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April 9, 2019
We all want the truth. To properly assess your cloud analytics provider, ask them about the only three things that matter: independent benchmark results, company-wide access to insights, and security & privacy.
Monday, April 22, 2019
Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopyAzCopy v10 (Preview) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data; Announcing general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight; Announcing Azure Government Secret private preview and expansion of DoD IL5; Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers; and much more.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Today’s announcement of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) is a milestone in the maturity of the blockchain industry. The initiative brings together some of the most important blockchain platforms from the Ethereum ecosystem, Hyperledger and IBM, Intel, R3, and Digital Asset in a joint effort to establish a common taxonomy for tokens.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
We are pleased to share the capability to rewrite HTTP headers in Azure Application Gateway. With this, you can add, remove, or update HTTP request and response headers while the request and response packets move between the client and backend application.
Monday, April 22, 2019
More and more services are moving to the cloud and they bring their security challenges with them. In this blog post, we will focus on the security concerns of container environments.
Monday, April 22, 2019
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cost Management features for all Pay-As-You-Go and Azure Government customers that will greatly enhance your ability to analyze and proactively manage your cloud costs.
Monday, April 22, 2019
Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopyAzCopy v10 (Preview) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data; Announcing general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight; Announcing Azure Government Secret private preview and expansion of DoD IL5; Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers; and much more.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Standing up a data pipeline for the first time can be a challenge and decisions you make at the start of a project can limit your choices long after the initial deployment has been rolled out. Often what is needed is a playground in which to learn about and evaluate the available options and capabilities in the solution space.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Transparency is an important part of public safety projects. Officials must know what is happening in real time, as well as be able to collaborate with others involved in the project.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the new Azure HDInsight management SDKs for .NET, Python, and Java.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Microsoft Azure is uniquely positioned to help you meet your compliance obligations. Customers need to identify risks and conduct a full risk assessment before committing to a cloud service, as well as comply with strict regulations to ensure the privacy, security, access, and continuity of their cloud environment and downstream customer data in cloud.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
This article is the second in a four-part series designed to help companies maximize their ROI on the Internet of Things (IoT). In the first post, we discussed how IoT can transform businesses.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Today’s announcement of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) is a milestone in the maturity of the blockchain industry. The initiative brings together some of the most important blockchain platforms from the Ethereum ecosystem, Hyperledger and IBM, Intel, R3, and Digital Asset in a joint effort to establish a common taxonomy for tokens.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Azure and Sylabs announced today a new collaboration which enables Singularity container images to be stored in registries supporting the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Distribution Specification. Singularity version 3.0 defines a new secure Singularity Image Format (SIF).
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Optimizing your cloud workloads can seem like a complex and daunting task. We created Azure Advisor, a personalized guide to Azure best practices, to make it easier to get the most out of Azure.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Grafana is one of the popular and leading open source tools for visualizing time series metrics.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Today we’re announcing a significant milestone in serving our mission customers from cloud to edge with the initial availability of two new Azure Government Secret regions, now in private preview and pending accreditation.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Every internet facing web application, whether serving a large audience or a small set of users in a single region, is by default a global application. Whether you are running a large news website with millions of users across the globe, running a B2B application for managing your sales channels or a local pastry shop in a city – your users are distributed/roaming across multiple locations, or your application demands deployment into multiple locations for high availability or disaster recovery scenarios.
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 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, April 8, 2019
In June 2018, we released the App Service Migration Assessment Tool. The Assessment Tool was designed to help customers quickly and easily assess whether a site could be moved to Azure App Service by scanning an externally accessible (HTTP) endpoint.
Monday, April 8, 2019
Using Azure Cosmos DB, Skype replaced three monolithic, geographically isolated data stores with a single, globally distributed user data service that delivers better throughput, lower latencies, and improved availability.
Monday, April 8, 2019
Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft. It gave Skype everything needed for its new People Core Service (PCS), including turnkey global distribution and elastic scaling of throughput and storage, making it an ideal foundation for distributed apps like Skype that require extremely low latency at global scale.
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.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
AzCopy v10 (Preview) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data source. You can now copy an entire AWS S3 bucket, or even multiple buckets, to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Today we’re announcing a significant milestone in serving our mission customers from cloud to edge with the initial availability of two new Azure Government Secret regions, now in private preview and pending accreditation.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Designed for developers and solution architects who need to understand how to move business critical apps to the cloud, this online workshop series gets you hands-on with a proven process for migrating an existing ASP.NET based application to a container based application. Join us live for 90 minutes on Wednesday and Fridays through May 3 to get expert guidance and to get your questions answered.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
We are very excited to announce the Azure Functions Premium plan in preview, our newest Functions hosting model! This plan enables a suite of long requested scaling and connectivity options without compromising on event-based scale.
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.
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, April 15, 2019
Want to evaluate your cloud analytics provider? Here are the three questions to ask.; Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure; Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications; and much more
Monday, April 8, 2019
When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere FXT Edge Filer.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Optimizing your cloud workloads can seem like a complex and daunting task. We created Azure Advisor, a personalized guide to Azure best practices, to make it easier to get the most out of Azure.
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