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General availability: Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is generally available. It's a personalized recommendation guide that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure resources.
September 2016
Azure Security Center enhancements
Azure Security Center helps customers take control of cloud security policies, monitor the current security of Azure resources, and detect and respond to active attacks.
July 2016
General availability: Microsoft R Server for Linux virtual machines
Microsoft R Server, the most broadly deployable enterprise-class analytics platform for R available today, is generally available.
May 2016
General availability: Azure SQL Database elastic pools
Azure SQL Database elastic pools are ideally suited for SaaS and line-of-business applications that need the performance, availability, and security isolation benefits of provisioning one database for each tenant or application.
April 2016
Public preview: Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs available to developers to make their applications more intelligent and engaging.
Azure HDInsight supports R for machine learning and new updates to Spark and Hadoop
Azure HDInsight can run 100 percent open-source R to do machine learning and has new updates on the latest Hadoop and Spark components from Hortonworks.
February 2016
Preview: Temporal tables in Azure SQL Database
With temporal tables in Azure SQL Database, you can efficiently track and analyze data history without custom coding.
October 2015
Azure API Management and Azure Event Hubs integration
We are excited to announce the new Azure Event Hubs integration features of API Management. API Management provides a number of analytics reports out-of-the-box, but for deeper customized analysis, monitoring, or troubleshooting, you can now configure your API Management service to log data in the form of events to Azure Event Hubs.
General availability: Apache Hadoop on Linux in HDInsight
You can now select Linux clusters when deploying Apache Hadoop workloads in Azure HDInsight and more easily move existing Hadoop workloads into the cloud with an expanded set of open source, big data components running managed Hadoop in Azure.
August 2015
Azure Search updates: API prototype, language support, new regions
Azure Search updates include an API prototype, language support, and new regions.
July 2015
Public preview: Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight
Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight provides a fast and easy way to run interactive data analysis on large data sets.
May 2015
Announcing Microsoft Operations Management Suite
The Microsoft Operations Management Suite is the IT management solution for the era of the cloud; a single solution, built to manage your entire enterprise environment regardless of location, operating system, hypervisors, or cloud provider choices.
General availability: Azure Operational Insights
Azure Operational Insights is available as part of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
April 2015
Service Tier Advisor for Azure SQL Database is available
Service Tier Advisor analyzes the performance and feature requirements for individual databases to provide insights to help you choose the correct tier and performance level for your Azure SQL Database upgrade.
General availability: Azure Operational Insights
Generally available on May 4, 2015, Azure Operational Insights is an analysis service designed to provide IT administrators with deep insight into their on-premises and cloud environments.
January 2015
Easily enable Operational Insights for Azure virtual machines
Quickly enable Azure Operational Insights on your virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell or the Azure management portal.
November 2014
Public Preview: Azure Operational Insights
Operational Insights is an Azure-based service that is tailored for IT operations teams. It leverages the power of Azure HDInsight to glean machine data across environments, and turns the data into real-time operational intelligence to enable better-informed business decisions.
October 2014
New Machine Learning capabilities on the Azure Marketplace
We have added to the Azure Marketplace a wealth of examples of APIs that are built with Azure Machine Learning. These APIs are free to use, and illustrate how the reach and power of the cloud allow advanced analytics to be consumed by more users in more ways.
January 2014
General Availability: A8 and A9 compute-intensive instances for Azure Cloud Services
A8 and A9 feature 8 virtual cores with 56 gigabytes (GB) or 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of memory. They include faster processors and more virtual cores for higher compute power, larger amounts of memory, and a 40 GB/S InfiniBand network.
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