We talk to Danny Garber, a Media Services specialist at Microsoft and he gives us all the low-down on this little-understood Azure service that has grown to serve the Sochi Olympics live.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode60.mp3

Azure Media Services (General Info, Docs etc.): http://azure.com/media

Blog: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/topics/media-services/

Case studies for Azure Media Services including the 2014 Sochi Games http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/02/06/going-for-gold-windows-azure-media-services-provide-live-and-on-demand-streaming-of-2014-olympic-winter-games-on-nbc/

• The US broadcaster NBC and their Sports division’s Live and On Demand content via an app called “LiveExtra” (http://stream.nbcsports.com/liveextra/)
  
• Blinkbox (http://www.blinkbox.com) the OTT video on demand provider in the UK
  
• NASCAR and their wide array of car and motorbike racing at http://www.fanschoice.tv
  
• FujiTV’s “NextSmart” Service in Japan which streams all kinds of programming including F1 motor car racing - http://ch.nicovideo.jp/fujinextsmart
  
• Das Erste public broadcasting in Germany  (which has an app in the Windows 8 App Store in Germany - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/de-de/app/5cf1d640-0f00-41ba-967f-73168da01827
  

We talk to special guest Dmitry Lyalin who is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Visual Studio team about the current state and future plans for VS in the Azure space.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode59.mp3

http://www.lyalin.com/

Visual Studio 2015 Preview

http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2015-preview-vs 

Announcing Azure SDK 2.5 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 Preview 

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/12/announcing-azure-sdk-2-5-for-net-and-visual-studio-2015-preview/

Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/announcing-net-2015-preview-a-new-era-for-net.aspx 

Connect(); Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure 

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014

We talk to Santosh Balasubramaniam, A Senior PM in the Azure Stream Analytics team on the new service that is currently in Preview.

Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode58.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream-analytics/

Also see Santosh give a detailed demo of Stream Analytics here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/stream-analytics-introduction/

Evan and Cale discuss premium storage and some upcoming changes to the Storage API which may make some apps stop working unless they are updated.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode57.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-premium-storage-preview-portal/#scale

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/08/04/microsoft-azure-storage-service-version-removal/

Best practices for IO on Azure VMs - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Automate-the-creation-of-e41aecf6

The guys re-visit the topic of Backing up your files, folders and other on-premises data to Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode56.mp3

Nov 14 - Available in Australia

Retain data for up to 9 years was 120 days

SCDPM to backup VM to Azure:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2014/09/04/azure-iaas-workload-protection-using-data-protection-manager.aspx

Backup of Azure Storage (Table, Blobs & Queues) - Cmdlets, community apps available.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/remoteapp/ RemoteApp going GA

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/09/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-azure-government/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2856052/grueling-endurance-test-blows-away-ssd-durability-fears.html

Evan and Sujit talk to Apurva Joshi, a Senior PM in the Azure Websites team on how customers can easily migrate their workloads to Azure Websites using the Azure Websites Migration Tool.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode55.mp3

Download the migration tool here: https://www.movemetothecloud.net/

After doing some more analysis on the big Azure service outage from last week, Cale talks to us about a new service he's been playing around with - Azure Batch.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode54.mp3

Batch documentation - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/batch/

Resources:

Azure Storage Performance Guidance/Checklist

We talk to Jeff Lyttle, a Principal Consultant with Microsoft, on how he setup a self-service BI infrastructure in Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode53.mp3

Azure outage details: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/19/update-on-azure-storage-service-interruption

We talk to Edwina Revell, a Senior Delivery Manager with Microsoft, New Zealand, about a large Azure migration she just completed with a global customer. She tells us about some of the things customers need to keep in mind before attempting large-scale migrations.

Media file:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode52.mp3

We run through all the latest Networking feature updates to Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode51.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-scale-get-started/

• AzCopy 3.0 is now GA:
• AzCopy 4.0.0-preview also includes copying Azure Files, exporting table entities to local files or to azure storage block blobs, and importing the data back to a storage table. 

Full-length Tech Ed Europe Session on Networking updates with demos etc.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B227