by Sujit D'Mello
June 4, 2014
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/