February 7, 2019
It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Actuating Mobility in the Enterprise with New Azure Maps Services and SDKs; Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2; Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier; and more!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
To meet customer demand, Azure is continuously expanding. We’ve been adding new Azure regions and introducing new capabilities. As a result, customers want to move their existing virtual machines to new regions while adopting the latest capabilities.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Most IoT solutions, including our Azure IoT reference architecture, use several different services. An IoT message, starting from the device, could flow through a dozen or more services before it is stored or visualized.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will reach retirement this coming June. We recommend that you migrate your classic alert rules defined on your storage accounts, especially if you want to retain alerting functionality with the new alerting platform.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Video Indexer is designed to extract deep insights from video and audio files offline in order to analyze a given media file already created in advance. However, for some use cases it's important to get the media insights from a live feed as quick as possible to unlock operational and other use cases pressed in time.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. The PostgreSQL Community edition helps you easily migrate existing apps to the cloud or develop cloud-native applications using languages and frameworks of your choice.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Kubernetes is going from strength to strength as adoption across the industry continues to grow. But there are still plenty of customers coming to container orchestration for the first time while also building up their familiarity with Docker and containers in general.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Classroom labs in Azure Lab Services make it easy to set up labs by handling the creation and management of virtual machines and enabling the infrastructure to scale.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Actuating Mobility in the Enterprise with New Azure Maps Services and SDKs; Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2; Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier; and more!
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Recently the disclosure of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was announced in the open-source software (OSS) container runtime, runc. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root-level code execution on a "host. runc" which is the underlying container runtime underneath many popular containers.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
The Azure Sphere 19.02 release is available today. In our second quarterly release after public preview, our focus is on broader enablement of device capabilities, reducing your time to market with new reference solutions, and continuing to prioritize features based on feedback from organizations building with Azure Sphere.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.
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.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The IT industry is experiencing a shift from monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures.
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, February 6, 2019
We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and optimize costs across 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.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Drilling for oil and gas is one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Workers are exposed to the risk of events ranging from small equipment malfunctions to entire off shore rigs catching on fire.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Today, we’re releasing the Azure API for FHIR which enables rapid exchange of data according to the HL7 FHIR specification and is backed by a fully managed Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) offering in the cloud. Scalable and secure ingestion, management, and persistence of Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, provisioned and running in just minutes.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Today we announced the general availability of the Microsoft Healthcare Bot in the Azure Marketplace. The Microsoft Healthcare Bot is a cloud service that powers conversational AI for healthcare.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Today, we are announcing Windows Virtual Desktop, the best virtualized Windows and Office experience delivered on Azure.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Kubernetes is going from strength to strength as adoption across the industry continues to grow. But there are still plenty of customers coming to container orchestration for the first time while also building up their familiarity with Docker and containers in general.
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, February 20, 2019
Classroom labs in Azure Lab Services make it easy to set up labs by handling the creation and management of virtual machines and enabling the infrastructure to scale.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Video Indexer is designed to extract deep insights from video and audio files offline in order to analyze a given media file already created in advance. However, for some use cases it's important to get the media insights from a live feed as quick as possible to unlock operational and other use cases pressed in time.
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.
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.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Today, we are announcing Windows Virtual Desktop, the best virtualized Windows and Office experience delivered on Azure.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. The PostgreSQL Community edition helps you easily migrate existing apps to the cloud or develop cloud-native applications using languages and frameworks of your choice.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Serverless and PaaS are all about unleashing developer productivity by reducing the management burden and allowing you to focus on what matters most, your application logic.
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