Post on 19-Jul-2020
Azure Sydney User Group
Sponsors
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