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Spearheading the vision of "All of Microsoft runs in the cloud", Microsoft IT is moving approximately 2,100 line‐of‐business (LOB) applications spread across eight data-centers worldwide, comprising over 40,000 distinct operating system instances to Azure to support its 180,000 internal users. MS has made available a comprehensive Business Case Study & Microsoft Virtual Academy course " Cloud at Microsoft ", that covers the best practices Microsoft has created and employed to design, develop, deploy, and operate in the cloud for their global environment. The 21 module, 18-hour video course also covers an analysis of the cloud migration process using their actual applications as examples. This is useful for learning for anyone involved in Cloud migration.

This Week I Learned - * ..the answer to “AWS or Azure?” is “it depends on the workload.” * Continuum allows Windows 10 Mobile users to have a PC-like experience when connected to an external display and a mouse and keyboard. When connected (via a wired dock or via Bluetooth and Miracast), Universal Windows Apps like Office and Microsoft Edge will adapt their interface and behavior to provide a desktop-like experience tailored to mouse and keyboard input...when the device is connected to a larger display, Microsoft Edge turns into a desktop browser, adapting the interface and rendering characteristics to match Microsoft Edge on PCs - IEBlog *  Chris Heilmann has a way to make a 4 MB CSV easily searchable in a browser using ServiceWorker & client side JavaScript through an offline web app. *  All of the resources in a Resource group should share the same lifecycle. You will deploy, update and delete them together. If one resource, such as a database server, needs to ...

This Week I Learned - * Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets make it easy to build highly scalable applications by deploying identical virtual machines (VMs) as a set. Built on the Azure Resource Manager model, Scale Sets works with Windows and Linux images, custom images, and extensions. There is no additional cost to use Scale Sets. * Default replication scheme for an Azure storage account is Geo-redundant, which replicates data 6 times, thrice in a remote Azure region. * Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) is only available to store block blobs and not page blobs. VHDs use page blobs only * All storage accounts have a container named $logs that contains the log files stored as block blobs. The $logs container cannot be deleted. *  Uber processes data for millions of trips in over 400 cities in 60 different countries on a daily basis.  In the beginning, Uber managed their trip data via JSON blobs, with each trip requiring about 20 kilobytes (KB) of data. Assu...