Microsoft Azure News - Aug 2016
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Microsoft Azure News - Aug 2016
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- 6. Upcoming Presentations Month Presenter(s) Topic May 2016 Matt Simpson & Ed Smith (MegaPort) ExpressRoute and Office365 June 2016 BAUG Un-convention 2016.1 1. Mateusz Ligeza 2. Todd Whitehead 3. Adam Finster 4. Dan Toomey 1. Sandra.Snow & Azure Websites 2. Azure Cool Storage 3. Microsoft Cognitive Services 4. Microsoft Flow July 2016 Paul Seymour / Peter McCloy (Patient Zero) Internet of (Smelly) Things: Discoveries from the “Skunk Lab” August 2016 Bill Chesnut (MVP / SixPivot) API Management & Hybrid Integration September 2016 Paul Seymour / Peter McCloy (Patient Zero) (Follow-up on “Skunk Lab” IoT) October 2016 Matt Moore (Brocade) The Art of Performance November 2016 TBA December 2016 TBA
- 12. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (most regions) • Linked to Premium Storage availability • Higher compute options – 3000 DWU and 6000 DWU • Decouples compute & storage • GA pricing for compute & storage effective 1 September https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/
- 13. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (most regions) • Linked to Premium Storage availability • Higher compute options – 3000 DWU and 6000 DWU • Decouples compute & storage • GA pricing for compute & storage effective 1 September SQL Server Stretch • Dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data from Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Azure • More affordable than typical enterprise storage • No application changes required • Supports Always Encrypted technology • 1 September: new Stretch Database specific storage meter https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/
- 14. Always Encrypted • Applies to SQL Server and SQL Database • Protects sensitive data (credit card numbers, national ID, etc) • Can encrypt data inside client apps without revealing database encryption keys • Data Owner vs. Data Manager (non-viewing) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx
- 15. Always Encrypted • Applies to SQL Server and SQL Database • Protects sensitive data (credit card numbers, national ID, etc) • Can encrypt data inside client apps without revealing database encryption keys • Data Owner vs. Data Manager (non-viewing) Microsoft Power BI Embedded • GA SLA available in nine datacentres worldwide • Embed fully, interactive reports in client-facing apps • Supports row-level security for advanced filtering • 1 September: simplified session-based pricing model https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/power-bi-embedded/
- 16. Azure HD Insight – New Portal Only Microsoft R Server for Linux Virtual Machines • Most broadly deployable enterprise class analytics platform for R • Big data exploration, analysis, visualisation, & modelling • Fully compatible with R scripts, functions & CRAN packages • Adds parallel & chunked data processing to address memory limitations https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/r-server
- 17. Azure HD Insight – New Portal Only Microsoft R Server for Linux Virtual Machines • Most broadly deployable enterprise class analytics platform for R • Big data exploration, analysis, visualisation, & modelling • Fully compatible with R scripts, functions & CRAN packages • Adds parallel & chunked data processing to address memory limitations Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing APIs • GA as of 1st July • Available as standalone services • Autosuggest, Spell Check, and Search APIs https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/r-server https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/
- 18. G-Series Virtual Machines in Australia East • Latest Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 family • More memory • More SSD storage https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/
- 19. Azure Active Directory B2C • Built on Azure Active Directory (AAD) • Hundreds of millions of identities, Billions of authentications / day • Integrates with Web and Mobile platforms • Free until early 2017 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2c-overview/
- 20. Azure Active Directory B2C • Built on Azure Active Directory (AAD) • Hundreds of millions of identities, Billions of authentications / day • Integrates with Web and Mobile platforms • Free until early 2017 Azure Security Center • Take control of cloud security policies • Monitor current security of Azure resources • Detect and respond to active attacks https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2c-overview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-now-generally-available-proven-to-improve-security/
- 21. Azure Service Bus Premium • 99.9% SLA • More predictable performance with no multi-tenancy • Increased message size to 1 MB • Available in seven regions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/service-bus-premium-messaging-released-to-general-availability/
- 22. Logic Apps Feature of Azure App Service • Quickly build powerful integration solutions • Dozens of pre-built SaaS connectors • Visual designer for business process & workflow • Hybrid connectivity with on-prem systems • Integration with BizTalk Server https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-logic-what-are-logic-apps/
- 23. Microsoft R Client • Free tool for creating models & algorithms via ScaleR APIs • Accesses enhanced packages in Microsoft R Server Microsoft Stream • Connect, collaborate & learn via video • Consolidates & organises videos in one searchable location • Industry-leading encryption, customizable privacy setting VNet Peering • Link two virtual networks in the same region • Private IP addresses work as though part of the same network • Low-latency high-bandwidth routing via Azure backbone – no gateways
- 25. Xamarin Dev Days Saturday, 3rd September 2016 Microsoft Brisbane https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-brisbane
- 26. Innovation Days Sydney: Saturday, 17th September http://innovationdays.com.au/
- 28. Ignite 2016 (New Zealand)
- 30. 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
- 34. • Two per meeting given away • Free for unemployed members
- 36. API Management & Hybrid Integration Bill Chesnut SixPivot
Editor's Notes
- Craig Bryden, Principal Consultant (provided the beers) Power BI User Group TetraQuark is a Business Intelligence and SQL Server consultancy: Data Warehouse Design and Development ETL Design and Development OLAP design and development (Multi-dimensional and Tabular) Report Development Self Service BI Implementation Solutions Architecture
- Now includes data replication in multiple locations within the US for business continuity. 34 Azure regions around the world with 26 generally available—more than any other major cloud provider. Azure in-place virtual machine migration eliminates virtual machine reboots during critical security updates for Host OS While critical Host OS security updates previously caused a reboot, most virtual machines now benefit from Azure in-place virtual machine migration that only pauses them for up to 30 seconds, while the local temporary disk and memory state are preserved. Your virtual machines already benefit from this capability for certain critical security updates and, with an upcoming platform update later in 2016, we’ll eliminate the need for virtual machine reboot for most Host OS patches. Our goal is to eliminate the need for virtual machine reboots for all Host OS updates.
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now GA in most regions where Azure Premium Storage is generally available, and introduces new, higher compute options—3000 DWU (Data Warehouse Unit) and 6000 DWU—for more demanding analytics workloads. SQL Data Warehouse decouples compute and storage for the freedom to scale and right-size your environment. You pay only for the storage you use and the compute you want, just when you need it. 1 Sept: introduce GA pricing for both compute and storage—including a shift to selling storage in 1 TB allocations.
- With SQL Server Stretch Database, you can dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data from Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Azure. Unlike typical cold data storage, the data is always at hand. Stretch Database lets you retain data longer and more affordably than typical enterprise storage. Depending on how often the data will be accessed, you can choose the appropriate level of service, then scale up or down as needed. Using Stretch Database doesn’t require any application changes. You can also use Stretch Database with new Always Encrypted technology, which helps protect your data at rest and in motion. Stretch Database DSU will be renamed Compute DSU and will initially remain at 50 percent public preview billing. These services will be switched to general availability pricing (100 percent) on September 1, 2016. Also starting September 1, 2016, Stretch Database customers can take advantage of a new Stretch Database-specific storage meter.
- Always Encrypted helps protect sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers (for example, US Social Security numbers), stored in Microsoft SQL Server databases and SQL Database. Allows clients to encrypt sensitive data inside client applications and not reveal the encryption keys to the database. As a result, Always Encrypted distinguishes between those who own the data (and can view it) and those who manage the data (but should have no access). An Always Encrypted-enabled driver installed on the client computer achieves this by automatically encrypting and decrypting sensitive data in the client application. The driver encrypts the data in sensitive columns before passing the data to the Database Engine, and automatically rewrites queries so that the semantics to the application are preserved. Similarly, the driver transparently decrypts data, stored in encrypted database columns, contained in query results.
- Microsoft Power BI Embedded is generally available with a standard GA SLA in nine datacenters worldwide. Allows application developers to embed stunning, fully interactive reports and visualizations in customer-facing apps without the time and expense of having to build custom controls from the ground up. New functionalities in the service include row-level security for advanced filtering in embedded reports to support multiple-tenant SaaS app scenarios. We also simplified the Power BI Embedded pricing model and effective September 1, 2016, we’ll introduce a per-report, session-based pricing model rather than charge per report element render.
- Microsoft R Server is the most broadly deployable enterprise-class analytics platform for R available today. With a variety of big-data capabilities, including statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning, R Server supports the full range of analytics based on open-source R: exploration, analysis, visualization, and modeling. By using and extending open-source R, R Server is fully compatible with R scripts, functions, and CRAN packages and can analyze data at enterprise scale. We also addressed in-memory limitations of open-source R by adding parallel and chunked data processing in R Server, so users can run analytics on data much bigger than what fits in main memory. R Server allows you to write once and deploy across multiple platforms with minimal effort, whether on-premises or in the cloud. For Microsoft R Server in the Windows platforms, please use SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Virtual Machine and enable R Services.
- Microsoft Cognitive Services is GA as of 1 July 2016. Available as stand-alone services. Bing Autosuggest API helps users complete queries faster by adding intelligent type-ahead capabilities to an app or website. Bing Spell Check API helps correct spelling errors, recognizing the difference among names, brand names, and slang, and understanding homophones as they’re being typed. Bing Search APIs make apps, webpages, and other online experiences smarter and more engaging. Bing Search APIs include: Bing Web Search API offers enhanced search details from billions of web documents. Bing Image Search API includes thumbnails, full image URLs, publishing website info, image metadata, and more. Bing Video Search API includes useful metadata such as the creator, encoding format, video length, view count, and more. Bing News Search API includes authoritative images of the news article, related news and categories, provider information, article URLs, and dates images were added.
- Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machines customers can take advantage of the G-Series instances now available in Australia East. They feature the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family and provide unparalleled computational performance, more memory, and more local solid-state drive (SSD) storage than any current virtual machine size in the public cloud, making it ideal for your most demanding applications.
- Azure Active Directory B2C Hundreds of milliions of identies Billions of authentications /day Customers can sign in to applications through fully customizable experiences, using their existing social accounts or by creating new credentials.
- Azure Security Center helps you take control of cloud security policies, monitor the current security of your Azure resources, and detect and respond to active attacks. New features: Log integration Email notification Support for more resource types (RedHat & Linux distros, Web & Worker roles, outdated OS instances)
- Azure Service Bus is a messaging infrastructure that allows applications to exchange messages for improved scale and resiliency. The Service Bus Premium messaging tier is fully supported with a 99.9 percent service level agreement (SLA). Premium messaging offers high reliability and throughput, increases message size to 1 MB, and is available across seven regions: Southeast Asia, East Asia, West Europe, North Europe, Central US, West US, and East US.
- The Logic Apps feature of Azure App Service lets you build powerful integration solutions quickly using prebuilt connectors to SaaS and enterprise applications and a visual designer to easily automate business processes and workflows. Connects seamlessly both your on-premises systems and cloud applications, and you can also leverage existing BizTalk Server investments and connect to cloud applications. With Logic Apps, you can use other services like Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Cognitive Services to gain insights from your connected systems and make informed business decisions. While Logic Apps will still be available for purchase through Azure App Service, you can choose a standalone pricing model, if needed.
- Microsoft R Client is a free tool that lets data scientists explore production data to create models and algorithms using powerful ScaleR APIs. When you install R Client, you get access to enhanced R packages and connectivity tools provided in Microsoft R Server. ------- Microsoft Streaming: Corporate YouTube? Consolidate & Organise in one searchable location ------- VNet Peering for Azure Virtual Network lets you directly link two virtual networks in the same region. Virtual machine resources in both virtual networks can connect directly through private IP addresses as if they were part of the same network. VNet Peering routes packets between virtual networks through the internal Azure backbone network so there’s no gateway in the path. This allows for a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between virtual machines in the virtual networks. VNet Peering also allows transit through the peered VNets, so a Network Virtual Appliance or a VPN gateway in one virtual network can be used by a virtual machine in another peered VNet. Peering works across virtual networks in different subscriptions and between an ARM (V2) and ASM (V1) virtual network. It does not work between two ASM virtual networks
- Xamarin Dev Days provide attendees with an intense, hands-on learning experience. Spend the morning exploring mobile development with sessions from Xamarin, our technology partners, and members of your local developer community, then roll up your sleeves for an afternoon dedicated to diving into code. Glenn Stephens Me: Connected & Disconnected Apps with Azure
- Cloud and Datacenter Management Topics covered include Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud and the future of applications, integrating Cloud into your IT strategy/the challenges of the journey to the cloud, managing scalable applications to managing customer relationships through social platforms Data Analytics and Integration The world is moving faster than ever before, with more devices, more connections, more networks and new data. More than ever, to stay competitive, your business needs to move fast to process the large volumes of dynamically changing data. Learn how to be at the market frontier with enterprise analytics and unlock the power of your data in the cloud. Identity Enterprise identity management has been primarily focused on access to employees and contractors. But as the industry has been perfecting how to serve employees, consumer identity has presented itself as a growth opportunity for businesses and identity professionals alike. Topics covered: Identity Management, Device Management and Identity as a Service.
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