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October 2015
Details on the event: Click here
Future Unleashed 2015 hosted 3000+ Business decision makers, CXOs,
ITProfessionals across various industry verticals. Attendees were given a
glimpse into the future of business and technology whilst gaining tangible
insights on the latest social and economic changes.
The immersive experience zones had smart retail, operations, banking and
governance along with Modern Sales, Marketing, HR and Finance
providing the business insights of the future technology.
The technical day had 14 tracks ran in parallel starting from Cloud,
Business productivity, enterprise mobility, data platform, datacenter
optimization etc and spanned 84 technical sessions across the tracks.
Details on How To: Click here
RHEL and Microsoft partnership includes Integrated Support, collaboration
on .Net across Red Hat offering and unified management across hybrid
cloud deployments .
With more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 using Microsoft’s cloud, for
us to team with the leader in enterprise Linux allows even more businesses
to move to the cloud on their terms. By working with Red Hat, we will
address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building,
deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private
and public clouds.
Details: Click here for more details.
Always Encrypted will be in Public preview by end of this month. Always
Encrypted helps you protect sensitive data without having to relinquish the
encryption keys to Azure SQL Database. Data remains encrypted at all times - in
transit, in memory, on disk and even during query processing.
Threat Detection will be in public preview by the end of the month. Threat
detection complements Azure SQL Database Auditing and alerts on suspicious
database activities at the database or logical server level.
Details: Click here for more details.
Azure SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption is to protect your data and help
you meet compliance requirements by encrypting your database, associated
backups, and transaction log files at rest without requiring changes to your
application.
Transparent Data Encryption for Azure SQL Database is built on top of the same
Transparent Data Feature that has been running reliably on SQL Server since
2008.
General availability
Details: Click here for more details.
Azure Data Lake Analytics is a distributed big data service that dynamically
scales your code so that you only need to focus on business logic and not
on distributed infrastructure.
The Azure Data Lake Store provides a single repository where you can
easily capture data of any size, type and speed without forcing changes to
your application as data scales. In the store, data can be securely shared
for collaboration and is accessible for processing and analytics from HDFS
applications and tools.
Public Preview
Details: Click here for more details.
U-SQL is a language that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive
power of your own code. U-SQL’s scalable distributed query capability
allows you to efficiently analyze data in the store and across relational
stores such as Azure SQL Database
Watch out the Azure blog for the six part series on different aspects of
Azure Data lake.
Details: Click here for more details.
There are significant improvements made in elastic database query – most
notably, elastic database query now supports querying across databases in Azure
SQL Database.
It allows for richer remote database querying topologies like the one illustrated in
the following figure where a number of databases need access to each others
tables.
Details: Click here for more details.
Power BI allows you to directly connect to data stored in Azure SQL Data
Warehouse, offering simple and dynamic data exploration. The integration is an
enterprise-class elastic data warehouse-as-a-service.
It was announced as part of AzureCon and it is now broadly available to all users.
Details: Click here for more details.
The Power BI Content Pack for Azure Audit Logs empower you to make better
business decisions. A content pack is an extension in Power BI you can configure
to retrieve data from data sources via APIs to build sharable reports and
dashboards.
Details: Click here for more details.
The DocumentDB connector for Power BI enables you to quickly construct a
multi-perspective view full of insights with data from DocumentDB.
For step-by-step instructions on how to use Power BI with DocumentDB, please
visit Visualizing DocumentDB Data with Power BI.
Beta Release
Details: Click here for more details.
Azure DSCForLinux extension enables you to manage the configuration of your
Linux VMs through DSC for Linux in Azure. You can now easily install DSC for
Linux and push the MOF configuration to your Linux VM through this extension.
The latest version of DSCForLinux Extension is 1.0, and GitHub location is here.
Here is what exactly DSCForLinux Extension can do for you:
• Push MOF configurations to the Linux VMs (Push Mode)
• Distribute MOF configurations to the Linux VMs with Pull Servers (Pull
Mode)
• Install custom DSC modules to the Linux VMs (Install Mode)
• Remove custom DSC modules to the Linux VMs (Remove Mode)
Details: Click here for more details.
MapR is a complete distribution for Apache Hadoop that packages more than a
dozen projects from the Hadoop ecosystem to provide you with a broad set of
big data capabilities. The MapR platform not only provides enterprise-grade
features such as high availability, disaster recovery, security, and full data
protection but also allows Hadoop to be easily accessed as traditional network
attached storage (NAS) with read-write capabilities.
You can find the MapR offering in the Azure Marketplace by navigating to
Marketplace in the Azure portal, and searching for MapR.
Details: Click here for more details.
In previous versions of Azure CLI the only supported authentication schemes
used Azure organizational accounts and service principals. Azure CLI v0.9.10 is
now available on WebPI, Mac, NPM and GitHub and it supports logins via
Microsoft Accounts (Live IDs). It improved the onboarding of new users in Azure
CLI and in partnership with Azure Active Directory, a new authentication flow for
Azure CLI is developed to support MSA as well.
Details: Click here for more details.
Now Managed Disaster Recovery for your IaaS workloads has become even more
easier with ASR/Azure pack integration.
Following are the new scenarios with Azure Pack
1. Managed DR with a single instance of Azure Pack having separate SCVMM
managing the primary and recovery DCs.
2. Managed DR with a single instance of Azure Pack having same SCVMM
managing both the primary and recovery DCs.
Details: Click here for more details.
Project Venus – code name for backup of Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V VMs,
SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and Windows Clients in Microsoft Azure
Backup Server is now released. Microsoft Azure Backup Server with application
workload support is currently available only in English language.
Details: Click here for more details.
Azure Powershell 1.0 aims at
• Enable better support for Resource Manager in Azure Automation
• Separate Azure Service Management and Resource Manager functionality to
provide clarity regarding features of Azure the cmdlets target
• Enforce semantic versioning and ensure cmdlets authored against a given
major version of Azure PowerShell will not encounter breaking changes from
updates to Azure PowerShell
• Distribute Azure PowerShell through WebPI and PowerShell Gallery to enable
quicker delivery of new features and defect resolutions
• Automation of Azure PowerShell MSDN reference documentation
Preview
Details: Click here for more details.
SQL Availability Groups can now be added to ASR Recovery plans along with
virtual machines. All capabilities of ASR Recovery plans such as sequencing,
scripting and manual actions can be leveraged to orchestrate the failover of a
multi-tier application that uses a SQL database, configured with AlwaysOn
replication, as backend.
Preview
Details: Click here for more details.
The most frequently requested capabilities in Azure search include multiple
language support. Now the number of languages supported in Azure Search is
increased from 35 to 56.
Watch out the Azure Search blog for
1. Lucene language analyzers
2. Lemmatization
3. Natural language processors
Details: Click here for more details.
Having a client library for iOS is essential to providing a complete mobile story
for developers. With this release, developers can now take advantage of Azure
Storage on all major mobile platforms: Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and
Xamarin.
Currently, this library supports iOS 9, iOS 8 and iOS 7 and can be used with both
Objective-C and Swift. This library also supports the latest Azure Storage service
version 2015-02-21.
Public Preview
Details: Click here for more details.
Microsoft Azure has developed numerous resources just for Java developers who
want to work with cloud-native applications, or just use cloud services from your
on-premises applications.
Details: Click here for more details.
From the Modern application standpoint sampling is a feature of the SDK that
allows you to collect and store a reduced set of telemetry while maintaining a
statistically correct analysis of application data in the portal. Currently, sampling
can be used with ASP.NET web applications on both client and server sides, or
only from the client-side for web applications written with other (non .NET)
server-side platforms
Details: Click here for more details.
Azure App Service now includes experimental support for running Go with web
apps.
The Go binary is installed with the Azure App Service platform. Versions currently
supported are 64bit Go 1.4.2 and Go 1.5.1.
Details: Click here for more details.
Beyond what the blogs, announcements and other stuff caters for the updates on
Azure, see the technology for yourself and get broader context and understand
its potential applicability through Microsoft Mechanics.
Updates available at http://azure.microsoft.com
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/
