CGG speeds geoscience insights on Azure HPC
July 9, 2019
A leader in geosciences, CGG has been imaging the earth’s subsurface for more than 85 years. Their products and solutions help clients locate natural resources.
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Thanks for 10 years and welcome to a new chapter in SQL innovation
July 8, 2019
Tomorrow, July 9, 2019, marks the end of extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. These releases transformed the database industry, with all the core components of a database platform built-in at a fraction of the cost of other databases.
Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available
July 8, 2019
Our customers continue to use the Azure Data Box family to move massive amounts of data into Azure. One of the regular requests that we receive is for a larger capacity option that retains the simplicity, security, and speed of the original Data Box.
New to Azure? Follow these easy steps to get started
June 20, 2019
Today, many organizations are leveraging digital transformation to deliver their applications and services in the cloud. At the recent Build 2019 conference, Microsoft Azure Quickstart Center was generally available and received positive feedback from customers.
Gartner names Microsoft a leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS
June 20, 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.
First Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East now available
June 18, 2019
Today, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 are taking a major step together to help support the digital transformation of our customers. Both Azure and Office 365 are now generally available from our first cloud datacenter regions in the Middle East, located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Customers get unmatched security with Windows Server and SQL Server workloads in Azure
June 13, 2019
Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure where they find unmatched security. While understanding cloud security is initially a concern to many, after digging in, customers often tell us the security posture they can set up within Azure is easier to implement and far more comprehensive than what they can provide for in other environments.
Announcing self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters
June 4, 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.
Customize your automatic update settings for Azure Virtual Machine disaster recovery
June 3, 2019
When we released the capability of automatic update of agents used in disaster recovery of Azure VMs, the most frequent feedback we received was related to access control. The request from customers was to allow them to provide a previously created automation account – approved and created by a person who is entrusted with the right access in the subscription.
Azure Stack IaaS – part nine
June 3, 2019
Before we built Azure Stack, our program manager team called a lot of customers who were struggling to create a private cloud out of their virtualization infrastructure.