Umbraco uses Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools for thousands of CMS tenants in the cloud
22 September 2016
Azure SQL Database powers Umbraco-as-a-Service.
Guy Haycock
Principal Product Planner, Azure Data Platform
Azure VM
Introducing a simplified configuration experience for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines
29 December 2015
Announcing a new configuration experience for SQL Server Virtual Machines making the setup of your VM significantly easier.
Ninar Nuemah
Program Manager II, Azure SQL
Azure VM Scale Sets public preview
11 November 2015
VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set. Scale sets are well suited for building large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads – all of which are increasing in significance as cloud computing continues to evolve.
Mark Russinovich
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure
Introducing the Azure DSCForLinux Extension
26 October 2015
This topic will annouce the new Azure VM Extension-DSCForLinux Extension, and introduce the key features of DSCForLinux Extension.
Scott Zhang
Senior Program Manager, Open Source Technology Center
Dev-Test Starts with IT: How to create a dev-test environment in Azure
01 October 2015
There’s a simpler way to speed up the process of creating a dev-test environment. Azure makes it easy to create virtual machines and network them together—the first steps in creating your own dev-test environment.
Preview: “What is about to happen to my VM?” In-VM Notification Service
21 September 2015
As a service owner that runs on a public cloud, you might already asked the question, “What is about to happen to my VM?”. The following post will help answer this question.
Hariharan Jayaraman
Senior Program Manager, Azure Compute
Boot Diagnostics for Virtual Machines v2
02 September 2015
Announcing support for two debugging features: Console Output and Screenshot support for Azure Virtual Machines.
Kenaz Kwa
Program Manager, Azure Compute
Announcing the GS-Series: Adding Premium Storage Support to the Largest VMs in the Public Cloud
02 September 2015
We’re excited to announce a variant of G-series, the GS-series, which combines the compute power of G-series with the performance of Premium Storage to create powerful VMs for your most storage and compute intensive applications.
Corey Sanders
Corporate Vice President, Azure
Availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure
09 July 2015
We're excited to announce availability of Linux RDMA on Microsoft Azure. With this release, we mark a new milestone in our cloud journey and in our vision to make HPC and Big Compute more accessible and cost-effective.
Tejas Karmarkar
Principal Program Manager, Azure Compute
Automated Everything with SQL Server on IaaS VMs
29 January 2015
Today, we are excited to announce support for automated backup and automated patching, available directly in the portal for SQL Server Azure Virtual Machines.
Corey Sanders
Corporate Vice President, Azure