp3  

Sujit and Evan talk about Azure Service Fabric, the soon-to-be-released PaaS model that works both in the cloud and on-premises.  Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode95.mp3   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric  

Cale has started on a project to re-architect the azpodcast.com website using Visual Studio Code, node.js, Express, DocumentDB etc. and he shares the design and work done so far. User feedback is welcome! Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode94.mp3   Other updates: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/boot-diagnostics-for-virtual-machines-v2/ What’s new with DocumentDB? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-with-documentdb/   Public Preview for Performance Test on Web and Mobile Apps   Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging is available SQL Server Management Studio August 2015 preview is now available  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx TechNet article Lock down network access to virtual machines on Azure virtual networks by  Sr. PM Tom Shinder

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

As part of our Engineer Series, the guys talk to Tomas Talius who is an architect in the Azure SQL team and gives us some insight into the product. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode92.mp3   Updates:  Announcing the GS-Series: Adding Premium Storage Support to the Largest VMs in the Public Cloud http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-has-the-most-powerful-vms-in-the-public-cloud/    http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/logic-apps-net-sdk-available/ where you can download the SDK and check out this week’s Logic Apps video https://youtu.be/N-ZDaKsH6BY?list=PLfyqq4V4zxGGkBHcts3vpPohtyKYZ7UiQ   You can use the following script to convert an Active Directory object GUID to an Azure Active Directory Immutable ID….   Convert DirSync/MS Online Directory Immutable ID to AD GUID (and vice versa) https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Covert-DirSyncMS-Online-5f3563b1