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Microsoft Azure NewsMarch 2015

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Azure region Release status of V12

Central US General availability

East US General availability

East US 2 General availability

North Central US General availability

South Central US General availability

West US General availability

North Europe General availability

West Europe General availability

East Asia General availability

Southeast Asia General availability

Japan East General availability

Japan West General availability

Brazil South Not available; general availability planned for Q3 2015

Australia East Public preview; general availability planned for Q2 2015

Australia Southeast Public preview; general availability planned for Q2 2015

Azure Machine Learning generally available http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

• Offers cloud-based advanced analytics designed to simplify and streamline machine learning for business.

• Create models with algorithms from

• Xbox & Bing,

• R or Python packages,

• Custom R or Python code.

• Monetize by publishing to the Machine Learning Marketplace

• April 1, 2015 automatic subscription conversion to Standard version

• Search-as-a-Service

• Support for more than 50 languages

• Indexers load from Azure DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

• April 8th, 2015

• Available in three standard performance tiers: S1, S2 & S3

• Rich queries with familiar SQL & JavaScript syntax

• Write optimised with automatic indexing

• Multi-document transactions

• Tunable consistency levels

Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services in public preview http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/05/introducing-premium-encoding-in-azure-media-services/

• New and advanced encoding capabilities

• Support for:• MXF and DVCPRO formats

• 4K AVC

• multilanguage audio

• closed captioning

• deinterlacing

• color conversion

• Accessible through the Azure Media Services Explorer desktop tool.

Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements (February Update)http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/02/announcing-azure-preview-portal-improvements-february-update/

• Improved Portal interactions• Keyboard shortcuts

• New (and simpler) startup experience

• Added Minimize command to all blades

• Improvements in Browse

• Maximized blades only scroll vertically

• Simpler default startboard

• New setting: disable animations

• Show value of chart in X axis on hover

• More resources implementing the Essentials pattern

• Audit logs

• Marketplace improvements• Updated New hub

• Social sharing of marketplace items

• Improved pricing tier blade

• Improved browser interactions• Browser Back button support (preview)

• Text selection in blade headers

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Global Azure Bootcamp 2015Locations all around the globe – including Brisbane!

Saturday, 25th April 2015

Saturday, 2nd May 2015

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032616856&Culture=en-AU&community=0

Azure Licensing for ISVs and StartupsThe Edge (Cultural Centre – South Bank) Brisbane

Tuesday, 24th March 2015 at 12:15 pm

https://www.sqlsaturday.com/382/eventhome.aspx

SQL Saturday #382Australian Institute of Management (AIM), Cnr Boundary and Rosa Streets, Springhill

Saturday, 28th March 2015