Category: AI + Machine Learning • 4 min read
We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of small open models with the capability of 10 times larger models, developed by Microsoft and optimized for Azure AI.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Best practices, Databases
Published • 4 min read
This blog is a continuation of a series of blog posts to share best practices for improving performance and scale when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. In this post, we will focus on the benefits of using connection pooling and share our recommendations to improve connection resiliency, performance, and scalability of applications running on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage
Published • 4 min read
As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.
Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake Storage
Published • 3 min read
It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.
Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Databases, Developer Tools
Published • 1 min read
With Azure DevOps Projects we want to make it is easy for you to set up a fully functional DevOps pipeline tailored to the development language and application platform you want to leverage.
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From January 1 to January 15, 2019, 67 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.
Compute, How to, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Published • 3 min read
Always On availability groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your SQL Server database, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.
Azure DevTest Labs, Developer Tools, How to
Published • 2 min read
As a lab owner, you now have the option to configure all your lab virtual machines (VMs) to be created in a single resource group. This helps prevent you from reaching resource group limits on your Microsoft Azure subscription.
Announcements, Azure SQL Database, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases
Published • 1 min read
Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.
Announcements, Cost Management, Management and Governance
Published • 2 min read
We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and optimize costs across Azure.
Analytics, Azure HDInsight, Best practices
Published • 10 min read
n the current era, companies generate huge volumes of data every second. Whether it be for business intelligence, user analytics, or operational intelligence; ingestion, and analysis of streaming data requires moving this data from its sources to the multiple consumers that are interested in it.