document.createElement('audio'); https://jgardner04.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/004podcast-mixdown-1_01.mp3 Azure Updates Azure Data Lake reaches Public Preview Data Lake is made up of 2 parts, analytics and storage. The analytics portion is based on Apache YARN and supports Azure Active Directory access. The service is only billed while jobs are running against the analytics engine. The storage prtion is based on HDFS. U-SQL U-SQL was designed to ease the learning curve for Big Data and is based on SQL and C#. Dynamic Data Masking is GA Azure SQL V12 Limit access to sensitive data in the database on-the-fly No need to modify database procedures or application code Supports Azure Active Directory authentication and groups Azure Backup support for Load Balanced and Encrypted VMs VMs that are in a load balanced config can now be backed up Encrypted VMs using CloudLink General Discussion Extreme OwnershipFiled under: Podcast Tagged: Podcast