Azure Sydney User Group

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November 2015 Meetup

Agenda

• Pizza and beer!

• What’s new in Azure since our last meetup

• Introduction to Azure Resource Manager – Simon Waight (Kloud Solutions).

Upcoming events

How much does Azure make?

For the quarter ending June 2015

Azure had ~ USD400 million in sales.

In Preview

• Beta of DocumentDB connector for Power BI

• Storage SDK for iOS (Obj-C / Swift)

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

• Azure Data Lake including analytics and store.

• Azure Resource Health.

• Azure Redis Cache Premium tier.

• Azure SQL Database – AAD Authentication.

Generally Available

• Azure PowerShell 1.0.0.0 (no more “Azure-SwitchMode”)

• Linux PowerShell DSC VM Extension.

• MapR cluster one-click deployments.

• Azure Search: support for 56 languages.

• App Insights Telemetry Processor feature.

• Azure Backup for Workloads (SQL, SharePoint, etc).

• Azure SQL Data Warehouse improvements.

Generally Available

• Web Apps improvements: • .Net 4.6, Process Explorer fixes, large AAD support, deploy

from OneDrive (no, really!), better Portal experience, ClearDB(MySQL) cluster support.

• Azure SQL DB: • Elastic query – joined database queries.

• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).

• Always Encrypted – multi-tenant support.

• Dynamic Data Masking.

Generally Available

• DocumentDB:• Geospatial support

• Indexing online updates support.

• JavaScript integrated query API.

• Azure Media Indexer update (bugfix release).

• Azure Data Factory (with more locations).

• Azure CDN: country targetting; compression; analytics.

• Azure CLI now supports MSA logins.

Generally Available

• Azure Mobile Engagement

• HDInsight on Linux

• ExpressRoute – improved billing and O365

• Azure alerts to trigger Azure Automation

• Cloud Foundry.

Announcements

• Scalr support for Azure.

• Application Insights moving from VSO to Azure.

• Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System Support.

• Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 3 (with Containers!)

• Azure CDN will leverage Akamai

Azure Sydney User Group

Introduction to Azure Resource Manager

Simon Waight, Kloud Solutions