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January 25, 2021
Today, we are announcing the preview of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services.
Read moreMonday, January 25, 2021
With an increasingly complex security landscape and an ever-growing service partner portfolio, how do you stay on top of industry standard best practices? As your business needs grow, you employ more and more partners to support your infrastructure, network, apps, and employees, but with that support comes a required level of access—how do you keep track of who has access to what and what exactly their doing to your resources?
Friday, January 22, 2021
This past year has shown us how important it is to be ready for the unexpected. I spent a lot of time talking with customers, and it was rewarding to hear their stories of using technology to respond quickly to changing business needs.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Each new year introduces new opportunities and challenges, but 2020 was exceptional. The pandemic massively disrupted retail organizations due to ongoing shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements. Consumers adapted, driving nine years’ worth of e-commerce growth in 90 days.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
We would like to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems.
Monday, November 30, 2020
Planning strategic data and analytics initiatives is now critical for helping your organization build the agility and resilience needed to successfully navigate the future.
Monday, November 30, 2020
Get your budget emails in the language of your choice, enjoy a preview of new cost views optimized for resources and reservations, and take advantage of even more ways to save money! November is as action-packed as ever. And don't forget to check out new videos and documentation updates to help you be more successful than ever in driving financial health within your organization.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021.
Monday, November 23, 2020
The financial services industry is a dynamic space that is constantly testing and pushing novel use cases of information technology. Many of its members must balance immense demands—from the pressures to unlock continuous innovation in a landscape with cloud-native entrants, to responding to unexpected surges in demand and extend services to new regions—all while managing risk and combatting financial crime.
Monday, November 23, 2020
We are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for virtual machines guest health feature that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is outside the acceptable range.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
If you have opted for Azure Database for PostgreSQL server, you are probably looking for a fully managed, intelligent, and flexible cloud database service that enables you to focus on building applications while offloading critical management tasks such as availability, scalability, and data protection to the service provider.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Lower your deployment cost, while improving client performance with Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel on premium tier.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Coinciding with this week’s Kubecon and Open Azure Day virtual events, today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Hybrid Benefit functionality for Linux customers, allowing you to bring both your on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) subscriptions to Azure.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Welcome to KubeCon North America. It seems only yesterday that we were together in San Diego. Though we’re farther apart physically this year, the Kubernetes community continues to go strong.
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Over the years, we have had a front-row seat to digital transformation occurring across all industries and regions around the world.
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…
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with the patient engagement.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Each new year introduces new opportunities and challenges, but 2020 was exceptional. The pandemic massively disrupted retail organizations due to ongoing shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements. Consumers adapted, driving nine years’ worth of e-commerce growth in 90 days.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
We are excited to share that Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020 according to DB-Engines, who recently announced their DBMS of the Year award.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Digital transformation is accelerating at an incredible rate for consumers and employees alike, and the way we live and work has drastically changed.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
This blog announces the new cross-database querying capabilities in Azure SQL Database and other improvements to elastic database query.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Today, organizations are showing a growing appetite for solutions that provide a deeper understanding of not just assets, but also the complex interactions across environments.
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, May 7, 2018
As containers become the modern software packaging format, software vendors need to provide their software container images in places where people would expect to discover them such as Docker...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Over the years, we have had a front-row seat to digital transformation occurring across all industries and regions around the world.
Friday, January 22, 2021
This past year has shown us how important it is to be ready for the unexpected. I spent a lot of time talking with customers, and it was rewarding to hear their stories of using technology to respond quickly to changing business needs.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with the patient engagement.
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…
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Each new year introduces new opportunities and challenges, but 2020 was exceptional. The pandemic massively disrupted retail organizations due to ongoing shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements. Consumers adapted, driving nine years’ worth of e-commerce growth in 90 days.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Today I am excited to announce the preview of the B-Series, a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU usage.
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.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Today, organizations are showing a growing appetite for solutions that provide a deeper understanding of not just assets, but also the complex interactions across environments.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Digital transformation is accelerating at an incredible rate for consumers and employees alike, and the way we live and work has drastically changed.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) collects network connection data that you can use to analyze the dependencies and network traffic of your VMs.
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