The team celebrates the 300th episode by speaking with Albert Greenberg, the director of development for all of Azure Networking and someone who was around when Azure was just 5 clusters of servers.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode300.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/0fcb9185e4/?location=EUS2 

Updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-azure-private-link/

Harold Wong, a Principal Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering team, gives us the scoop on the popular Azure Redhat OpenShift service (ARO) which gives customers a fully managed OpenShift cluster in Azure. He gives us use-cases for this service as well as tips and advice on moving to ARO.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode299.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/9aeef77764/?location=EUS2

Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/openshift/

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-storage-explorer-1-10-0/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-swift-extend-partnership-to-make-native-payments-a-reality/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/12-tb-vms-expanded-sap-partnership-on-blockchain-azure-monitor-for-sap-solutions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-preview-of-direct-upload-to-azure-managed-disks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-recommendations-keep-you-on-the-right-track/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/analyze-and-visualize-your-data-with-azure-cosmos-db-notebooks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/windows-virtual-desktop-is-now-generally-available-worldwide/

Senior Azure Storage PM Art Khlobystin talks to Cynthia, Evan and Sujit about the new HA/DR features in Azure Storage.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode298.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/45e0433f0c/?location=EUS2

Towards the end of the show, Art briefly talks about the new upcoming Object Replication Service which would give customers the flexibility of replicating data across any regions of choice and not just the paired regions. He asks for any feedback/questions to be send to his email artek@microsoft.com or you can post to our Twitter handle @AzurePodcast and we will route it to the team. Thank you!

Other updates:

Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content.

Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-advisor-alerts-are-now-in-preview/>

Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-video-indexer-multilingual-identification-and-transcription/

Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-video-indexer-animated-character-detection/

Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now generally available. This enables administrators to easily manage their HDInsight clusters using simple Azure CLI commands.

Matt Small talks to the team about KeyVault and talks about use cases and some common problems customers see.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode297.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/5927fd922a/?location=EUS2

Matt's Blog: https://azidentity.azurewebsites.net

Other updates:

Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-files-premium-tier-gets-zone-redundant-storage/

Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-user-delegation-sas-tokens-preview-for-azure-storage-blobs/

Azure Sphere is a set of hardware, software, and cloud services that provide an security and management platform for the IOT ecosystem.  In this episode, the Josh Nash, the Principal Product Planner walks us through the platform concepts, the components, and how customers and partners are leveraging this.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode296.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/fdcd8c138e/?location=EUS2

Building cloud-native applications with Azure and HashiCorp
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-cloud-native-applications-with-azure-and-hashicorp/

Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-available-from-new-cloud-regions-in-germany/

Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-acquires-movere-to-help-customers-unlock-cloud-innovation-with-seamless-migration-tools/

Microsoft’s connected vehicle platform presence at IAA, the Frankfurt Auto Show
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-s-connected-vehicle-platform-presence-at-iaa-the-frankfurt-auto-show/

Satellite connectivity expands reach of Azure ExpressRoute across the globe
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/satellite-connectivity-expands-reach-of-azure-expressroute-across-the-globe/

Azure Backup PM Geetha Lakshmi gives us a great update on the Backup Service. She gives us a refresher and focuses on the many new features in the Restore process that make it faster and easier for customers to get files recovered.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode295.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/82c61e28cf/?location=EUS2

Other updates:

https://azurecosmosdb.github.io/CosmicNotes/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/microsoft-azure-available-from-new-cloud-regions-in-switzerland/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-factory-mapping-data-flows-adds-sql-scripts-to-sink-transformation/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-variable-retention-preview/

Microsoft and Qualcomm accelerate AI with Vision AI Developer Kit
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-qualcomm-accelerate-ai-with-vision-ai-developer-kit/

Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-updates-august-2019/

Shaloo Garg, a Managing Director in Microsoft Startups, explains to us how Startups can leverage valuable technical and business resources from Microsoft to help make them successful in the marketplace.

Resources:

https://Startups.microsoft.com
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode294.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/c101319a3b/?location=EUS2

Other updates:

Now available is a set of APIs that primarily helps increase efficiency in copying data from any URL to Azure or inside Azure. The APIs include:
• Put Block From URL
• Put Page From URL
• Append Block From URL
These APIs enable server-side synchronous copy of data from any URL source into either a block blob, page blob or as an append blob. The benefits of these APIs include:
• Server-side data transfer. The data transfer is performed server-side, meaning the data is read directly from the source by the destination server in Azure. The data is not flowing through the caller, so you do not need a VM with CPU, memory and network capacity to move the data. You can get away with using a relatively small VM that just orchestrate the data transfer.
• Synchronous data transfer.  Each call is performed synchronously, meaning the data transfer is complete when the call returns. This is unlike the existing asynchronous cross-account copy blob API, which is a scheduled background process where you need to regularly check if its complete.
• Any data source. The data source can be any data addressable by a URL, meaning you can copy data from inside or outside of Azure. Further it can be from any blob type to any blob, e.g. reading from a page blob and writing to a block blob.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-copy-apis-for-efficient-data-copy/>

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-SQL-Database/Unified-Azure-SQL-experience/ba-p/815368

Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.

Faith Xu, a Senior PM in the Microsoft ML Platform team, brings us up to speed on the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) specification and it's associated Runtime which can be used for running interoperable ML models in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode293.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/77672a62af/?location=EUS2

Resources:

ONNX: https://github.com/onnx/onnx
ONNX Runtime: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime
ONNX Tutorials: https://github.com/onnx/tutorials
ONNX Runtime Tutorials: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime#examples-and-tutorials
ONNX Converters: https://github.com/onnx/onnxmltools/tree/master/onnxmltools
ONNX Ecosystem Docker Image: https://github.com/onnx/onnx-docker/tree/master/onnx-ecosystem
ONNX Runtime in AzureML: https://aka.ms/onnxnotebooks

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availablility-of-managed-identity-for-linux-in-app-service-and-functions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-of-user-assigned-managed-identities-for-app-service-and-azure-functions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/update-to-azure-sql-database-serverless-increases-compute-scale-limits-by-4x/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-ultra-disk-storage/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-resource-manager-arm-application-and-service-deployment-is-now-ga/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-managed-identity-for-azure-service-fabric-applications/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-powershell-scripts-available-for-azure-monitor-logs-query-and-data-collection/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/updates/new-tool-for-automating-load-testing-of-power-bi-embedded-capacities-now-available/

Veteran guest of the show, Logic Apps Lead PM Kevin Lam is back to talk about their latest offering, Logic Apps ISE. He gives us the low-down on the unique features of this offering and when it makes sense to use it and off course, tips and tricks on how to use it.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode292.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/37d7ca1e9d/?location=EUS2

Other updates:

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) service is now available for preview in the Azure Goverment (Fairfax, VA) region.

We're excited to announce that IoT Edge support in Azure DevOps Project and Azure Pipelines is generally available. Developers can easily set up CI/CD pipelines for IoT Edge projects with best practices.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools

Service Tag Discovery API is in preview. It's now possible to programmatically retrieve global IP address information for Azure and its services using the Discovery API.

Announcing new AMD EPYC™-based Azure Virtual Machine
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-epyc-based-azure-virtual-machines/

Your single source for Azure best practices
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/your-single-source-for-azure-best-practices/

New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-for-developers-azure-cosmos-db-net-sdk-v3-now-available/

Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-azure-actions-for-github/

Cale, Cynthia, Kendall, and Russell speak with Senior PM Stephanie Krieger on what Azure Data Box Edge is, how we can get our hands on one, and some use cases that have been utilizing the computing powers at the intelligent edge.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode291.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/dbdfaaaf3e/?location=EUS2

Resources

• Here is the link to the Intelligent Edge Patterns site that has the code and architecture for the retail out-of-stock (void detection) scenario
• Here is the link to the brief Olympus video about exploring AI on the Edge with Data Box Edge
• Data Box Edge technical docs

Other updates:

Azure Dedicated Host in Preview - A new Azure service that provides physical servers that host one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organization and workloads.

Network security group improvements—ICMP support and override default Azure platform considerations

Cross-tenant management is now supported in Azure Security Center
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/security-center-cross-tenant-management 

Moving your VMware resources to Azure is easier than ever
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/moving-your-vmware-resources-to-azure-is-easier-than-ever/

We’re making Azure Archive Storage better with new lower pricing
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/we-re-making-azure-archive-storage-better-with-new-lower-pricing/

Improved developer experience for Azure Blockchain development kit
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improved-developer-experience-for-azure-blockchain-development-kit/

Introducing Azure Dedicated Host
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ blog/introducing-azure-dedicated-host/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/samples/azure-intelligent-edge-patterns/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/us-partner-blog/2019/07/24/mill5-and-olympus-use-azure-data-box-edge-to-expedite-ai-innovation-in-healthcare/