Cale, Cynthia, Evan, Kendall, and Sujit chat with Michael Zoller from Barracuda Networks about software defined wide area network and how it was built on Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode345.mp3

Resources:

Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation—now in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simplify-financial-reporting-with-cost-allocation-now-in-preview/

View your Azure Cache for Redis data in new Visual Studio Code extension

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/view-your-azure-cache-for-redis-data-in-new-visual-studio-code-extension/

Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/automatic-vm-guest-patching-now-in-preview/

Azure Marketplace: CloudGen WAN Service:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/barracudanetworks.barracuda_cloudgenwan?tab=Overview

Blog post CloudGen WAN:

https://blog.barracuda.com/2020/07/16/what-is-barracuda-cloudgen-wan/

Barracuda CloudGen WAN Announcement:

https://www.barracuda.com/news/article/810#.X1oEvYtS-Co

Barracuda main website:

https://www.barracuda.com/products/cloudgenwan?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=40855

Blog Post Microsoft: Yousef Khalidi Corporate Vice President, Azure Networking

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/running-sdwan-virtual-appliances-natively-in-azure-virtual-wan/

NVA-in-the-hub Announcement:

https://www.microsoft.com/azure/partners/videos/azure-networking-services

Barracuda Campus: technical documentation for CloudGen WAN

https://campus.barracuda.com/product/cloudgenwan/doc/91980633/overview

Dr. Reshmi Yandapalli, a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Networking group, helps us understand the Virtual WAN service. She provides an overview of Virtual WAN and gives use-cases when it should be considered.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode343.mp3

Resources:

Virtual WAN New Pricing Changes & Concepts 

Virtual WAN Routing Concepts 

How to configure routing 

Virtual WAN Routing Scenarios 

Virtual WAN Effective Routes 

Virtual WAN User VPN DNS configuration How-to 

FQDN Based Site Connectivity 

Custom BGP IP/APIPA Configuration 

Virtual WAN overview 

Virtual WAN FAQ 

Virtual WAN CPE Partners 

Azure Firewall in Virtual WAN

Other Recent helpful documentation updates

• Virtual WAN Monitoring 
• Virtual WAN Global Transit Architecture 
• SD-WAN Connectivity Architecture with Virtual WAN 
• Migrate to Virtual WAN 
• Leverage Virtual WAN for remote connectivity 
• Blog for Remote user efficiencies with Azure Virtual WAN 
• Multiple ISP and Azure path selection with Virtual WAN 
• ExpressRoute Encryption 
• Connect Virtual Network Gateway VPN with Virtual WAN

Other updates:

Advancing the outage experience—automation, communication, and transparency

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-the-outage-experience-automation-communication-and-transparency/

Build resilient applications with Kubernetes on Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-resilient-applications-with-kubernetes-on-azure/

PowerShell support in Durable Functions is in public preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/powershell-support-in-durable-functions-is-in-public-preview/

Serverless offer for Azure Cosmos DB now in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/serverless-offer-for-azure-cosmos-db-now-in-public-preview/

Public preview: CSI storage driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-csi-storage-driver-support-in-azure-kubernetes-service/

Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-share-inplace-sharing-for-azure-data-explorer-now-generally-available/

Senior Azure PM Sumeet Mittal does an awesome job explaining the brand new and hotly anticipated feature, Azure Private Link.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode302.mp3

Transcript:

Resources:

Blog:  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-private-link/

Product page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/private-link/

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/private-link/private-link-overview#availability

Other updates:

In the latest update of Azure DevOps, we've added user assignment-based billing. With this feature, the number of Basic or Basic + Test Plan licenses will change as you add or remove users. This means that you’ll only pay for the licenses you’re using. We’ve also added a new setting that lets you choose whether new users get full Basic access or limited/free Stakeholder access. See the list of new features for more information.

Managed instance, a deployment capability of Azure SQL Database, is transitioning from a manual to service-aided subnet configuration, now in preview.

SR-IOV availability schedule on NCv3 Virtual Machines SKU
Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
As part of Azure’s ongoing commitment to providing industry-leading performance, we are enabling support for all MPI types and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines, beginning with NCv3 coming in early November 2019. 
The upgrade WILL INVOLVE SERVER DOWNTIME on a regional basis and, if you intend to utilize the InfiniBand network using MPI, this REQUIRES AN UPDATE TO YOUR VMs. Please read the following post for full details. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/sr-iov-availability-schedule-on-ncv3-virtual-machines-sku/

Microsoft integrates OpenZeppelin Contracts into Microsoft Azure
https://blog.openzeppelin.com/microsoft-integrates-openzeppelin-contracts-into-microsoft-azure-vscode-plugin/

October 2019 unified Azure SDK preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/october-2019-unified-azure-sdk-preview/
Announcing the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-larger-more-powerful-standard-file-shares-for-azure-files/
Trusted Cloud: security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and IP
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/trusted-cloud-security-privacy-compliance-resiliency-and-ip/

The team celebrates the 300th episode by speaking with Albert Greenberg, the director of development for all of Azure Networking and someone who was around when Azure was just 5 clusters of servers.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode300.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/0fcb9185e4/?location=EUS2 

Updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-azure-private-link/

Evan and Sujit talk to Jared Ross, an Azure Consultant who specializes in Networking, Compliance and Security, on why customers should be aware of the network within Azure and tips on how to protect their resources.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode176.mp3

Yousef Khalidi's great 7-part blog post is Jared's recommended reading. The first part is listed below and you can follow along. 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-innovations-that-drive-the-cloud-disruption/

Another favorite is Olivier Martin https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-to-and-within-the-azure-cloud/

Other resources and updates:

https://thebitcoinnews.com/microsoft-drives-forward-with-the-blockchain-btcmanagers-week-in-review-april-24/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-time-series-insights/

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Time Series Insights, a fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that makes it incredibly simple to interactively and instantly explore and analyze billions of events from sources such as Internet of Things.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for .NET for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-management-libraries-for-net-generally-available-now

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for Java for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-management-libraries-for-net-generally-available-now/

Back in November, we announced the general availability of the Azure IoT Gateway SDK. We’ve already heard from a number of customers who are leveraging the open source Gateway SDK to connect their legacy devices or run analytics at the edge of their network. It’s great to see quick adoption! With the Gateway SDK’s modular architecture, developers can also program their own custom modules to perform specific actions. Thanks to its flexible design, you can create these modules in your preferred language – Node.js, Java, C#, or C. (NuGet, Maven etc. packages)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-gateway-sdk-packages

Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Today, we are pleased to announce the addition of a new in-built role, Billing Reader role. The new Billing Reader role allows you to delegate access to just billing information with no access to services such as VMs and storage accounts. Users in this role can perform Azure billing management operations such as viewing subscription scoped cost reporting data and downloading invoices. Also, today we are releasing the public preview of a new billing API that will allow you to programmatically download subscription’s billing invoices.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-billing-reader-role-and-preview-of-invoice-api/

We run through all the latest Networking feature updates to Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode51.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-scale-get-started/

• AzCopy 3.0 is now GA:
• AzCopy 4.0.0-preview also includes copying Azure Files, exporting table entities to local files or to azure storage block blobs, and importing the data back to a storage table. 

Full-length Tech Ed Europe Session on Networking updates with demos etc.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B227