This Week I Learned - Week #8 2019

This Week I Learned -

Azure Site Recovery enabled Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) now supports:
- Azure VMs in availability zones
- Encrypted VMs
- VMs using accelerated networking
- VMs using Storage Spaces Direct
- VMs using Standard Solid State Drive (SSD) disks
- Unmanaged VMs using firewall-enabled storage accounts
- New Linux versions

* A load balancer is restricted to a single availability set, virtual machine scale set, or a single machine. The Standard tier can span any virtual machine in a single virtual network, including blends of scale sets, availability sets, and machines.

* GDPR forbids geofencing inside the 26-member European Union. The rationale is that geoblocking prevents member citizens from purchasing goods outside of their countries at fair prices - IT Pro Today

Data Journalism Handbook explores new and innovative ways in which data is analysed, created and used in the context of journalism.

* Flatiron Health is the third company college friends Zach Weinberg and Nat Turner started together with the goal of pooling patient data from electronic health rec­ords in a way that could answer scientific questions and improve medicine. Their first, an online food delivery business which they started in their freshman year at Wharton, had failed, but a second one, an online advertising business called Invite Media, sold to Google for $81 million in 2010, when they were 24 - Forbes

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