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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.
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Better scale and more power for IT professionals and developers! Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files.
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 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.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Today Microsoft published an independent security assessment of 113 Microsoft Azure services for their suitability to handle official and PROTECTED Australian government information.
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, September 30, 2019
The tech world is fast-paced, and cloud services like Azure Cosmos DB get frequent updates with new features, capabilities, and improvements.
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.
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…
Thursday, September 26, 2019
This is the second in a four-part blog series on Designing A Great SAP on Azure Architecture. In the first part of our blog series we have covered the topic of Designing for Security.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
This month we released a new version of Azure Storage Explorer, 1.10.0. This latest version of Storage Explorer introduces several exciting new features and delivers significant updates to existing functionality.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
To get the most out of your Azure investment and run as efficiently as possible, we recommend that you regularly review and optimize your resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. That’s why we created Azure Advisor, a free Azure service that helps you quickly and easily optimize your Azure resources with personalized recommendations based on your usage and configurations.
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 21, 2019
Today, Microsoft becomes the first cloud with a fully managed, first-party service to ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the native FHIR format. The Azure API for FHIR® is releasing today in generally availability to all Azure customers.The core mission in healthcare is to deliver better health outcomes, and the data standard fueling the future of that mission is FHIR.
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.
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 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 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.
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, 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 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…
Monday, October 21, 2019
Today, Microsoft becomes the first cloud with a fully managed, first-party service to ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the native FHIR format. The Azure API for FHIR® is releasing today in generally availability to all Azure customers.The core mission in healthcare is to deliver better health outcomes, and the data standard fueling the future of that mission is FHIR.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Welcome back to another release of the unified Azure Data client libraries. For the most part, the API surface areas of the SDKs have been stabilized based on your feedback.
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, 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.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Robust SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of Security, Performance and Scalability, Availability and Recoverability, and Efficiency and Operations. Within this blog we will a cover a range of Azure services and a new GitHub repository which can support operational efficiencies for your SAP applications running on Azure.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
As cloud growth continues to unlock opportunities for our customers, cloud migration is increasingly important for business’s digital strategy. Today, I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Movere, an innovative technology provider in the cloud migration space.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Today, most applications are running online transactional processing (OLTP) transactions.
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 23, 2019
Providing our customers with choice and flexibility is central to our mission around blockchain in Azure. Today, we are pleased to introduce that we are bringing managed Corda Enterprise to Azure Blockchain Service.
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