Episode 117 - Migrating Sharepoint to Azure

We have a nice technical chat with Brian Laws, a Cloud Architect with Summit 7 Systems, about how he migrated Sharepoint for a major customer to Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode117.mp3

Introducing the CloudPro: http://summit7systems.com/introducing-the-cloudpro/

Performance Impact of Premium Storage on Microsoft Azure: http://summit7systems.com/the-performance-impact-of-premium-storage-in-microsoft-azure/

Other updates:

New hybrid offerings deliver bottomless capacity for today's data explosion
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-s-new-hybrid-offerings-deliver-bottomless-capacity-to-manage-today-s-data-explosion/

Azure Search introduces new lower cost tier in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-search-introduces-new-lower-cost-tier-in-preview/

Announcing general availability of the StorSimple Virtual Array
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-the-storsimple-virtual-array/

Anatomy of a breach: How hackers break in
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/anatomy-of-a-breach-how-hackers-break-in/

Microsoft first global CSP to receive the Cloud Security Mark (Gold) accreditation
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-first-global-csp-to-receive-the-cloud-security-mark-gold-accreditation/

Guidance for running Elasticsearch on Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/elasticsearch-on-azure-guidance/

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/03/01/microsoft-announces-windows-defender-advanced-threat-protection-for-enterprise-customers/