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February 5, 2020
When running IT systems on-premises, you might try to ensure perfect availability by having gold-plated hardware, locking up the server room and throwing away the key. Software wise, IT would traditionally prevent as much change as possible – avoiding applying updates to the OS and/or applications because they’re too critical, and pushing back on change requests from users.
Read moreThursday, February 13, 2020
SQL Server customers that are migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
This Azure-only capability enables customers to run their most IO intensive workloads, without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for failover and high availability.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
At Microsoft, we’ve expanded our partnerships, including Volkswagen, LG Electronics, Faurecia, TomTom, and more, and taken the wraps off new thinking such as at CES, where we recently demonstrated our approach to in-vehicle compute and software architecture.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
We announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT in July 2019. Since then, we have seen a lot of interest from both our customers and partners.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall capabilities based on your top feedback items:
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Last November we introduced Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager preview for Azure Firewall policy and route management in secured virtual hubs.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
An ever-increasing number of enterprises, even as they adopt a hybrid IT strategy, continue to retain mission-critical data on-premises, and look towards the public cloud as an effective offsite for their backups. Azure Backup—Azure’s built-in data-protection solution, provides a simple, secure and cost-effective mechanism to backup these data-assets over the network to Azure, while eliminating on-premises backup infrastructure.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
SQL Server customers that are migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
This Azure-only capability enables customers to run their most IO intensive workloads, without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for failover and high availability.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
At Microsoft, we’ve expanded our partnerships, including Volkswagen, LG Electronics, Faurecia, TomTom, and more, and taken the wraps off new thinking such as at CES, where we recently demonstrated our approach to in-vehicle compute and software architecture.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
When running IT systems on-premises, you might try to ensure perfect availability by having gold-plated hardware, locking up the server room and throwing away the key. Software wise, IT would traditionally prevent as much change as possible – avoiding applying updates to the OS and/or applications because they’re too critical, and pushing back on change requests from users.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Today, we are pleased to share the preview of Backup Explorer. Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor Workbook enabling you to have a single pane of glass for performing real-time monitoring across your entire backup estate on Azure. It comes completely out-of-the-box, with no additional costs, via native integration with Azure Resource Graph and Azure Workbooks.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Hyperledger Fabric on Azure Kubernetes Service solution template
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Today we’re pleased to introduce the release of Data Protection and Privacy Compliance in the Cloud: Privacy Concerns Are Not Slowing the Adoption of Cloud Services, but Challenges Remain, original research sponsored by Microsoft and independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Today, we are pleased to share the preview of Backup Explorer. Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor Workbook enabling you to have a single pane of glass for performing real-time monitoring across your entire backup estate on Azure. It comes completely out-of-the-box, with no additional costs, via native integration with Azure Resource Graph and Azure Workbooks.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
For more than a decade, Microsoft has been investing to reduce environmental impact while supporting the digital transformation of organizations around the world through cloud services.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Last November we introduced Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager preview for Azure Firewall policy and route management in secured virtual hubs.
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.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall capabilities based on your top feedback items:
Monday, November 4, 2019
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health.
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, 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…
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 18, 2020
Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall capabilities based on your top feedback items:
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
An ever-increasing number of enterprises, even as they adopt a hybrid IT strategy, continue to retain mission-critical data on-premises, and look towards the public cloud as an effective offsite for their backups. Azure Backup—Azure’s built-in data-protection solution, provides a simple, secure and cost-effective mechanism to backup these data-assets over the network to Azure, while eliminating on-premises backup infrastructure.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
We announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT in July 2019. Since then, we have seen a lot of interest from both our customers and partners.
Monday, October 14, 2019
More companies are choosing Azure for their SQL workloads, and it is easy to see why.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Last November we introduced Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager preview for Azure Firewall policy and route management in secured virtual hubs.
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 23, 2019
Today, Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications and Industry, announced several new AI-driven insights applications for Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Azure Security Center now helps streamline this process of meeting compliance standards with the new regulatory compliance dashboard, recently released to public preview.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Introduction As a follow-up to my March 1 posting, I want to share the findings of our root cause analysis of the service disruption of February 29th. We know that many of our customers were…
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