Evan and Sujit have a fun discussion on how they use Azure for their personal and business lives.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode192.mp3

Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/6e8f1c133d

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/announcing-disaster-recovery-for-azure-iaas-vms-using-asr

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/database-scoped-global-temporary-tables-in-public-preview-for-azure-sql-db/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-event-grid-an-event-service-for-modern-applications

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-dynamic-site-acceleration

We talk to Saquib Rashid, a Microsoft App Dev Consultant and Mobile Developer who has developed the very popular NJ Train Helper app which leverages various features in Azure. We talk to Saquib about the evolution of this app and how he leveraged various Azure features to provide additional functionality in the Phone app.

Saquib's popular NJ Train Helper app: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/nj-train-helper/878e2210-5e4b-4256-ba2c-65b11f6c94ee

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode48.mp3

Apache Storm now on Azure

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-adds-apache-storm-analytics-processing-support-to-hadoop-on-azure-7000034711/

Reddogdowntime app for Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=fafc8f4c-c4d5-47af-8b63-788119f750b0

Microsoft Virtual Academy one-day session on Dev/Test in a Dev Ops world n October 20th - our very own Cale Teeter is one of the speakers.

Free registration http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/dev-test-scenarios-in-the-devops-world

The guys talks about 2 scenarios where customer have tried to use Azure in interesting ways and discuss some of the best practices in utilizing Azure in each case.

Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Podcast31.mp3

Links:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/vm-readiness-assessment/

The Virtual Machines Readiness Assessment tool will automatically inspect your on-premises environment, whether it is physical or virtualized, and provide you with a check list and detailed report on steps you need to take to move your environment to the cloud.

Microsoft ACE / Information Security and Risk Management team recommended practices for Azure-related commonly encountered (but tricky to get right) scenarios:

Newest Infiniband offering performance research.

Only AWS & MSFT are shown in the Gartner IaaS Top Quadrant per the latest report

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/27/persisting-connections-to-microsoft-azure-files.aspx

http://blog.brauwers.nl/2014/05/29/exposing-a-service-bus-topic-using-azure-api-management/