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Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.

We are excited to announce the preview release of alerting and monitoring for Azure backups, which is currently the top-voted idea on Azure backup UserVoice.

Now you can continuously monitor any Analytics query computed from your telemetry in Visual Studio Application Insights, and display the results on an Azure shared dashboard.

How backups are stored impacts storage and network efficiencies. Incremental backups is a technology used by Azure Backup to efficiently store the backups to save on network and storage.

The Application Insights team just added support to create work items (issues) in GitHub directly from Application Insights.

This post details the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal, an open source application for tracking and viewing usage and billing across multiple subscriptions in Azure.

This article describes the steps to set up monetization of APIs hosted in Azure API Management. Code samples are provided to help you set up integration with your chosen payment provider.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our guidance article on disaster recovery and high availability for applications built on Microsoft Azure, as well as separate guides for disaster recovery and high availability.

On June 28th, Microsoft will be hosting a joint webinar with Cloudera & Zoomdata to walk you through using data and insights to drive strategic business value.

We’re happy to announce a number of updates to our line of Azure Search service tiers.

Today, we are pleased to announce that Apache Spark v1.6.1 for Azure HDInsight is generally available. With GA, we are revealing improvements to the availability, scalability, and productivity of our managed Spark service.