Last week in Azure: Migrating VMWare environments to Azure, and more
Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 20, 2017: Transforming your VMWare environment with Azure, Azure Advisor updates, and more.
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Introducing Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview
Azure Automation has the ability to integrate and automate processes across Azure and on-premises environments using a hybrid worker. This hybrid management capability has been extended to now deliver an automatic response to events in your datacenter using watcher tasks.
Launching preview of Azure Migrate
At Microsoft Ignite 2017, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance, insights, and mechanisms to assist you in migrating to Azure.
Get notified when Azure service incidents impact your resources
When an Azure service incident affects you, we know that it is critical that you are equipped with all the information necessary to mitigate any potential impact.
Azure Advisor – your personalized best practices service got better
Azure Advisor – your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that helps you optimize Azure resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost.
Time to migrate off Access Control Service
Access Control Service, otherwise known as ACS, is officially being retired. ACS will remain available for existing customers until November 2018. After this date, ACS will be shut down, causing all requests to the service to fail.
Expanding AI tools and resources for developers and data scientists on Azure
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. Our mission is to bring AI to every developer and every organization on the planet, and help businesses augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways.
A technical overview of Azure Databricks
Today at Microsoft Connect(); we introduced Azure Databricks, an exciting new service in preview that brings together the best of the Apache Spark analytics platform and Azure cloud…
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Introducing Azure Databricks, Azure Cosmos DB with Apache Cassandra API, and Azure Database for MariaDB, to name a few…
Announcing general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Bash in Azure Cloud Shell. Bash in Cloud Shell provides an interactive web-based, Linux command-line experience from virtually anywhere. Learn more about Bash in Cloud Shell at aka.ms/cloudshell/bash.
Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent.
Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana
Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. v0.1.0 of the Azure Monitor Data Source plugin has now added support for the Azure US Government, Azure Germany, and Azure China clouds.