5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2018 Adam Stephenson Make your life easier - Build a dev-bot !
February 2018 David O'Brien Containers on Windows Nanoserve
March 2018 Microsoft Brisbane CSAs Assorted Topics
April 2018 Dan Dekel Azure Deployment Slots and How to Use Them
May 2018 Glenn Stephens Improving your Apps decisions with Azure
Cognitive Services
June 2018 JiaJi Chen Azure Bot Services
July 2018 Andrew Cartwright Welcome to Azure Service Fabric, Be Our Guest
August 2018 Dan Toomey A 360 View of Azure
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8.
9. Azure VM M-series instances GA in more regions
• Memory configuration from 1 TB to 4 TB
• SAP HANA certification
• Now generally available in:
• Australia East
• Australia Southeast
• Japan East
• Japan West regions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-b-series-and-m-series/
Size vCPU’s Memory
(GiB)
Local SSD
(GiB)
Max data disks
M64s 64 1024 2048 32
M64ms 64 1792 2048 32
M128s 128 2048 4096 64
M128ms 128 3800 4096 64
10. Azure Stack is now available in 92 countries
• Can buy as a managed service or as a system you manage yourself
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/microsoft-azure-stack-expands-availability-to-92-countries/
11. Azure Container Instances is now GA
• Easiest and fastest way to run containers on Azure without managing servers or virtual machines (VMs)
• Use newly available features to:
• Execute a command directly in your container to launch an interactive shell
• Monitor CPU and memory utilization of Linux containers through Azure Monitor
• Configure a reliable endpoint for each container by placing a Domain Name System (DNS) name label
through the REST API or Azure CLI 2.0
• Now generally available for both Linux and Windows containers
• GA pricing will be effective on July 1, 2018
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-instances/
12. Traffic analytics feature is now GA
• Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance and health
• Visibility into user, app, and network activity on your cloud network
• General availability (GA) pricing will begin on July 1, 2018
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/traffic-analytics
13. SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is now GA
• One-stop-shop to discover, track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities
• Visibility into your security state
• Includes actionable steps to investigate, manage and resolve security issues
• Available for Azure SQL Database customers and on-premises SQL Server customers via SSMS
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-sql-atp-and-sql-vulnerability-assessment-general-availability/
New SQL Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
• Includes:
• SQL Threat Detection
• SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA)
• SQL Information Protection (preview)
14. Azure Maps is now GA
• Formerly Azure Location Based Services
• Set of geospatial service APIs to integrate functionalities into
your apps:
• Mapping
• Search
• Routing
• Traffic
• Time zone
• General availability (GA) pricing began on May 7, 2018
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps
15. App Service on Linux previewing on
App Service Environment
• Run Linux-based, business-critical workloads in a virtual network
• New Linux-specific resource names will be generally available
• Prices effective 1 June 2018
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/
16. Azure Lab Services in preview
• Create computer labs in the cloud quick & easy
• Create from a list of archetypes or build a custom lab
• Includes dashboard analytics and built-in security
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/lab-services/
21. Sergio Zenatti Filho
Unleash the Power of Azure Data Factory
Thursday, 14th June 7:00pm AEST
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7731109748978944514
26. On Demand Training - Updates
mva.microsoft.com
•Dev/Test in the Cloud
•Getting Started with the Internet of Things (IoT)
www.pluralsight.com
•Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
•Docker for Web Developers
•Azure AD for Developers
www.opsgility.com
•Azure For AWS Experts
•Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD
•Monitoring Apps with Application Insights
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28.
29. Jia Ji Chen
A Look into MS Conversational AI Tech Stack
Editor's Notes
Memory configuration from 1 TB to 4 TB and SAP HANA certification, to support scalability and agility for SAP and other workloads that require large memory consumption.
In-memory databases can load large datasets into memory and use fast memory access to speed up queries and enable real-time analytics. They’re now generally available in the Australia East, Australia Southeast, Japan East, and Japan West regions, in addition to the East US 2, West US 2, West Europe, UK South, and Southeast Asia regions.
A system you manage
Typically on-premises
You control management and ops
Buy Azure Stack from Microsoft
Buy hardware from the vendor
You call Microsoft for support
A managed service
Typically at service provider premises
Service is managed for you
Buy service from service provider
Service is inclusive of hardware and software
You call the service provider for support
Azure Network Watcher lets you monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance and health. With the traffic analytics feature of Network Watcher, get visibility into user, app, and network activity on your cloud network.
Feature is now generally available. General availability (GA) pricing will begin on July 1, 2018.
Traffic analytics examines the raw NSG flow logs and captures reduced logs by aggregating common flows among the same source IP address, destination IP address, destination port, and protocol. For example, Host 1 (IP address: 10.10.10.10) communicating to Host 2 (IP address: 10.10.20.10), 100 times over a period of 1 hour using port (for example, 80) and protocol (for example, http). The reduced log has one entry, that Host 1 & Host 2 communicated 100 times over a period of 1 hour using port 80 and protocol HTTP, instead of having 100 entries. Reduced logs are enhanced with geography, security, and topology information, and then stored in a log analytics workspace. The following picture shows the data flow
New ATP security package provides a single go-to location for discovering, classifying and protecting sensitive data, managing your database vulnerabilities, and detecting anomalous activities that could indicate a threat to the database
Azure Maps, formerly Azure Location Based Services, is a set of geospatial service APIs that lets you integrate mapping, search, routing, traffic, and time zone functionalities into your apps.
General availability (GA) pricing began on May 7, 2018. There are also resource name changes because of the new service name. Learn more.
Presenter: Sergio Zenatti Filho
Talk: Unleash the Power of Azure Data Factory
Summary: Big data requires service that can orchestrate and operationalize processes to refine the enormous stores of raw data into actionable business insights. Azure Data Factory is a managed cloud service that's built for these complex hybrid extract-transform-load (ETL), extract-load-transform (ELT), and data integration projects. In this session, you will discover how easy it is to unleash the Power of Azure Data Factory v2 with a real-life example of data pipelines built for enterprise companies.
Bio: Sergio Zenatti Filho is an Associate Director – Data & Advanced Analytics at Satalyst with over 16 years of experience in the delivery of Data, Analytics and Application Solutions. I have worked internationally around Australia, Brazil and New Zealand, in sectors that include Government, Healthcare, Telecom, Finance Services, Retail, Manufacture, Automotive, Mining, Oil & Gas, Dairy and Facility Management.
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Jia Ji Chen is a senior consultant for Avanade. He is very passionate about innovation.