by Cale Teeter
January 14, 2015
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/
by Evan Basalik
January 9, 2015
by Sujit D'Mello
December 24, 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/
by Evan Basalik
December 17, 2014
by Sujit D'Mello
December 12, 2014
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
We’ve announced the general availability of several features, including Live Channels for Azure Media Services and High-Performance VPN gateway. Plus, a new SQL Database (including a new Standard tier performance level) and Premium Storage are now in public preview. Related pricing changes have also been announced.
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by Sujit D'Mello
December 3, 2014
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/
by Sujit D'Mello
November 25, 2014
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
by Sujit D'Mello
November 19, 2014
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
by Sujit D'Mello
November 12, 2014
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
by Sujit D'Mello
November 5, 2014
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