Microsoft Azure News - March 2015
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This document provides information about recent updates and availability of Microsoft Azure services and regions. It announces that Azure Machine Learning is generally available and includes new features. It also announces that Azure Search is now available in standard tiers with new capabilities. Additionally, it provides information about upcoming Global Azure Bootcamp events in Brisbane in April and May for learning Azure.
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Microsoft Azure News - March 2015
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- 5. Azure region Release status of V12 Central US General availability East US General availability East US 2 General availability North Central US General availability South Central US General availability West US General availability North Europe General availability West Europe General availability East Asia General availability Southeast Asia General availability Japan East General availability Japan West General availability Brazil South Not available; general availability planned for Q3 2015 Australia East Public preview; general availability planned for Q2 2015 Australia Southeast Public preview; general availability planned for Q2 2015
- 7. Azure Machine Learning generally available http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/ • Offers cloud-based advanced analytics designed to simplify and streamline machine learning for business. • Create models with algorithms from • Xbox & Bing, • R or Python packages, • Custom R or Python code. • Monetize by publishing to the Machine Learning Marketplace • April 1, 2015 automatic subscription conversion to Standard version
- 8. • Search-as-a-Service • Support for more than 50 languages • Indexers load from Azure DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- 9. • April 8th, 2015 • Available in three standard performance tiers: S1, S2 & S3 • Rich queries with familiar SQL & JavaScript syntax • Write optimised with automatic indexing • Multi-document transactions • Tunable consistency levels
- 11. Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services in public preview http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/05/introducing-premium-encoding-in-azure-media-services/ • New and advanced encoding capabilities • Support for: • MXF and DVCPRO formats • 4K AVC • multilanguage audio • closed captioning • deinterlacing • color conversion • Accessible through the Azure Media Services Explorer desktop tool.
- 12. Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements (February Update) http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/02/announcing-azure-preview-portal-improvements-february-update/ • Improved Portal interactions • Keyboard shortcuts • New (and simpler) startup experience • Added Minimize command to all blades • Improvements in Browse • Maximized blades only scroll vertically • Simpler default startboard • New setting: disable animations • Show value of chart in X axis on hover • More resources implementing the Essentials pattern • Audit logs • Marketplace improvements • Updated New hub • Social sharing of marketplace items • Improved pricing tier blade • Improved browser interactions • Browser Back button support (preview) • Text selection in blade headers
- 18. http://global.azurebootcamp.net/ Global Azure Bootcamp 2015 Locations all around the globe – including Brisbane! Saturday, 25th April 2015 Saturday, 2nd May 2015
- 19. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032616856&Culture=en-AU&community=0 Azure Licensing for ISVs and Startups The Edge (Cultural Centre – South Bank) Brisbane Tuesday, 24th March 2015 at 12:15 pm
- 20. https://www.sqlsaturday.com/382/eventhome.aspx SQL Saturday #382 Australian Institute of Management (AIM), Cnr Boundary and Rosa Streets, Springhill Saturday, 28th March 2015
Editor's Notes
- A10 instances have 8 virtual cores and 56 GB of RAM, while A11 instances have 16 virtual cores and 112 GB of RAM.
- Be aware of automatic subscription upgrade on 1st April !!!
- 50+ languages now supported!
- NoSQL database Rich queries with familiar SQL and JavaScript syntax – use DocumentDB to store heterogeneous JSON documents and query these documents through a familiar SQL syntax with language integrated JavaScript. DocumentDB’s query language supports rich relational and hierarchical queries through a familiar SQL dialect. It is rooted in JavaScript’s type system, expression evaluation and function invocation model. Write optimized with automatic indexing – develop applications that store and query documents concurrently, with consistent results for users. DocumentDB is write-optimized and schema-agnostic to serve consistent queries in the face of a sustained volume of document writes. By default, the database engine automatically indexes all documents and properties without requiring schema or secondary indexes. Multi-document transactions – offload complex transactional processing to the database tier through DocumentDB’s multi-document, transactional execution of stored procedures and triggers. Stored procedures and triggers allow you to efficiently process JSON documents through small JavaScript programs executed within the database. DocumentDB’s deep integration of JavaScript eliminates the impedance mismatch between programming languages/type-systems and the database schema. Tunable consistency levels – tune your data consistency to achieve the best application performance with DocumentDB. Well defined, predictable and easy to use; these tunable data consistency options allow you to make deterministic tradeoffs between read consistency and performance. DocumentDB’s session consistency offers read-your-write guarantees with high performance reads and writes.
- Now customers can select Linux clusters when deploying big data workloads to Azure. You can also more easily move existing Apache Hadoop workloads into the cloud, plus access an expanded set of big data components to run in the service. gain insights from the massive amounts of data being created in the cloud. Can be deployed today by registering for the public preview via the Preview features webpage.
- April 2013 we held the first Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at more than 90 locations around the globe March 2014 we topped that with 136 locations! one day deep dive class to help thousands of people get up to speed on developing Cloud Computing Applications for Azure. hands on labs. Charity Labs - Last year we pooled a huge global compute farm to perform diabetes research.
- Put on by the Microsoft Developer Experience team Explain the additional options that are available to start-ups and ISV Partners as well as detailing the current Azure offers and promotions that are available. Open License programme and the Enterprise Agreement License programme In addition, staff from the Microsoft DX team will present on how the DX team engages with local start-ups and ISVs who are building businesses on Azure and the assistance they can provide.
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