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Windows Azure NewsMay 2015

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Azure Logic Apps and Azure API AppsPart of the new fully managed iPaaS offering in Azure 

First Look at Azure Logic AppsLee Simpson & Dan Toomey

Presenter for June

Integration features you probably didn’t know existed in Service BusThink you know Service Bus? You might find some suprises in this presentation originally given by Dan Rosanova @ #IntegrationMonday 

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Service BusDan Toomey

Presenter for July

updates

Azure Operational Insights generally available

Azure Operational Insights, now available as part of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite, is an analysis service designed to give IT administrators deep insight into their on-premises and cloud environments. It also allows you to interact with real-time and historical machine data for rapid development of custom insights, while providing Microsoft- and community-developed patterns for data analysis.

Pricing | Operational Insights webpage

Platform

Azure ExpressRoute Premium add-on package generally available

For Azure ExpressRoute customers who require a large number of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes, global connectivity, or more Azure Virtual Network (VNet) links per circuit, we’ve introduced the ExpressRoute Premium add-on package. This add-on can be applied over the ExpressRoute Network Service Provider or Exchange Provider circuits, increasing the limit for public and private peering from 4,000 to 10,000 routes.Pricing | ExpressRoute webpage

Platform

Cloud App Discovery generally available

- Cloud App Discovery, a module of Azure Active Directory Premium- Can provide your IT department with visibility into all your organization’s business and consumer cloud apps. - That makes it easier than ever to discover shadow IT in your organization including details on usage patterns and any users accessing your cloud applications.

Platform

Azure DNS in public preview

Azure Domain Name System (DNS) allows you to host your domains alongside your Azure apps.

Pricing | Azure DNS webpage

Platform

Multiple VIPs per Cloud Service

Now you can get more than one load-balanced public IP address assigned to a set of virtual machines (VMs), enabling high-availability and high-scale scenarios

Load Balancer webpage

Platform

Azure Standard VPN Gateway We’ve announced a new Azure Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway that allows you to connect your VNet via both ExpressRoute and site-to-site VPN.

It also provides higher throughput for ExpressRoute than the current dynamic routing VPN gateway

Pricing | VPN Devices documentation webpage

Platform

Service Fabric Supports creating both stateless and stateful microservices

Provides the benefits of orchestration and automation and app awareness and insight.

API

Visual Studio Application Insights in public preview Development teams can gain insights into the performance, availability, and usage of their server, web, and mobile applications using Visual Studio Application Insights, which is now available in public preview

Pricing | Application Insights webpage

API

 Oracle Database Enterprise Edition price reduced

Now deploying Oracle databases in Azure can be even more cost-effective. Beginning with subscription billing cycles starting on or after May 1, 2015, the price for Windows-based virtual machines (VMs) that include licensing for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition will be reduced by 15%–20%.

Pricing | Virtual Machines webpage

Data

 Elastic-database pool (previously Elastic Scale)

Now instead of overprovisioning to meet peak demand, you can allow hundreds or even thousands of databases within an elastic-database pool to spike and dynamically consume resources within a prescribed budget.

Data

Transparent Data Encryption for Azure SQL Database in public preview

Transparent Data Encryption for Azure SQL Database brings the trusted encryption technology found in SQL Server to the latest version of SQL Database (V12), encrypting your database at rest to help further protect against the threat of malicious activity. Transparent Data Encryption performs real-time encryption and decryption of your database, associated backups, and transaction log files.

Transparent Data Encryption documentation webpage

Data

events

• Learn about Microsoft’s commitment to Australian cloud customers

• Hear about the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

BrisbaneMonday, 25th May 20152:00 – 2:30pm registration2:00 – 4:30pm session

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032623741&Culture=en-AU&community=0

giveaways

1-month / $100 Free Azure Access – no credit card req’d

1. Register at this site: http://tinyurl.com/azure-pass-brisbane 2. Provide us with your email address3. We will issue you a coupon code4. Redeem the code at: http://microsoftazurepass.com

Azure Pass

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