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October 8, 2019
As customers have moved their workloads to the cloud, we’ve seen a growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices.
Read moreThursday, October 10, 2019
One of the best ways to speed up securing your cloud deployments is to focus on the most impactful security best practices. Best practices for securing any service begins with a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity risk and how to manage it.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Who spends their summer at the Microsoft Garage New England Research & Development Center (or “NERD”)? The Garage Internship seeks out students who are hungry to learn, not afraid to try new things, and able to step out of their comfort zones when faced with ambiguous situations.
Monday, October 7, 2019
In today’s data-driven world, big data processing is a critical task for every organization. To unlock transformational insights and embrace a data-driven culture, companies need tools to help them easily integrate and transform data at scale, without requiring specialized skills.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
We are excited to share the winners of the first Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon, hosted on Devpost. Developers of all backgrounds and skill levels were welcome to join and submit any form of AI project, whether using Azure AI to enhance existing apps with pre-trained machine learning (ML) models, or by building ML models from scratch.
Monday, October 14, 2019
The release of the Application Insights ASP.NET Core 2.8.0 SDK for Web Applications and the Application Insights Worker Service 2.8.0 SDK for Non-web Applications delivers new value to developers.
Monday, October 14, 2019
More companies are choosing Azure for their SQL workloads, and it is easy to see why.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
One of the best ways to speed up securing your cloud deployments is to focus on the most impactful security best practices. Best practices for securing any service begins with a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity risk and how to manage it.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Who spends their summer at the Microsoft Garage New England Research & Development Center (or “NERD”)? The Garage Internship seeks out students who are hungry to learn, not afraid to try new things, and able to step out of their comfort zones when faced with ambiguous situations.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
As customers have moved their workloads to the cloud, we’ve seen a growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices.
Monday, October 7, 2019
This is the second in a four-part blog series on Designing A Great SAP on Azure Architecture. Robust SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of Security, Performance and Scalability, Availability and Recoverability, Efficiency and Operations.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Azure storage offers several options to encrypt data at rest. With client-side encryption you can encrypt data prior to uploading it to Azure Storage.
Monday, October 7, 2019
I’m pleased to announce the release of Microsoft Azure is Helping Organizations Manage Regulatory Challenges More Effectively, a new International Data Corporation (IDC) white paper based on original research by IDC and sponsored by Microsoft.
Monday, October 7, 2019
In today’s data-driven world, big data processing is a critical task for every organization. To unlock transformational insights and embrace a data-driven culture, companies need tools to help them easily integrate and transform data at scale, without requiring specialized skills.
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.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
A data-driven culture is critical for businesses to thrive in today’s environment. In fact, a brand-new Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey found that companies who embrace a data-driven culture experience a 4x improvement in revenue performance and better customer satisfaction.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Since we announced the preview of Windows Virtual Desktop in March, thousands of customers have piloted the service, providing valuable feedback and insights for Microsoft to integrate into the…
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Through the rapidly growing adoption of Azure, customers need to access the data and services privately and securely from their networks grow exponentially. To help with this, we’re announcing the preview of Azure Private Link.
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, 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, October 3, 2019
We are excited to announce the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks. Today, there are two ways you can bring your on-premises VHD to Azure as managed disks.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Built-in Jupyter notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB are now publicly available. Developers, data scientists, engineers and analysts can use the familiar Jupyter notebooks experience to interactively run queries, explore and analyze data, visualize data & build, train, and run machine learning and AI models.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
One of the great benefits of Azure VMs is the ability to change the size of your VM based on the needs for CPU, Network or disk performance. Learn how to change the size of a virtual machine using either Azure Classic Compute VMs or the newer Azure Resource Manager VMs.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management comes in! Learn more about the latest updates from Azure Cost Management, including a new invoice details view, exporting costs across subscriptions, downloading charts as an image, and more!
Monday, October 14, 2019
More companies are choosing Azure for their SQL workloads, and it is easy to see why.
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, October 14, 2019
The release of the Application Insights ASP.NET Core 2.8.0 SDK for Web Applications and the Application Insights Worker Service 2.8.0 SDK for Non-web Applications delivers new value to developers.
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, 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, October 3, 2019
A data-driven culture is critical for businesses to thrive in today’s environment. In fact, a brand-new Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey found that companies who embrace a data-driven culture experience a 4x improvement in revenue performance and better customer satisfaction.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Through the rapidly growing adoption of Azure, customers need to access the data and services privately and securely from their networks grow exponentially. To help with this, we’re announcing the preview of Azure Private Link.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
One of the great benefits of Azure VMs is the ability to change the size of your VM based on the needs for CPU, Network or disk performance. Learn how to change the size of a virtual machine using either Azure Classic Compute VMs or the newer Azure Resource Manager VMs.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Since we announced the preview of Windows Virtual Desktop in March, thousands of customers have piloted the service, providing valuable feedback and insights for Microsoft to integrate into the…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Today, we are excited to announce Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) with keys managed by Microsoft for Managed Disks.
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