June 21, 2017
Today we are kicking of a new series on Microsoft Mechanics called "How we built it" to share the real-world architectural back stories and best practices as told by the technology architects in our customer organizations.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
The third and final part of the article series “Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage” has been published on the Analysis Services team blog. It shows that an Azure…
Monday, June 19, 2017
In this blog post, I will talk about how to use Update Management solution to manage updates for your Azure VMs. Right from within your Azure VM, you can quickly assess the status of available updates, initiate the process of installing required updates, and review deployment results to verify that updates were applied successfully to the VM.
Monday, June 19, 2017
With the Application Insights JavaScript SDK you can collect and investigate the performance and usage of your web page or app. Historically we have offered onboarding through manually adding a…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is really connected, I have chosen the advanced installation method. We will start with some Linux related adjustments and the Docker engine deployment.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it."
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need,…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
We’re happy to announce that cloud encryption company Tresorit launched their ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK in Azure marketplace today! With ZeroKit, developers can easily build E2EE “zero knowledge” apps that protect data and user passwords from the most frequent data breaches.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
"Secure transfer required " feature is now supported in Azure Storage account.
Monday, June 26, 2017
The latest version of Bright Cluster Manager gives customers the ability to easily build an HPC cluster on Azure, or to extend their existing on-premises HPC cluster to Azure.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
We released 1.1 of the Azure Management Libraries for Java. This release adds support for: Cosmos DB, Azure Container Service, and Registry Active Directory Graph.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
The third and final part of the article series “Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage” has been published on the Analysis Services team blog. It shows that an Azure…
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Azure Media Services announces support for AAD authentication and the 12-month deprecation notice of ACS key support. Customers encouraged to migrate quickly to AAD
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Today we are kicking of a new series on Microsoft Mechanics called "How we built it" to share the real-world architectural back stories and best practices as told by the technology architects in our customer organizations.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve your Azure VPN experience, we are introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Today, at the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, I am honored to join Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation on stage to announce that we have joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold Member.
Friday, June 16, 2017
As customers bet more and more on Cloud to drive digital transformation within their organizations, we’re seeing tremendous usage of Azure. Recently, Forbes reported a study done by Cowen and Company…
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Azure increases the maximum size and performance of Azure Disks. We are excited to announce the maximum disk sizes for both Premium and Standard storage. This extends the maximum size of the disks per…
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Azure Application Insights is an application performance management (APM) platform which provides performance and diagnostic information about your running services and applications to help you…
Monday, June 12, 2017
Whether it is to drive agility, develop new skills, or engage and scale through community, open source is at the core of how developers deliver value in a cloud world. I can clearly see this…
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Monday, May 15, 2017
We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions. As part of…
Monday, April 3, 2017
For Microsoft Azure, we have a long standing promise of making our prices comparable with AWS on commodity services such as compute, storage, and bandwidth. In keeping with this commitment, we are…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
"Secure transfer required " feature is now supported in Azure Storage account.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need,…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve your Azure VPN experience, we are introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a…
Monday, April 3, 2017
For Microsoft Azure, we have a long standing promise of making our prices comparable with AWS on commodity services such as compute, storage, and bandwidth. In keeping with this commitment, we are…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it."
Monday, May 15, 2017
We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions. As part of…
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
We’re happy to announce that cloud encryption company Tresorit launched their ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK in Azure marketplace today! With ZeroKit, developers can easily build E2EE “zero knowledge” apps that protect data and user passwords from the most frequent data breaches.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is really connected, I have chosen the advanced installation method. We will start with some Linux related adjustments and the Docker engine deployment.