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February Azure Newsletter


Azure Newsletter - Feb 08, 2018
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Avoid the cyber standoff: how to protect yourself from ransomware attacks
Did you know that a ransomware attack occurs every 40 seconds? Access this infographic for statistics about ransomware and key steps you can take to protect your company's data.

Access this infographic
 
 
   
 
New Alerts (preview) in Azure monitoring services
With Azure monitoring services, set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, app, and platform. Given how integral it is to the monitoring experience, we've launched a new user interface to create and manage alerts for any resource from a single location in the Monitor blade in the Azure portal. Learn more about the new alerts experience in our blog post.

blog  post
 
Azure Search: better performance and scale features
New paid Azure Search subscriptions in select regions are powered by machines with significantly higher performance. The machines offer as much as double the performance at no additional cost. With this update, limits on document count are removed. Learn more about this offer.
 
Azure Search: new enterprise security features
Two new features have expanded enterprise security capabilities in Azure Search. The encryption feature automatically encrypts your data prior to persisting to storage and decrypts it prior to retrieval. The security trimming feature lets administrators configure Search with a greater level of security and use technologies like Azure Active Directory to define groups and roles, which are then matched to user privileges to determine what content users can search and view.
 
Azure Cosmos DB: Azure Functions integration in Visual Studio generally available
Visual Studio has a native integration to consume Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed functionality using Azure Functions. It's easier now to develop and debug an Azure function locally that's consuming Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed on Azure. See an end-to-end working example and learn more in this video.
 
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API generally available
This release provides improved performance and reduced latency with the use of third-party Gremlin connectors, support for Python and PHP platforms, and a preview of a .NET library for performant bulk import operations. Learn more on the Azure Blog.
 
Azure Cosmos DB: lower initial price point available for unlimited collections
In February 2017, we lowered the entry point for unlimited containers, making the cost much more efficient. Later, in December 2017, we announced that unlimited containers had an entry point that's even more cost effective. Instead of provisioning 2,500 request units per second (RU/sec) as a minimum, you can now provision an unlimited collection at 1,000 RU/sec and scale in increments of 100 RU/sec. With unlimited containers (collections), dynamically scale your provisioning from as low as 1,000 RU/sec to millions of RU/sec with no limit on storage consumption.
 
Azure Cosmos DB now available in France
Currently open to all customers and partners worldwide, Azure Cosmos DB is now a part of the Azure preview in France, letting you deploy services and test workloads against Azure Cosmos DB in the latest Azure regions. Azure Cosmos DB offers the same enterprise-grade reliability and performance with the industry-leading comprehensive service-level agreements (SLAs) to support the mission-critical apps and workloads of businesses and organizations in France. Sign up for the Azure France preview.
 
Azure Friday: Apache Spark Connector for Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Friday's Scott Hanselman learns about Azure Cosmos DB Spark Connector, which enables Azure Cosmos DB to act as an input source or output sink for Apache Spark jobs. Watch now.

Watch now
 
Zone-redundant storage in preview in Azure Storage
Zone-redundant storage stores three replicas of data synchronously across multiple availability zones (fault-isolated groups of datacenters). It's initially available in East US 2, Central US, North Europe, and France Central and will require a General Purpose v2 account. The existing offering will be renamed "zone-redundant storage classic" (or "ZRS classic"). If you're using the classic version, you'll be provided an automated update path once zone-redundant storage becomes available in your region. Find out more on the Azure Blog.
 
Azure Event Grid generally available
Azure Event Grid is a fully managed, highly scalable event routing service that simplifies the development of event-based apps. Here are a few features added in this release: richer serverless, ops automation, and integration scenarios enabled through integration with more services; availability in more regions; increased reliability and service-level agreement (SLA); and better developer productivity. Read more on the Azure Blog.
 
 
   
  Webinars  
 
 
Building event-driven applications using serverless architectures
February 13, 2018
10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8)
   
Build real-time personalized experiences with AI and serverless technology
February 20, 2018
10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8)
   
Filter content at scale with Microsoft Cognitive Services
February 21, 2018
1:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC-8)
 
Unlock new ways to automate and manage Azure resources with Ansible
February 22, 2018
1:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC-8)
   
 
Adding analytics and AI to your IoT devices with Azure IoT Edge
February 28, 2018
1:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC-8)
   
 
Accelerate innovation with Microsoft Azure Databricks
On demand
 
IT Expert Roundtable: Machine Learning Server improves data quality
On demand
   
 
IT Expert RoundTable: Using Azure Data Lake for advanced analytics
On demand
   
 
Start your cloud journey with Azure Government
On demand
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Learn Azure infrastructure in under an hour
Watch a short video and try hands-on demos to learn how you can seamlessly manage your infrastructure in the cloud with Azure. Then take a guided learning path with free Pluralsight courses for skills you can immediately apply to your job.

Azure Infrastructure
 
 
   
 
Six cloud data challenges solved for app developers
You've told us that help on your next project is more important than coverage of a tool or platform. To that end, we've created a new interactive experience that dives into common data issues facing cloud devs, including ensuring app security and compliance, building multitenant software as a service (SaaS) apps, real-time personalization at a global scale, and how to best integrate advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.

a new interactive experience
 
Build your cloud skills with the latest in Azure
Register today for Microsoft Tech Summit, a free technical learning event for IT professionals and developers coming to a city near you. Discover the latest trends, tools, and product roadmaps at more than 80 sessions, and meet with the experts who build and run Microsoft cloud services. Get inspired, deepen your expertise, and learn how to help lead your organization through real digital transformation. Find a free event near you.

Find a free event
 
Course: Hybrid Cloud Workload Protection with Azure Security Center
If you're interested in enhancing security at your organization, look to Azure Security Center for help. In this free on-demand course, expert instructors start with an overview of Security Center and how it can help detect and alert you to security incidents. They examine the differences in the threat landscape between cloud or hybrid environments versus on-premises, and they show you how to deploy the service and keep it secure. Learn about onboarding, implementing security policies, and just-in-time virtual machine access. Find out about troubleshooting and explore next steps.
 
Course: Enabling Data Source Discovery with Azure Data Catalog
In this free, self-paced course from edX, you'll learn about Azure Data Catalog and how it lets enterprises achieve a focused business impact by discovering and connecting to diverse data assets and by enabling self-service data source discovery. Beginning with an overview of Data Catalog and what it can do, you'll then explore adopting and creating a data catalog. See how Data Catalog delivers a serverless metadata repository that can empower your organization to get more value from its existing data sources.
 
Course: Automating Azure Workloads
Azure Automation can help you successfully automate manual, long-running, error-prone, and frequently repeated administrative tasks. This free, self-paced course shows you how. Learn how to automate operational and management tasks in Azure to save time, increase reliability, and improve consistency and accuracy using technologies such as Desired State Configuration, Azure Resource Manager templates, and runbooks integrated with Automation. Sign up for the course.
 
Course: Go Serverless with Azure Functions and C# (.NET Conf 2017)
Watch this session from .NET Conf 2017 for an exploration of serverless computing. Find out how Azure Functions—the serverless compute offering from Microsoft—automatically scales up and down based on the number of incoming events. It also helps you build .NET apps faster than ever while lowering your costs. Discover how easy it is to author C# functions in Visual Studio and how to run, debug, and trigger on events in Azure from Visual Studio. Much more is offered in this demo-rich session—don't miss it!
 
Case study: Serverless in Supply Chain—introduction and architectural overview
See how Microsoft devs migrated their business-to-business (B2B) integration platform from on-premises servers to Azure serverless architecture using Azure API Management, Azure Functions, and more. Follow along and build your own proof of concept using a step-by-step tutorial.

See how
 
Case study: Using Azure API management for B2B partner integration
Learn how to use Azure API Management for business-to-business (B2B) integration with Azure products. Watch how partners are onboarded and use the Developer Portal.

Learn how to use Azure API Management
 
Case study: Using Azure AD for authentication and authorization
Watch the Serverless in Supply Chain series to find out how a team at Microsoft uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to onboard their partners and how they've configured partner apps to customize roles and access levels for everyone.

Watch the Serverless in Supply Chain series
 
Case study: Serverless in Supply Chain—business-to-business integration layer walkthrough
In this episode, find out how a message flows from external partners through the API gateway, and to the API app using Azure Active Directory, Azure Traffic Manager, and the API Apps feature of Azure App Service.

this episode
 
Case study: Azure Data Lake connects supply chain data for advanced analytics
Our Microsoft supply chain engineering team brought disparate supply chain data into a centralized, big data architecture on Azure Data Lake for advanced analytics and data-driven decision making. Learn more in this technical case study.

technical case study
 
Case study: Microsoft weeds out fake marketing leads with Machine Learning Server
Learn how we eliminate fake marketing leads and prioritize good leads with Machine Learning Server to better connect potential customers.

Learn how we eliminate fake marketing leads
 
 
   
   
Be entertained
 
Cloud Tweaks
*Comic source: https://cloudtweaks.com/humor/. Reprinted with permission.
 
 
   
   
Be inspired
 
Polycom  
Videoconferencing leader creates innovative interoperability bridge in the cloud
Beginning with its innovative speakerphone in 1990, Polycom has been a leading force in video, voice, and content collaboration for 25 years. It recently introduced Polycom RealConnect for Office 365, which allows diverse videoconferencing endpoints to participate in Skype for Business Online calls. With Azure, Polycom slashed development time by half and can scale RealConnect instantly, deploy it globally, and refresh it continuously.
Learn more
 
 
Finning  
Finning uses Azure to improve employee engagement, onboarding, reduce costs
Finning, one of the world's largest dealers of Caterpillar heavy equipment, chose to deploy Azure Active Directory as part of a broader digital transformation that will help streamline IT and promote agility.
Learn more
 
 
   
   
Be enhanced
Partners
 
alteryx  
Discover deeper insights from your data faster with self-service analytics
What do you get when you combine a quick-to-implement, self-service data analytics platform that breaks the barriers to data insights with the flexibility and scalability of Azure? Deeper business insights, faster. Easily discover, prepare, blend, and analyze data from a multitude of sources—including Azure and SQL Server—to drive better data-driven decisions, and more insightful visualizations in Microsoft Power BI. Download your free Alteryx Starter Kit for Microsoft for more "data-ha!" moments, faster.
Download Starter Kit
 
 
Project Hosts  
Healthcare Security Envelope on Azure
Project Hosts' A6 Security Envelope on Azure has earned Certified status for Information Security by HITRUST Alliance. With this status, Project Hosts' Security Envelope meets key healthcare regulations and requirements for securing sensitive healthcare information. Apps and workloads deployed in Project Hosts' A6 Security Envelope inherit all the HIPAA and HITRUST security controls implemented in the environment at the software as a service (SaaS)-level.
Learn more
 
Azure Marketplace
 
Zerto  
Featured: Zerto: Move from backup and recovery to IT resilience
Protect your private cloud infrastructure by quickly deploying disaster recovery in Azure with enterprise-class Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR). Zerto helps create hybrid cloud environments by integrating your on-premises infrastructure with public clouds. ZVR is hardware- and hypervisor-agnostic enabling replication and orchestration from VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments to Azure.
Visit Marketplace page
 
 
Mesosphere  
New: Accelerate time to market, save money, and deliver resilient and secure infrastructure with Mesosphere
Mesosphere is a premier platform for modern apps and data services. It enables digital transformation for organizations looking to ship apps more quickly, capture value from real-time data, modernize infrastructure or run an entire IT stack in multiple clouds with a consistent operating model and low costs.
Visit Marketplace page
 
Red Hat Ansible Tower  
Test Drive: Scale IT automation with Ansible Tower
Red Hat Ansible Tower helps organizations scale IT automation and manage complex deployments across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Red Hat Ansible Tower includes capabilities that provide additional levels of visibility, control, security, and efficiency necessary for today's enterprises.
Test drive
 
 
 
 
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