Category: AI + Machine Learning, Category: Security • 6 min read
To help customers meet new AI quality and safety challenges, we’re announcing new tools now available or coming soon to Azure AI Studio for generative AI app developers.
Azure Cosmos DB, Customer stories, Databases
Published • 3 min read
Founded in 2003, Skype has grown to become one of the world’s premier communication services, making it simple to share experiences with others wherever they are. Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2010, Skype has grown to more than four billion total users, more than 300 million monthly active users, and more than 40 million concurrent users.
Azure Cosmos DB, Customer stories, Databases, Migration
Published • 5 min read
Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft. It gave Skype everything needed for its new People Core Service (PCS), including turnkey global distribution and elastic scaling of throughput and storage, making it an ideal foundation for distributed apps like Skype that require extremely low latency at global scale.
Azure IoT Edge, Internet of Things, Partners
Published • 3 min read
In December 2018, Microsoft launched the Azure IoT certification service, a web-based test automation workflow to streamline the certification process through self-serve tools. Azure IoT certification service (AICS) was designed to reduce the operational processes and engineering costs for hardware manufacturers to get their devices certified for Azure Certified for IoT program and be showcased on the Azure IoT device catalog.
Azure App Service, Azure Front Door, Azure Functions, Hybrid + Multicloud, Media Services
Published • 13 min read
Extending Azure security capabilities; Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads; Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service; and much more.
Azure Blob Storage, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Digital Twins, Internet of Things, Partners
Published • 2 min read
In the world of manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has come, and that means data. A loT of data. Smart machines, equipped with sensors, add to the large quantity of data already generated from quality systems, MES, ERP and other production systems.
Announcements, Azure App Service, Migration, Web
Published • 3 min read
In June 2018, we released the App Service Migration Assessment Tool. The Assessment Tool was designed to help customers quickly and easily assess whether a site could be moved to Azure App Service by scanning an externally accessible (HTTP) endpoint.
Azure Resource Manager, Best practices, Compute, Hybrid + Multicloud, Microsoft Entra ID
Published • 3 min read
Most apps get delivered by a team. When your team delivers the app through virtual machine (VMs), it is important to coordinate efforts. Born in the cloud to serve teams from all over the world, Azure and Azure Stack have some handy capabilities to help you coordinate VM operations across your team.
Announcements, Azure Front Door, Networking
Published • 3 min read
Every internet facing web application, whether serving a large audience or a small set of users in a single region, is by default a global application. Whether you are running a large news website with millions of users across the globe, running a B2B application for managing your sales channels or a local pastry shop in a city – your users are distributed/roaming across multiple locations, or your application demands deployment into multiple locations for high availability or disaster recovery scenarios.
Announcements, Application Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), DevOps, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Published • 2 min read
Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. It is being chosen by a growing number of enterprises as the open source continuous deployment platform used to modernize their application deployments.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI Video Indexer, Media, Media Services
Published • 7 min read
After sweeping up multiple awards with the general availability release of Azure Media Services’ Video Indexer, including the 2018 IABM for innovation in content management and the prestigious Peter Wayne award, the team has remained focused on building a wealth of new features and models to allow any organization with a large archive of media content to unlock insights from their content.