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Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Data Catalog - Machine Learning. This post is authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Information Management & Machine Learning at Microsoft.

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Data Catalog - Machine Learning

As one more important step towards our commitment to deliver a world-class cloud analytics platform, I am thrilled to announce that the public preview of the Microsoft Azure Data Catalog – an enterprise metadata catalog / portal for the self-service discovery of data sources – becomes available on Monday next week, July 13, 2015. Azure Data Catalog is a fully managed service that stores, describes, indexes and provides information on how to access any registered data source. It closes the gap between those seeking information and those producing it. The video below gives you a quick overview of its key capabilities: Businesses of every size face the challenge of sifting through their myriad data sources and discovering the right ones for a given problem.

Rob Tiffany sur Twitter : "Getting Started with #Azure #IoT services: Event Hubs. Getting Started with Azure IoT services: Event Hubs. For your Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios, you can think of Event Hubs as the loosely-coupled beginning of an event pipeline that sits between event publishers like sensors and event consumers like Azure Stream Analytics.

Getting Started with Azure IoT services: Event Hubs

With industry analysts predicting tens of billions of “Things” sending telemetry over the Internet in the coming years, most data ingestion solutions won’t be able to handle the onslaught of information. Event Hubs and Azure are designed for this very scenario. Unlike queues, Event Hubs implement partitions (shards) to support massive horizontal scale for the processing of a million events per second. Consumer Groups provide consuming applications an independent view of the Event Hub from which to read the telemetry streams that can lead to complex event processing, storage or other downstream services.

Go to your Azure Portal and click the Service Bus icon on the left side of the page as shown below: Click Create a New Event Hub. @robtiffany. I’m giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server, and. Who’s ready for even more FREE Microsoft eBooks???

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If you are, then I’m happy to let you know that once again, I am putting up my collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks, User Guides, Deployment Guides, Step-By-Steps, etc. and more here on the blog for all of you to take advantage of and download for FREE! As you may know, over the past few years I have been posting collections of FREE Microsoft eBooks (close to 500 total so far) on my blog for people around the world to use and these have been a HUGE success. In fact, two years ago, there were over 3.5 MILLION free eBooks downloaded throughout the year. SCCT sur Twitter : "Disaster Recovery for #VMware VMs & Physical Machines to #Azure using ASR just became GA! …

Announcing the GA of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and Physical Machines to Azure using ASR. I’m excited to announce the GA of an important functionality in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that lets you enable replication and protection of your VMware workloads and physical machines to Azure.

Announcing the GA of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and Physical Machines to Azure using ASR

ASR, with its ability to protect Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines and physical machines, is a unified solution for workload-aware disaster recovery and protection of your heterogeneous and hybrid IT environments. The functionality has been in Preview since March this year, and has successfully passed the rigorous evaluation and validation goals of our early customers. With marquee customers already on board, and with their early feedback incorporated, ASR’s SLA-backed offering is now ready to replicate your on-premises workloads to Azure. ASR, as the replication technology behind Microsoft’s Availability on Demand (AoD) solutions, enable enterprises and service providers of all sizes, to use Microsoft Azure for DR, Cloud Migration, DevTest, and other enterprise scenarios.

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Microsoft Launches New Microsoft Azure VM Pricing Tool

Microsoft’s customers and partners need to know how much something costs because budgets dictate the green light for IT proposals, and businesses don’t have a great big bottomless IT budget that they can always dip into. Almost every day, one of my colleagues in the sales department will pass over a call to me, where a customer is asking how much a server costs in Azure.

I slowly count to 10, and then explain that Azure is a technical sale. News from UseR!2015 - the RHadoop tutorial. By Andrie de Vries Today is the first day of UseR!

News from UseR!2015 - the RHadoop tutorial

2015 conference in Aalborg in Northern Denmark. But yesterday was a day packed with 16 tutorials on a range of interesting topics. R at Microsoft. I was honoured to be the presenter at last night's meeting of SURF, the 11th largest R user group worldwide.

R at Microsoft

The topic of my presentation was "R at Microsoft", where I described how Microsoft has enthusiastically embraced R for internal use (such as for Azure capacity planning, and Xbox gaming improvements), and as a feature of its data platforms including Azure ML and (soon) SQL Server 2016. Not to mention of course the continued support for Revolution R Enterprise and our R-related open source projects including Revolution R Open. I've embedded the slides below. Many thanks to the SURF organizers and members for the warm welcome and the great conversations over pizza and (Australian!) Beer. Can I VPN to Azure using the Point-to-Site from a non-Windows machine?

Azure Service Bus – As I Understand It: Part II (Queues & Messages) — GauravMantri.com. Continuing from my previous post about Azure Service Bus, in this post I will share my learning about Queues & Messages.

Azure Service Bus – As I Understand It: Part II (Queues & Messages) — GauravMantri.com

The focus of this post will be about some of the undocumented things I found as we implemented support for Queues and Messages in Cloud Portam. Queues As mentioned in my previous post, Queues is the simplest of the Azure Service Bus service and kind of compares with Azure Storage Queue Service in the sense that it provides a unidirectional messaging infrastructure where a publisher publishes a message and the message is received by a receiver. There can be many receivers ready to receive the messages however one receiver can only receive a message. No two receivers can receive a single message simultaneously.

Now some learning about Queues. Queue Name. Azure Key Vault Service Now Commercially Available. News Azure Key Vault Service Now Commercially Available Microsoft turned on its Azure Key Vault service this week for commercial use.

Azure Key Vault Service Now Commercially Available

Azure Key Vault is a means of managing the cryptographic keys and passwords (called "secrets" by Microsoft) that are associated with applications. It works by tapping hardware security module (HSM) appliances housed in Microsoft Azure datacenters where the keys are stored. The service is currently available in all regions except Australia, but the Australian service will be "coming soon," according to Microsoft's announcement. Skype for Business Apps with Azure Integration. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Azure or maybe still have no idea what “the cloud” means, hopefully this post will shed some light as well as introduce new capabilities enabled by the Skype for Business platform to host and integrate Microsoft UC applications in the cloud.

Skype for Business Apps with Azure Integration

For the past decade, my colleagues and I have been developing line of business or add-on feature applications to the Microsoft UC platform, starting with Live Communication Server to Office Communications Server to Lync and now for Skype for Business. One of the most difficult situations that we are always faced with has to do with delivery and consumption of the application by a customer with dependencies requiring on-premise infrastructure. Those days are thankfully nearly over with the promise of cloud-based services. From a Microsoft perspective, Azure promised ease in deployment of new cloud-based applications, which was very exciting to developers overall. Staten7 sur Twitter : "#Skype for Business Apps with #Azure Integration. > no physical or virtual server required. #Avanade...

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Introduction to Application Gateway. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is an Azure-managed service similar to the Azure VPN Gateway. Application Gateway provides an Azure-managed HTTP load balancing solution based on IIS Application Request Routing (ARR). The application gateway service is highly available and metered. For the SLA and Pricing, please refer to the SLA and Pricing pages. Application Gateway currently supports layer 7 application delivery for the following: HTTP load balancing Cookie based session affinity SSL offload HTTP layer 7 load balancing. Named a Leader in Gartner’s Public Cloud Storage Services for Second Consecutive Year. Gartner research recently published their Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services and recognized Microsoft Azure as a leader for the second year in a row based on completeness of our vision and ability to execute.

This comes at the heel of recent independent research report by Nasuni where Azure Storage is recognized as the best performer in benchmark tests. Gartner’s report further substantiates Microsoft’s position as the only vendor named a leader across Gartner Magic Quadrants for IaaS, Application PaaS, and Cloud Storage. The amount of digital data produced each year is growing exponentially. According to IDC, by 2020 total digital data will be close to 40 Zetabytes (40,000,000PBs) and majority of it will be stored in cloud. Everything Microsoft sur Twitter : "Microsoft geared up to launch three 'hyper-scale' data centers in India by end of 2015...

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Office 365 ExpressRoute Office 365 ExpressRoute is coming, according to the Office 365 public roadmap, in the third quarter of 2015. For people that may already be consuming Azure cloud services, may already be aware of ExpressRoute. For those who don’t, ExpressRoute offers a private connection directly into Azure which means that you are not using the traditional site to site VPN. This can mean a faster connection, lower latency and higher security than the site to site VPN. ExpressRoute is a paid for service where there are no up front cost, no termination fees and you only pay for what you use. Event Hubs API App – fast and easy to do. Last evening I was working around a Logic Apps and I needed to send some messages to the EventHubs. We have two different options, we can use the API app HTTP Connector or we can decide to create and API app which able to do that, this is a good opportunity to understand the development productivity about API Apps.

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In aggregate, 10s of millions of credentials are exposed every month. Bad actors collect, sell, and share large lists of user account credentials from these breaches. Because 3 out of 4 users re-use credentials across multiple sites, there's a good chance that your users' credentials are in those lists. Damir dobric sur Twitter : "Integrating IoT with LogicApps... Microsoft Asia sur Twitter : "FREE webinar: #DevOps on #Azure – Configuration Management. Register Now: via @OpenForBizAPAC. Free Webinar: DevOps on Azure – Configuration Management. Why is configuration management an important aspect of the Agile software development life cycle today?

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Announcing Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Office 365. Announces Azure IoT Suite. Microsoft India sur Twitter : "#OpenSource devs, port your apps on #Azure. Join us for a chat today: #MSOpenness #Azure4Sure. Microsoft Openness Hour. Microsoft Asia sur Twitter : ".@BLACKCAPS: tackling high-fan traffic ahead with seamless migration to #Azure. New Zealand Cricket bolsters website capability with Microsoft cloud for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

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