We talk to Robin Shahan and Michael Collier, the authors of a new free eBook on the Fundamentals of Azure. Besides being Azure MVPs, Michael is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and Robin has her own consulting company Nightbird Consulting where she provides training and helps companies architect and develop effecient solutions using the Azure platform.

Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode68.mp3

Download the free book here: http://aka.ms/fundamentalsofazure

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Robin can be found on Twitter as @RobinDotNet, and you can read her articles about Azure (and other subjects) at http://robindotnet.wordpress.com

·        Michael's Blog: http://www.michaelscollier.com

·        Twitter: @MichaelCollier

Cale and Sujit talk to Pranav Rastogi who is a Program Manager for the Redis Cache Service.

Media File:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode67.mp3 

Azure Cache info:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cache/

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937 

Cloud and Enterprise Symbol Set v2.08

The Azure Symbol Set is now the updated and expanded Cloud and Enterprise Symbols.

Some cool demo scenarios w/ Barracuda that recently came out – videos look good and useful  

Deploying Multi-Tier Architecture in Azure, 

                1. Overview -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B27WqIbbfw

                2. Demo :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMkZyhhl28

Publishing and Securing your Sharepoint Application 

1. Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJcmmLGV_o
2. Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QDRFaU02o

Securing High Business Impact (HBI) Applications in Azure 

                1. Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Asqg1rV-UY

                2. Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyd-l8z6gYM

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/26/sunny-and-swarmy-in-azure

Docker Machine, Swarm and Compose capabilities released to Beta.

https://msopentech.com/blog/2014/11/07/creating-asp-net-vnext-docker-container-using-mono-2/

 Running ASP.Net vNext in Docker on Linux

New Azure Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

Delivered via Platform Installer. Called Azure Readiness Content

Evan and Sujit get into a discussion on implementing a Gatekeeper pattern to allow custom software running in VMs to be 'always on'.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode66.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/24/announcing-latest-version-of-azure-sql-database-now-ga-in-asia-improvements-to-disaster-recovery-objectives-2/

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/25/limit-the-exposure-of-sensitive-data-in-azure-sql-database-using-dynamic-data-masking/

Power GUI : http://software.dell.com/products/powergui-freeware/

Evan and Sujit talk to Nick Burling who is VP of Product Management at Blue Stripe Software http://bluestripe.com a Microsoft Gold Partner that builds products to support and monitor Azure deployments.

Nick shares his views on the adoption of Azure, some of the challenges that companies face in moving to the cloud and the surprising success of Azure Pack.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode65.mp3

White paper from Blue Stripe on monitoring Azure Pack. 

http://bluestripe.com/whitepapers/application-monitoring-inside-windows-azure-pack/

The guys talk to Dave Voyles who is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. In his travels, Dave spends time with Game Developers to help them leverage various Microsoft technologies including using Azure. We talk to him about some of the use-cases for Azure in gaming and some future trends in gaming.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode64.mp3

@DaveVoyles

www.DaveVoyles.com

GameSparks

Prime[31] Azure plugin

David Crook who is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Azure at Microsoft talks to use about the world of Startups and Students and how they use Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode63.mp3

@DavidCrook1988

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dave_crooks_dev_blog/

We are fortunate to have Marc van Eijk and Hans Vredevoort, both Azure MVPs, on the show to talk about Azure Pack. Both Marc and Hans focus on Hyper-V and Azure Pack and are very active bloggers and speakers in this space.

Blog

http://www.hyper-v.nu

Azure Pack blogs on Hyper-V.nu 

http://www.hyper-v.nu/?s=azure+pack

Azure Pack Wiki 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20689.the-azure-pack-wiki-wapack.aspx

MVP Profile

http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/MVP/Hans%20Vredevoort-4025255

http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Marc%20van%20Eijk-5000465

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode62.mp3

Azure Pack details:https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx

We talk to Jeff Irwin, a Senior PM in the Azure Storage team about some of the common things to watch for when using Blobs, Queues and Tables so that you get the maximum performance.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode61.mp3

Storage Performance Checklist:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-performance-checklist/

We talk to Danny Garber, a Media Services specialist at Microsoft and he gives us all the low-down on this little-understood Azure service that has grown to serve the Sochi Olympics live.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode60.mp3

Azure Media Services (General Info, Docs etc.): http://azure.com/media

Blog: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/topics/media-services/

Case studies for Azure Media Services including the 2014 Sochi Games http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/02/06/going-for-gold-windows-azure-media-services-provide-live-and-on-demand-streaming-of-2014-olympic-winter-games-on-nbc/

• The US broadcaster NBC and their Sports division’s Live and On Demand content via an app called “LiveExtra” (http://stream.nbcsports.com/liveextra/)
  
• Blinkbox (http://www.blinkbox.com) the OTT video on demand provider in the UK
  
• NASCAR and their wide array of car and motorbike racing at http://www.fanschoice.tv
  
• FujiTV’s “NextSmart” Service in Japan which streams all kinds of programming including F1 motor car racing - http://ch.nicovideo.jp/fujinextsmart
  
• Das Erste public broadcasting in Germany  (which has an app in the Windows 8 App Store in Germany - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/de-de/app/5cf1d640-0f00-41ba-967f-73168da01827
  

We talk to special guest Dmitry Lyalin who is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Visual Studio team about the current state and future plans for VS in the Azure space.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode59.mp3

http://www.lyalin.com/

Visual Studio 2015 Preview

http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2015-preview-vs 

Announcing Azure SDK 2.5 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 Preview 

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/12/announcing-azure-sdk-2-5-for-net-and-visual-studio-2015-preview/

Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/announcing-net-2015-preview-a-new-era-for-net.aspx 

Connect(); Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure 

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014