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Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure

June 22, 2020

Azure provides customers a simple and intuitive way to declaratively provision and manage infrastructure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates.

Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure

Deploy to Azure Container Instances with Docker Desktop

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Today we’re excited about the first release of the new Docker Desktop integration with Microsoft Azure.

Mike Morton Senior Program Manager, Azure Tools

Introducing Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.

Erich Robinson-Tillenburg Program Manager

Streamline connectivity and improve efficiency for remote work using Azure Virtual WAN

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Today, we see a huge shift to remote work due to the global pandemic. Organizations around the world need to enable more of their employees to work remotely.

Reshmi Yandapalli Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking

New Azure maps make identifying local compliance options easy

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Countries around the world are placing more compliance requirements on organizations of all types, and customers want to more easily understand which compliance offerings are available in their…

David Burt Senior Compliance Manager, Azure Trust and Compliance

Security

Minimize disruption with cost-effective backup and disaster recovery solutions on Azure

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Azure provides native cloud solutions for customers to implement simple, secure and cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategies for their applications and data whether they are on-premises or on Azure.

Arpan Shah General Manager, Microsoft Azure

Storage, Backup & Recovery

Making your data residency choices easier with Azure

Thursday, June 18, 2020

We understand that with Azure’s over 200 services, advances in architecture, and data protection promises, there are a lot of options available to customers. To help you make the right decisions, we have summarized the answers to your questions on Azure regions, data residency, data access, and retention.

Christoph Siegert Director International Expansion Engineering, Azure Global

Data Warehouse

Cost optimization strategies for cloud-native application development

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Today, we’ll explore some strategies that you can leverage on Azure to optimize your cloud-native application development process using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and managed databases, such as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Ahmed Sabbour Senior Product Marketing Manager

Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure with virtual machine bursting

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Virtual machine bursting, which is enabled by default, offers you the ability to achieve higher throughput for a short duration on your virtual machine instance with no additional steps or cost.

Alec Becker Program Manager, Azure Storage

Storage, Backup & Recovery

Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – May 2020

Thursday, June 18, 2020

May brings a series of billing improvements to streamline account management, invoicing, and overall Cost Management + Billing navigation within the Azure portal. All this, plus new opportunities and videos to help you save money with Azure.

Michael Flanakin Program Manager, Azure Cost Management

Updates

Seven ways to achieve cost savings and deliver efficiencies with Azure infrastructure

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The global health crisis has transformed the way we work and live. At Microsoft, we are committed to doing what we can to help our customers respond to the crisis and plan ahead for future success.

Arpan Shah General Manager, Microsoft Azure

Cloud Strategy

Optimize your Azure costs to help meet your financial objectives

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

We know that many of our customers are facing difficult decisions about how to meet their funding needs for critical IT projects. We’re here to help you meet your financial objectives to ensure your Azure workloads are cost optimized can help free up funds to support essential surge areas like remote work.

Omar Khan General Manager, Microsoft Azure

Cloud Strategy

Announcing Azure Machine Learning scholarships and courses with Udacity

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

According to LinkedIn’s Emerging Jobs Report for 2020, AI specialist roles are most sought after with a 74 percent annual growth rate in hiring over the last four years. To address this demand, we're pleased to announce our collaboration with Udacity to launch new machine learning courses, for both beginners and advanced users, as well as a scholarship program.

Julia White Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure

Machine Learning

Town of Cary innovates flood prediction with IoT

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

As a leader in innovative city solutions, the Town of Cary saw an opportunity to use technology to predict and manage flood events.

Kirsten M. Walker Principal Program Manager, Azure IoT Business Acceleration

Our commitment to customers and Microsoft cloud services continuity

Saturday, March 21, 2020

With this blog we wanted to share a bit about what we have learned over the last few weeks, resources to help organizations manage through these times, support for critical first responders and emergency organizations, and the criteria we have put in place to manage cloud services capacity to support critical operations.

Microsoft Azure

Updates

Azure responds to COVID-19

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. Over the last several months, we have seen firsthand the role that…

Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure

Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Scale, resiliency, and performance do not happen overnight—it takes sustained and deliberate investment, day over day, and a performance-first mindset to build products that delight our users.

Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure

How Azure.com operates on Azure part 2: Technology and architecture

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

In part two of our two-part series we share our blueprint, so you can learn from our experience building a website on global scale and move forward with your own website transformation.

Aaron Hogue Senior Software Engineer

Cloud Strategy

Azure.com operates on Azure part 1: Design principles and best practices

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

In part one of our two-part series, we will peek behind the Azure.com web page to show you how we think about running a major brand website on a global scale.

Aaron Hogue Senior Software Engineer

Cloud Strategy

Adding Users to Your SQL Azure Database

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…

Microsoft Azure

Storage, Backup & Recovery

Azure Digital Twins: Powering the next generation of IoT connected solutions

Monday, June 29, 2020

Last month at Microsoft Build 2020, we announced the new features for Azure Digital Twins, the IoT platform that enables the creation of next-generation IoT connected solutions that model the real world. Today, we are announcing that these updated capabilities are now available in preview.

Ines Khelifi Principal PM Manager, Azure IoT

New Azure Firewall features in Q2 CY2020

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

We are pleased to announce several new Azure Firewall features that allow your organization to have more customization, improve security, and ease your management experience.

Suren Jamiyanaa Program Manager

Resize virtual machines

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.

Drew McDaniel Principal Program Manager, Azure Compute

Announcing Azure Machine Learning scholarships and courses with Udacity

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Julia White Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure

Machine Learning

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