March 14, 2019
Microsoft is built on the belief of empowering people and organizations to achieve more – it is the DNA of our company. Today we are announcing a new initiative, Microsoft Game Stack, in which we commit to bringing together Microsoft tools and services that will empower game developers like yourself, whether you’re an indie developer just starting out or a AAA studio, to achieve more.
Read moreMonday, March 25, 2019
Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview on Azure; Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines now generally available; Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB is named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Big Data NoSQL; and much more.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB. Forrester’s findings validate the exceptional market momentum of Azure Cosmos DB and how happy our customers are with the product.
Monday, March 18, 2019
When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it. PostgreSQL has a command line tool, psql, and it’s pretty powerful, but some people much prefer a graphical editor.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
As companies increasingly look to transform their businesses with AI, we continue to add improvements to Azure AI to make it easy for developers and data scientists to deploy, manage, and secure AI functions directly into their applications.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Today I am pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge and the Azure Data Box Gateway.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Along with the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge that was announced today, we are announcing the preview of Azure Machine Learning hardware accelerated models on Data Box Edge.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The blob storage interface on the Data Box has been in preview since September 2018 and we are happy to announce that it's now generally available. This is in addition to the server message block (SMB) and network file system (NFS) interface already generally available on the Data Box.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
It has been inspiring to watch how customers use Azure Stack to innovate and drive digital transformation across cloud boundaries. In her blog post today, Julia White shares examples of how customers are using Azure Stack to innovate on-premises using Azure services.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Customers who are taking a hybrid cloud approach are seeing real business value – I see this in organizations across the globe. The ability for customers to embrace both public cloud and local datacenter, plus edge capability, is enabling customers to improve their IT agility and maximize efficiency.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Clean up files by built-in delete activity in Azure Data Factory
Monday, March 25, 2019
To help you plan your IoT journey, we’re rolling out a four-part blog series. In the upcoming posts, we’ll cover how to create an IoT business case, overcome capability gaps, and simplify execution;all advice to help you maximize your gains with IoT.
Monday, March 25, 2019
As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and increasingly deploy performance sensitive cloud-native applications, we are excited to announce general availability of Azure Premium Blob Storage.
Monday, March 25, 2019
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure AD based access control for Azure Storage Blobs and Queues. Enterprises can now grant specific data access permissions to users and service identities from Azure AD using Azure’s Role-based access control (RBAC).
Thursday, March 14, 2019
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, and scalable.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
It’s incredible how much and how rapidly technology evolves. Microsoft’s server technology is no exception. We entered the 2008 release cycle with a shift from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, the early days of server virtualization and advanced analytics.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Security can be a never-ending saga—a chronicle of increasingly sophisticated attacks, volumes of alerts, and long resolution timeframes where today’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products can’t keep pace.
Monday, March 18, 2019
How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
As data scientists, we are used to developing and training machine learning models in our favorite Python notebook or an integrated development environment (IDE), like Visual Studio Code (VSCode).
Thursday, February 15, 2018
We understand that the commitments we make about data are essential for any organization. To give customers more control, we’ve updated our Cognitive Services terms for customer data.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Today, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Nedbank, Peace Parks Foundation, and eThekwini water are just a few of the organizations in Africa leveraging Microsoft cloud services today and will benefit from the increased computing resources and connectivity from our new cloud regions.
Monday, September 10, 2018
Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
This month’s updates includes Virtual Network Gateway overview page changes, new full-screen DNS Zone and Load Balancer create blades, management group integration with Activity Log, redesigned overview blades for certain services within Azure Database, multiple changes to the Security Center, and more updates to Intune.
Monday, March 25, 2019
As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and increasingly deploy performance sensitive cloud-native applications, we are excited to announce general availability of Azure Premium Blob Storage.
Monday, March 25, 2019
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure AD based access control for Azure Storage Blobs and Queues. Enterprises can now grant specific data access permissions to users and service identities from Azure AD using Azure’s Role-based access control (RBAC).
Monday, March 25, 2019
Today we’re focusing on how building serverless microservices is a great fit for event-driven scenarios, and how you can use the Azure Serverless platform for that.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disk sizes of up to 32 TiB on Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD disk offerings. In addition, we support disk sizes up to 64 TiB on Ultra Disks in preview.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
It’s incredible how much and how rapidly technology evolves. Microsoft’s server technology is no exception. We entered the 2008 release cycle with a shift from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, the early days of server virtualization and advanced analytics.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
As data scientists, we are used to developing and training machine learning models in our favorite Python notebook or an integrated development environment (IDE), like Visual Studio Code (VSCode).
Thursday, March 21, 2019
We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Security can be a never-ending saga—a chronicle of increasingly sophisticated attacks, volumes of alerts, and long resolution timeframes where today’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products can’t keep pace.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is the fully-managed data integration service for analytics workloads in Azure.
Monday, September 10, 2018
Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.
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