This week in Azure - March 7, 2016
Platform Updates
Wednesday
- Sharath Suryanarayan announced the general availability of the StorSimple Virtual Array for Enterprise Agreement customers of Microsoft Azure
- Liam Cavanagh announced a new lower-cost tier for Azure Search - Basic which is currently in preview
- Alex Simons announced that Azure AD Identity protection is in public preview
Thursday
From Community
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- Background business – Azure Worker role Vs Web Job from kloud
- Cloud Cushioning using Azure Queues from kloud
- Making the Right Identity Choices for Azure AD and Office 365 from Gartner Blog Network
- Provisioning Always Encrypted in SQL Databases with Azure Key Vault, using SSMS 2016 from Thuru's blog
Customer Stories
- Vittoria Assicurazioni (Insurance from Italy) adopted Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 as part of its cloud-based solution.
- United Nations Development Programme (Nonprofit from Nepal) revolutionizes the entire global response to disasters using Microsoft products, including Azure.
- Sustainalytics (Investment Reasearch from Romania) adopted a broad range of Microsoft Azure services for processing and integrating a large volume of structured and unstructured, high and low-velocity data as part of its research activity.
- Alma TV (Media from Kazakhstan) has choosen Microsoft Azure SQL Database to provide data warehousing services for information received.
Events
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- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
- March 9th – AzureDay Poland
- March 30th – BUILD 2016
- April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
- September 26 – Microsoft Ignite 2016
Tomek & Mirek