Azure Flash News

Today Rick and Mark chat about AzCopy on Linux GA, new capabilities for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, write acceleration for M Series VMs, global VN Peering GA in all regions, Microsoft Build next week, low priority VMs in Scale Sets, and an overview of what it takes to produce the website and podcast for Azure Flash News.

Today Rick and Mark discuss creating Azure Subscriptions programmatically, TDE for Azure SQL DB with your own key, Azure DDoS protection Standard, Service Fabric Reliable Services on RHEL, and a demo of Azure Private DNS Zones.

Today Rick and Mark talk about using Data Factory CI, Azure SQL DB Geo-redundancy with Azure Key Vault, achieving GDPR compliance with Azure, a case study on Azure Data Warehouse with Rubikloud, and an awesome demo on DevOps projects from VSTS.

Today Rick and Mark discuss Application Security Groups GA, a Databricks and Azure Data Factory Architecture, a great article on dealing with unique device IDs in IoT Hub, using Informatica in Azure in modern data warehouse architectures, some new capabilities for SQL Elastic Pools, and an article that goes through how to integrate Key Vault with ARM Templates for web farm certificates in VM Scale Sets.

Today Matt Lunzer and Greg Hoelzer hosted. They discussed an upcoming events, Global Azure Bootcamp and Build, console access to Virtual Machines, GA of Azure Files snapshot, soft delete for Azure Blob, Azure Load Balancer Standard, Azure DNS private zones, Service Fabric clusters from Visual Studio, and getting support for Azure IoT SDK.

Today Mark hosted the show and he talked about Event Hub integration with Spark, Terraform on the Marketplace, Columnstore in Azure SQL DB, SONiC, news for PostgreSQL and MySQL, a new book available about Serverless compute in Azure, GA of the new Alerts capability in Azure.

Today Rick and guest speaker Doug Splinter covered exciting new Azure announcements ranging from open sourcing a key Azure capability, to new features, to new regions available soon. Also, new features in Azure Active Directory B2C! Giddy up!

Today we had a guest host, Greg Hoelzer. Greg and Rick discussed some new capabilities in Azure Automation, a new article on Azure physical security, Spring Boot 2.0 and VSCode, faster metric alerts for Log Analytics, and SQL Information Protection.

This week we have a guest host, Matt Lunzer. Mark and Matt talk about Azure Migrate, Security Center Playbooks, B series VMs in AKS, Service Bus integration with Event Grid, and some new capabilities with Azure Load Balancer.

The week's news about Azure. February 23rd, 2018.

The week's news about Azure. February 16th, 2018.

Today Rick and Mark discuss new Video Indexer capabilities, some new stuff with serverless IoT, GA for Virtual Network Service Endpoints, Ansible for Azure, GA for Event Grid, a new updated Azure developer's guide e-book, Azure Bootcamp, Azure Security Center alerts to SEIM tools, new Stream Analytics capabilities, and zone redundant Virtual Machine Sets.

Today we had a guest host, Todd Kitta. We discussed Azure Security Center and custom security assessments, Azure CLI 2.0 IoT extension, and Azure Data Factory visual tools.

Today we discuss a way to auto-scale IoT capabilities, Azure Security Center's integration with App Gateway WAF, the new Linux Foundation course on Administering Linux in Azure, and the tried and true architecture - running web apps in multiple geographic locations.

Today we discuss the new CPU vulnerability and the architectures that can protect you from outages due to reboots, the new asynchronous refresh API for Azure Analysis Services, an article from the Azure CAT team about designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure, the ability to build richer apps with your time series data on Azure.