Wednesday, 11 March 2020
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in the inaugural report, The Forrester New Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2020 based on their evaluation of Azure Functions.
Monday, 24 February 2020
We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Files Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication. You can now mount your Azure Files using Azure AD credentials with the exact same access control experience as on-premises.
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Cloud computing has opened new paradigms that enable enterprises to reach new levels of productivity and scale. At the tip of that spear is serverless computing, enabling developers, teams, and organizations to focus on business logic and leave hosting and scaling of resources to the cloud platform.
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
It's always been a tricky business to handle mission-critical processes. Much of the technical debt that companies assume comes from having to architect systems that have multiple layers of redundancy, to mitigate the chance of outages that may severely impact customers. The process of both architecting and subsequently maintaining these systems has resulted in huge losses in productivity and agility throughout many enterprises across all industries.
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The emergence of the cloud and the edge as the new frontiers for computing is an exciting direction—data is now dispersed within and beyond the enterprise, on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge.
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Most modern-day businesses employ analytics pipelines for real-time and batch processing. A common characteristic of these pipelines is that data arrives at irregular intervals from diverse sources. This adds complexity in terms of having to orchestrate the pipeline such that data gets processed in a timely fashion.
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Personal computers revolutionized the way work was done. New software unlocked unprecedented levels of productivity, and for a time, business flourished. As the personal computer exploded in popularity, more and more software was created. For the individual, this was a golden age. For the enterprise, this was also a golden age... with an asterisk.
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
For businesses today, data is indispensable. Innovative ideas in manufacturing, health care, transportation, and financial industries are often the result of capturing and correlating data from multiple sources.
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Event-driven architectures are increasingly replacing and outpacing less dynamic polling-based systems, bringing the benefits of serverless computing to IoT scenarios, data processing tasks or infrastructure automation jobs.
Friday, 17 May 2019
Unlocking new possibilities with Window Server containers and Azure Kubernetes Service.