Yay Azure opening datacenter in Aussie

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#154244 22-Oct-2014 10:04

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/21/microsoft_and_dell_open_new_australian_data_centres/

Looks to be next week or so. Hopefully we should see less latency compared to Singapore.

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#1159799 22-Oct-2014 10:07

That'll interest a few people. We compared Amazon's Sydney and Singapore offerings and the connection to Singapore was rubbish by comparison. Around 1/3 of the sustained transfer rate to Sydney if I remember correctly.

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#1159800 22-Oct-2014 10:08

The AU market looks like it's heating up. AWS announced that they are building two new datacentres in Sydney too.

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#1159807 22-Oct-2014 10:13

Excellent :) This has been on the cards for quite a long time, good to see it finally coming to fruition.

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#1159834 22-Oct-2014 10:38

Would definitely like to move our website and VM's to the new datacenter for the reduction in latency. Not sure what to make of the fact that it is colocated, but should still have better speed than Singapore.

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#1159838 22-Oct-2014 10:50

paulmilbank: Not sure what to make of the fact that it is colocated, but should still have better speed than Singapore.

The Sydney one will likely be in Equinix which I think Amazon use as well which is pretty well connected and secured. I would imagine that it would be a better move than building their own at this stage but won't be cheap.

They have cards, biometrics and guards to secure the entrance and then more cards + biometrics to enter the co-lo area then the rooms then the cage then the rack. I would imagine that they would be getting their own cage so should be pretty well secured.

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#1159876 22-Oct-2014 11:22

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#1166431 1-Nov-2014 13:36

Excellent result. Just set up some servers in Azure Sydney and they are almost real time interactive now. The rdp experience is not slow and dragging like it was in Singapore. Really pleased with the performance now.

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#1166432 1-Nov-2014 13:51

I used AWS in US-East, their performance was ok... not fast like a local interactive machine, but fast enough for configuration and such, especially since I was using the free 1GB/1VCPU instance. I'll have to spin up a server in Sydney for a play some time.

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#1167185 2-Nov-2014 22:18

I uploaded a 1TB file to the Sydney Azure Blob Storage last week, got 10MB/sec solid sustained transfer (100MBps) on a customers fibre connection. Glad you're having good experiences too!

The Azure datacenters in Syd/Mel are more than just a handful of servers in a rack/cage - someone I know who visited said they were "massive" (they had been inside several NZ datacenters, but they hadn't been in the ones in the US which are truly massive!). In order to operate, an Azure datacenter needs to be a minimum size and a handful of servers comes nowhere close to that. When you store data in Azure, there are generally at least 3 copies of that data stored in separate zones in the primary datacenter. This is also mirrored in a secondary datacenter - which is why they (datacenters) are typically deployed in pairs within a geo.

Equinox provide interconnectivity - both internet and private trunks (aka ExpressRoute) - into Azure in their capacity as an IXP (internet exchange point) but that doesn't mean that the datacenter is hosted there...

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#1167188 2-Nov-2014 22:22

if you want to see a bit more about Azure datacenters - operation, power, security, layout etc - you can check out some videos (e.g. the Datacenter Tour Short Version) on the Microsoft Datacenter YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0KGpDrFQ3uSqS6ZGHzvU8A

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#1167237 3-Nov-2014 06:43

Is there a good/low cost way to learn .Net architecture and Azure? I know a fair bit about AWS, and would like to also learn about Azure and Google Cloud from a solution architect point of view.

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#1169113 5-Nov-2014 10:57

timmmay: Is there a good/low cost way to learn .Net architecture and Azure? I know a fair bit about AWS, and would like to also learn about Azure and Google Cloud from a solution architect point of view.

We (Microsoft DX Team) run free hands-on training days from time-to-time.

@nzthiago runs the hands-on training Dev Camps - he just finished the Azure series but has a couple of gaming focussed ones coming in December in WLG and AKL.

@nzregs (me :)) runs the IT Pro/Infrastructure focussed IT Camps - there are still events coming up in AKL and CHC (next week), and WLG on Nov 20. I did one in HAM last week.

Some of the other Microsoft teams also run events, we often put these into our bi-weekly newsletters so the best way to keep up to date with when these are happening is to subscribe to the MSDN and TechNet newsletters.

Mauricio also keeps his events page on the Intergen website up to date, so can also be a handy reference: http://www.intergen.co.nz/upcoming-events/Our-Events/community-events/

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#1169118 5-Nov-2014 11:01

oh, forgot to add, the cheapest way to learn .Net, Azure, and any other Microsoft technologies is through self-study. Our largest resource is the Microsoft Virtual Academy site which has hundreds of free dev or infrastructure related courses that you can go. The "Jumpstart" courses are great for sinking your teeth into the new technologies.

www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com

There are also a ton of blog posts, how-to sites etc out there and you can download the free version of Visual Studio Express and fire up and Azure Free Trial to get started.

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#1169133 5-Nov-2014 11:04

Thanks Regs. I don't want to learn how to code (I already can in a bunch of languages), I guess I just want to understand the platform, technologies involved, layers, integration, etc. Will have a look at the VA, thanks.

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#1169351 5-Nov-2014 16:00

Do we know if this might mean NZ Office 365 customers being migrated to Sydney for Exchange? That would be awesome

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