by Sujit D'Mello
May 20, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
May 12, 2016
The guys talk to Neil Mackenzie, a Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft. He gives us advice from his engagements helping customers do 'lift-n-shift' migrations to Azure.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode127.mp3
Other updates:
Platform supported migration of IaaS resources from Classic to Azure Resource Manager
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-migration-classic-resource-manager/
Azure in Canada generally available
Azure SQL Database elastic pools generally available
Azure Content Delivery Network from Akamai now available in the Azure portal
Test-drive feature now available on Azure Marketplace
Announcing Azure Mobile Services transition to Azure App Service
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transition-of-azure-mobile-services/
Microsoft Cloud accelerates in Canada and expands to South Korea
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cloud-accelerates-in-canada-and-expands-to-south-korea/
by Evan Basalik
May 5, 2016
by Cale Teeter
April 21, 2016
by Cale Teeter
April 14, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
April 7, 2016
We talk to Prashant Nayak about the Microsoft Premier Architecture Services program which gives customers that have never ventured to the cloud a quick 5-day workshop to get them started on their Azure journey. He discusses common blockers to adopting the cloud and how customers can prepare themselves to make the (eventual) move. Customers should talk to their TAMs about this cost-effective offering.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode122.mp3
Other resources and updates:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/privatecloud/2016/02/26/tool-arm-template-checker-for-microsoft-azure-stack/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-p100.html
http://www.cntk.ai/
by Cale Teeter
March 24, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
March 17, 2016
Cale and Sujit have a great chat with Azure Principal PM Arindam Chatterjee on the topic of Data Lake. Arindam demystifies the service for us and gives us some use-cases and scenarios where it makes sense to use it as opposed to other big data offerings from Azure.
Arindam Chatterjee is a Principal Program Manager in the Microsoft Azure Big Data team. He comes to big data after extensive experience in Transaction Processing, Authentication & Authorization technologies in Windows Core OS, and designing the Microsoft Dynamics security model. Arindam and his team are now focused on building a scalable analytic workload service that your big data jobs can run on as efficiently and reliably as possible across thousands of machines. In addition, he is also responsible for making Azure Data Lake services ready for adoption by Enterprises by building the appropriate Security & Compliance features.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode119.mp3
Azure Data Lake links:
Azure Data Lake in 100 seconds (Video)
Azure Data Lake landing page is here.
Twitter: @azuredatalake & @azure
Other updates:
Azure DevTest Lab is a service that helps developers and testers quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling cost. You can test the latest version of your application by quickly provisioning Windows and Linux environments using reusable templates and artifacts. Easily integrate your deployment pipeline with DevTest Lab to provision on-demand environments. Scale up your load testing by provisioning multiple test agents, and create pre-provisioned environments for training and demos.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/devtest-lab-overview/>
Today we are announcing the Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage. Leveraging the SMB 3.0 protocol support capabilities of Azure File Storage on Linux. This open source Docker volume plugin allows Docker containers to have data volumes stored outside the Virtual Machine and therefore makes it easy to migrate stateful containers between hosts.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/persistent-docker-volumes-with-azure-file-storage/>
by Sujit D'Mello
March 10, 2016
by Evan Basalik
March 3, 2016