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Azure FXT Edge Filer is in public preview
The Avere FXT Edge Filer solution is currently being previewed. This redesigned hardware takes advantage of Avere Systems’ software technology to accelerate network-attached storage (NAS) environments and expand access to Azure Blob.
Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview
Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.
March 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs (preview) available in Central Canada and UK South
Azure Monitor for VMs (preview) is now available in Central Canada and UK South. Around the world, it’s available in six public regions.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics is now available in Azure China
Azure Monitor is a fully managed monitoring service that collects and analyses telemetry from your Azure and on-premises resources and applications, and allows you to maximise the performance and availability of your application.
February 2019
Azure Analysis Services web designer to be discontinued
The Azure Analysis Services web designer will be removed from the Azure portal as early as 1 March 2019.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices and more. It brings together a highly performant and scalable cloud database service with an intuitive query language to deliver near-instant insights.
January 2019
GitHub Enterprise support and automatic GitHub service connections in pipelines – Sprint 146 Update
In the Sprint 146 Update of Azure DevOps, we improved our GitHub integration with Azure Pipelines. The “New build pipeline” wizard can now create pipelines for GitHub Enterprise repositories.
September 2018
Azure Cost Management in the Azure portal preview
Azure Cost Management is in the Azure portal and currently in preview. It’s now enabled by default, with improved performance and fully integrated into the Azure platform.
SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights
Get intelligent insights to ensure that your data warehouse is consistently optimised for performance with SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights.
General availability: Event Hubs for Node.js
Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Node.js is now generally available.
General availability: Event Hubs for Go
Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Go is generally available.
General availability: Event Hubs for Python
Version 1.0 of the Python package for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available.
May 2018
Power BI embedded feature roundup—new features now available
Great new features are now available in Power BI Embedded.
Azure Memory Thrashing metric available for Power BI Embedded
An Azure Memory Thrashing metric is available for Power BI Embedded.
Azure Cognitive Search
Cognitive Search, a new preview feature in the existing Azure Search service, includes an enrichment pipeline allowing you to find rich structured information from documents. That information can then become part of your Azure Search index.
April 2018
Enhanced portal capabilities for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse has enabled the next set of portal capabilities to help monitor, manage and integrate your data warehouse.
February 2018
Azure Analysis Services available in Central US
Azure Analysis Services is now available in the Central US region.
January 2018
Azure HDInsight – New capabilities and price reductions
We recently made several exciting announcements about Azure HDInsight, including a price reduction of up to 52 per cent on all workloads on HDInsight, and added an additional 80 per cent price reduction for the Microsoft R Server add-on.
May 2017
Azure Time Series Insights
Azure Time Series Insights is a managed analytics and visualisation service that democratises the Internet of Things (IoT) by making it simple to explore and analyse your IoT time series data.
Azure Content Delivery Network – Core Analytics
Azure Content Delivery Network provides secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach and a rich feature set. New, enhanced reporting capability will enable you to analyse several metrics including bandwidth consumption, data transferred and cache hit ratio.
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