Real world business tracks leading towards Azure Services
Azure Arc for servers was announced this week at MSIgnite 2019. A very exciting service that allows for non-Azure machines to be connected to Azure and treated as a resource. This is the beginning of something amazing for administration, automation, and service unification.
With an increasing need in all businesses to have the latest and most accurate data, weather is no exception. With Azure Maps Weather Services, you can now integrate weather data into your web or other apps via API. Weather data has been floating around for a while now, but Azure has worked closely with AccuWeather to bring frequent forecast updates (hourly) to you so that you can make better decisions with the data.
Azure Updates Management helps you keep your virtual machines updated without intervention and using an automated schedule. No need for additional third-party products with all the functionality build right into your Azure subscription. The ability to patch regularly addresses major security concerns and requirements for compliance by reducing risk footprints, patching flaws and bugs, and automating the process to remove human error.
Azure Blog announced this week the General Availability of larger storage and powerful new features for Azure Files. Azure Files is a secure, managed storage option within Azure offering data redundancy options and hybrid capabilities using Azure File Sync. For those that have been waiting for increased capacity and performance, the time is now to take advantage of this managed service offering and get your on-prem files synced into Azure File services for redundancy.
If you are just getting comfortable using Azure or want to start learning a bit more about how to provision virtual machines using a method that can be automated and repeated quickly – stay tuned as we’ll cover some simple commands on using your free Azure account, connecting to Azure CLI, learning some test and demo commands, create a virtual machine, look at the potential to automate your code, and some common commands in Azure CLI.
Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience that is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus. The new offering makes it significantly easier to scale Windows 10 and Office deployments on Azure and comes with built-in security and compliance.
