Melbourne Azure Meetup 6/4/2018 Melbourne Azure Meetup October 2016 Chris Padgett Kloud Solutions © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Agenda Announcements & news Chris Padgett & Chris Zhong Under the hood: Azure DevTest Labs James Bannan, Azure MVP CloudCtrl (sponsor) for managing your cloud services Bill Chesnut, Azure MVP

Announcements Azure SQL Database Advisor tuning updates Decreases time (from a week to less than a day) that is required to analyse and (auto-)apply any indexing recommendations. Microsoft Clouds are now available in UK, Germany and coming to France in 2017 (up to 36 datacenter regions) Germany is the first geography where the customer data is managed by a 3rd-party data trustee (T-Systems International). Azure Media Services UHD Content Encoding and Streaming Trial Adds a new encoder that enables content to be streamed to 4K TVs. If you are interested in trial, contact ams-uhdsup@microsoft.com. Azure Media Analytics Face Redaction Preview Azure Media Redactor allows anonymisation by blurring faces of individuals, e.g. for use in public safety scenarios. Encryption for Azure Blob Storage General Availability Storage Service handles all encryption, decryption and key management transparentally for all redundancy types using AES-256.

Announcements Service Fabric for Linux Preview You can now create Service Fabric clusters in Azure using Linux as the host operating system and deploy Java applications to them. Azure Event Hubs Archive Preview Archives data from Event Hubs to Blob Storage within minutes by managing all compute and downstream processing for you. Azure Mobile Apps Node.js Server SDK v3 Includes data transforms, hooks and filters; data query improvements such as soft-deletes; and table function callbacks. Batch Shipyard (see https://azure.github.io/batch-shipyard/) A new toolkit that enables you to create, deploy and execute batch-style Docker workloads on Azure Batch compute pools. Azure Security Center Feature Previews Integrated Vulnerability assessments; expanded WAF capabilities for Azure ASEs; Azure Storage Service assessments.

Announcements Service Fabric for Windows Server General Availability You can now create Service Fabric clusters in Azure IaaS, another cloud provider, or your own DC and deploy .NET applications to them. Azure Monitor Preview A new service built on existing ones that make it simpler to consume logs, metrics, and telemetry in the Azure Portal or via APIs. Azure DNS General Availability (and other Azure Networking updates) This global service enables you to host your DNS domains and manage your DNS records in Portal, via PowerShell/CLI, and using APIs. Azure Virtual Machines H-Series Preview H-Series, with up to 16 cores and 8 high-bandwidth/-speed NICs, are purposed for complex engineering and scientific workloads. inc. reading data from JSON text, parsing JSON text as table data, and formatting table data as JSON text adoption, distribution, feedback, etc. Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 This now includes many of the Compute, Networking, Storage, Key Vault, Monitoring and Billing capabilities of the Azure Cloud.

Event: Azure Discovery Day Wednesday, 12 October 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Microsoft Office Melbourne Free Register here

Event: Azure Infrastructure and Architecture Course 24 – 28 October 2016 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1 440 Collins Street $599 Register here

Meetup: Citizen Data Scientists Using Azure Machine Learning to Predict Melbourne House Prices Thursday, 27 October 2016 From 5:30 PM Melbourne Office Melbourne Free Register here