Microsoft released this new video a couple of months back which is an interesting view of the Azure datacenter world.
Author: Scott Duffy
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How Microsoft Exam Scoring Works
Saw this video today about how Microsoft scoring works for MCP exams. Very interesting if you’re thinking of or taking a Microsoft exam.
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Azure Functions Reach General Availability
Microsoft recently announced an addition to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering called Azure Functions. Initially launched as a preview service in March 2016, Azure Functions provide developers with an event-driven serverless compute platform that allow organizations to pay for only what they consume.
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Microsoft Offers Exam, Retake and Practice Test At a Discount
Not sure if this is a special limited time offer, but I noticed recently that Microsoft is offering two special “bundles” that are a significant savings for students.
http://www.mindhub.com/microsoft-cloud-exam-bundles-p/mcp-azure-skills-1_p.htm
The regular price of a Microsoft Azure exam is $165. That’s the price I paid for it. But now Microsoft is offering the exam, a retake voucher and a practice test for $99. That’s an unbelievable deal.
If you haven’t booked the test year, you might want to grab this. It appears you have 3 months to activate it and 1 year after that to take the test.
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The Online Proctored Exam Experience
Saw an interesting video today talking about the online proctored exam option that Microsoft offers test takers. Well worth watching if you are thinking about taking the exam at home.
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Microsoft continues its pivot to being all about cloud services | ZDNet
It’s not over for Windows and devices. But Microsoft’s future is increasingly about the cloud and subscriptions, as its financials and corporate priorities show.
Source: Microsoft continues its pivot to being all about cloud services | ZDNet
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Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service
This sounds so cool.
Many of you know Bitcoin. Underlying bitcoin is the blockchain, which allows complete strangers to transfer money based on cryptography providing the trust factor. The blockchain is a public ledger of who owns what, and once I transfer my bitcoin to you, that gets written to the public record and everyone knows I don’t own it any more.
Now imagine that as a private, members-only blockchain. Microsoft has Blockchain-as-a-Service in Azure. Very cool.
Project Bletchley is a vision for Microsoft to deliver Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) that is open and flexible for all platforms, partners and customers. We’re thrilled to be on this journey with the blockchain community, and are looking forward to helping transform the way we think about and do business today.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bletchley-blockchain/
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Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design | TechCrunch
Microsoft today open sourced its next-gen hyperscale cloud hardware design and contributed it to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Microsoft joined the OCP, which also includes Facebook, Google, Intel, IBM, Rackspace and many other cloud vendors, back in 2014. Over the last two years, it already contributed a number of server, networking and data center designs.
Source: Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design | TechCrunch
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Azure brings SQL Server Analysis Services to the cloud | PCWorld
SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft’s relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it’s launching the public beta of Azure Analysis Services, which gives users access to semantic data modeling tools in the cloud.
Source: Azure brings SQL Server Analysis Services to the cloud | PCWorld
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Microsoft Azure revenue jumped 116% in Q1 2017 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet
Microsoft today said that its Azure public cloud saw its revenue go up 116 percent year over year in the quarter that ended on September 30. Compute usage also doubled year over year, Microsoft said.Source: Microsoft Azure revenue jumped 116% in Q1 2017 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet