Show Notes for Episode 11 – Ignite 2016 Recap
This week, the SharePoint Sherpas provide a recap of the announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2016. There were a ton of announcements, so they were only able to provide an overview. The full set of announcements (at least that they found) are below.
Links from the show:

Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cloud-innovations-empowering-it-for-business-transformation/

Compute

New L-series VMs – storage-optimized VMs. Supports up to 6 TB of local SSD.
New H-series VMs – fastest CPUs in the public cloud + RDMA with InfiniBand for HPC scenarios
Large instances for SAP HANA (up to 3 TB for OLTP, up to 32 TB of RAM for scale-out OLAP)
N-Series – finally being released

Red Hat

RHEL in Azure Gov
RHEL support for SAP apps

Networking: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2016/

General bandwidth improvement of 33-50%
Public Preview of the new Accelerated Networking (up to 25Gbps and 10x reduction in latency)
VNet Peering – connects VNets in the same region for full-mesh connectivity
UltraPerformance Gateway SKU for ExpressRoute that supports up to 10Gbps throughput (5x improvement)