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On today’s Microsoft Mechanics show, Corey Sanders who heads up the team for Microsoft Azure compute, addresses the tech advantages of Azure Resource Manager Templates for IT.

Application Insights web tests will ping your application from multiple locations to check availability and then alert you when it is down. In this post I will explain how to automatically deploy a web test.

Microsoft and ConsenSys are partnering to offer Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) on Microsoft Azure so Enterprise clients and developers can have a single click cloud based blockchain developer environment.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Cloud Foundry and preview access of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure.

This week, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new and expanded Azure Data Lake making big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible.

We are pleased to introduce Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview, now available on PowerShell Gallery. There are many changes in this preview and we’d like to use it to gather feedback, which we’ll incorporate into Azure PowerShell 1.0.

Over the last few years, we have made many investments in Azure to help you deploy Microsoft applications into the public cloud in an easy and safe way, a Cloud First approach to your application plans.

We are excited to announce we have just made creating Docker Swarm clusters on Azure as simple as only a few clicks.

Azure Container Service builds on our work with Docker and Mesosphere to create and manage scalable clusters of host machines onto which containerized applications can be deployed, orchestrated, and managed.

We are excited to announce Webhooks for Azure Alerts! Configure an HTTP or HTTPS endpoint to route your Azure Alerts.

We are excited to announce full Cloudera Enterprise support on Azure. In this new offering on Azure, Cloudera has expanded production support to include Impala, HBase, Spark, and Solr on Azure.

We are pleased to announce a new open-sourced Azure Storage data movement library for .NET (DML for short).