September 14, 2017
Microsoft spends one billion dollars per year on cybersecurity and much of that goes to making Microsoft Azure the most trusted cloud platform. From strict physical datacenter security, ensuring data…
Thursday, September 14, 2017
A common challenge in cloud development is managing the credentials used to authenticate to cloud services. Today, I am happy to announce the Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MSI) preview...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
With the introduction of Event Grid, Microsoft Azure now offers an even greater choice of messaging infrastructure options. The expanded messaging service fleet consists of the Service Bus message broker, the Event Hubs streaming platform, and the new Event Grid event distribution service...
Monday, September 11, 2017
Today I am excited to announce the preview of the B-Series, a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU usage. For many workloads that run in Azure,…
Thursday, September 21, 2017
We had announced the availability of Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files for the first OS distribution - Ubuntu 17.04, in April. Today, we are happy to share that more Linux distributions now include this functionality, which will allow on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Last month 31 great new cloud offerings were published to Azure Marketplace. Check ‘em out!
Thursday, September 21, 2017
IoT Hub has a new custom endpoint type available: Azure Storage containers! Azure Storage containers joins Service Bus queues, topics, and Event Hubs as supported custom endpoint types for IoT Hub…
Thursday, September 21, 2017
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services in the Microsoft Cloud for Government. Based on the proven analytics engine in SQL Server Analysis…
Thursday, September 21, 2017
In July, we released the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This new browser-based experience allows developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly…
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
We’re excited and proud to announce that Microsoft Azure is the first hyper-scale cloud computing platform to be able to service UK law enforcement IT customers. This announcement comes in the wake…
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
As part of Microsoft’s mission to enable more customers and organizations worldwide to achieve more, Azure IoT Hub is expanding within 4 countries across 3 continents, with availability now in Azure UK South, UK West, Canada Central, Canada East, India Central, India South, East US2 and Central US.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
One of the fastest areas of growth in cloud computing is around data storage. We are excited to announce improvements in the capacity and scalability of standard Azure storage accounts, which greatly improves your experience building cloud-scale applications using Azure Storage.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
GoalAny number of tweets tell individual stories on how our customers are planning to use Azure Stack to unlock new possibilities for hybrid cloud environments. In today’s world, security is…
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R…
Friday, September 8, 2017
Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
I’m thrilled to announce the preview release of Enterprise Cost Management within the Azure portal. With today’s release, Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) users can view and analyze their subscription costs across different pivots, within the Azure portal.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Applications are changing the pace of business today – from delivering amazing customer experiences, to transforming internal operations. To keep pace, developers need solutions that help them…
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Recently, I worked on a Service Fabric solution for a customer, where my team had to configure secure communication capabilities to existing reliable (stateless) services, built on top of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework. This article will highlight key aspects and describe a way to properly configure a Service Fabric (SF) Reliable Service Stateless Service, given these requisites.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Today, we announced the general availability of Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers. Providing Linux support in Azure App Service is an important step towards our commitment to support variety of OSS stacks on the platform.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Today we're announcing the public preview of the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service! The Device Provisioning Service is a new service that works with Azure IoT Hub to enable customers to configure zero-touch device provisioning to their IoT hub.
Monday, January 30, 2017
The goal of Microsoft’s decentralized identity initiative is to give people and organizations control of their identity and related data. We’re building technology that lets users sign data, claims, or agreements with their identities. These bits of identity-signed data are called attestations. Microsoft and Tierion are collaborating on a service that generates, manages, and validates attestations. Together we’re exploring how this technology serves the needs of developers and organizations.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
In this blog post, I will walk you through some of the new capabilities we have in our template language expressions for Azure Resource Manager templates.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Announcing the 2017–2018 Microsoft Tech Summit global tour! Build your skills with the latest in cloud technologies at a free, technical learning event for IT professionals and developers, coming to…
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
One of the fastest areas of growth in cloud computing is around data storage. We are excited to announce improvements in the capacity and scalability of standard Azure storage accounts, which greatly improves your experience building cloud-scale applications using Azure Storage.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Just one month ago, we announced our increased investment in Terraform. It is amazing to see the progress we have already made together with HashiCorp and the Terraform community. In the last month…
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
GoalAny number of tweets tell individual stories on how our customers are planning to use Azure Stack to unlock new possibilities for hybrid cloud environments. In today’s world, security is…
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R…
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
I’m thrilled to announce the preview release of Enterprise Cost Management within the Azure portal. With today’s release, Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) users can view and analyze their subscription costs across different pivots, within the Azure portal.
Monday, June 21, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]When you generate a SQL Azure server via the SQL Azure portal, you generate a user name and password at the same time. This is your administrative…
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
The AzureCAT patterns & practices team has published nine new design patterns on the Azure Architecture Center. These nine patterns are particularly useful when designing and implementing…
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
We’re excited and proud to announce that Microsoft Azure is the first hyper-scale cloud computing platform to be able to service UK law enforcement IT customers. This announcement comes in the wake…
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Today we’re announcing the public preview of Archive Blob Storage designed to help organizations reduce their storage costs even further by storing rarely accessed data in our lowest-priced tier yet. Furthermore, we’re excited to introduce the public preview of Blob-Level Tiering enabling you to optimize storage costs by easily managing the lifecycle of your data across these tiers at the object level.
