by Sujit D'Mello
February 19, 2015
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/
by Sujit D'Mello
February 11, 2015
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
by Sujit D'Mello
February 6, 2015
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/
by Cale Teeter
January 29, 2015
by Sujit D'Mello
January 23, 2015
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/
by Cale Teeter
January 14, 2015
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/
by Evan Basalik
January 9, 2015
by Sujit D'Mello
December 24, 2014
We talk to Santosh Balasubramaniam, A Senior PM in the Azure Stream Analytics team on the new service that is currently in Preview.
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode58.mp3
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream-analytics/
Also see Santosh give a detailed demo of Stream Analytics here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/stream-analytics-introduction/
by Evan Basalik
December 17, 2014
by Sujit D'Mello
December 12, 2014
The guys re-visit the topic of Backing up your files, folders and other on-premises data to Azure.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode56.mp3
Nov 14 - Available in Australia
Retain data for up to 9 years was 120 days
SCDPM to backup VM to Azure:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2014/09/04/azure-iaas-workload-protection-using-data-protection-manager.aspx
Backup of Azure Storage (Table, Blobs & Queues) - Cmdlets, community apps available.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/remoteapp/ RemoteApp going GA
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/09/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-azure-government/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2856052/grueling-endurance-test-blows-away-ssd-durability-fears.html
We’ve announced the general availability of several features, including Live Channels for Azure Media Services and High-Performance VPN gateway. Plus, a new SQL Database (including a new Standard tier performance level) and Premium Storage are now in public preview. Related pricing changes have also been announced.
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