20 March 2017
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four additional regions—Germany Central, Germany Northeast, Korea Central, and Korea South. This takes the SQL Data…
20 March 2017
Hilary Cotter and Alberto Morillo top the Overall and Cloud database lists this month. For questions related to this leaderboard, please write to leaderboard-sql@microsoft.com.
20 March 2017
Last year in October we released the preview of Azure Analysis Services, which is built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. With Azure Analysis Services you can host semantic data models in the cloud. Users in your organization can then connect to your data models using tools like Excel, Power BI, and many others to create reports and perform ad-hoc data analysis. I joined Jeremy Chapman on Microsoft Mechanics to discuss the benefits of Analysis Services in Azure.
16 March 2017
If you are backing up your Azure Linux VMs using Azure Backup, you can restore files instantly from the VM backup with no additional cost or infrastructure. If you are not backing up your Azure Linux VMs yet, you can start now to back them up directly from the VM blade.
16 March 2017
We are excited to announce doAzureParallel – a lightweight R package built on top of Azure Batch, that allows you to easily use Azure’s flexible compute resources right from your R session.
15 March 2017
Every day, customers around the world connect to Microsoft Azure, Bing, Dynamics 365, Office 365, OneDrive, Xbox, and many other services through trillions of requests. These requests are for diverse…
15 March 2017
This week in San Jose, Microsoft will be at Strata Hadoop + World where will be announcing new capabilities of Azure HDInsight, our fully managed OSS analytics platform for running all open-source…
15 March 2017
Today, we are excited to announce that DocumentDB’s API for MongoDB is generally available. The API for MongoDB allows developers to experience the power of the DocumentDB database engine with the comfort of a managed service and the familiarity of the MongoDB SDKs and tools.
15 March 2017
We are pleased to announce that StorSimple 8000 series Update 4.0 is now generally available. This release has the following new features and enhancements: Heatmap-based restore – No more slowness…
15 March 2017
We are excited to introduce a new series of virtual machine sizes. The L-Series for Storage optimizes workloads that require low latency, such as NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera…