Data professionals

Last week at //Build, Microsoft announced some exciting new technology called the Bot Framework. It allows developers to create intelligent bots to interact with users in a natural way.

We are excited to announce a set of new features allowing you to gain deeper insights on the operations of your Azure resources as well as manage and consume this data in flexible ways.

Developing cloud applications presents a unique opportunity for businesses to reach new markets and customers that span the globe.

New ways to discover Blockchain as a Service, new partners added – Expanse, Influx, Monero, Radium and Tendermint. Manifold’s endpoint also now available.

A recent article and code sample I produced with Dinar Gainitdinov shows how to build a simple application to run some complex joins and queries then push the updated records to an Azure Event Hub.

Today we announce the Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage open source on GitHub, allowing you to store persistent data in containers and migrate them between hosts easily with the Linux SMB capabilities of Azure File Storage.

Yet another busy week in the evolving ecosystem of blockchain technologies. New partners include Augur, Lisk, BitShares, Syscoin and Slock.it.

We released a new Application Insights Labs SDK specifically for monitoring WCF applications. Although Application Insights SDK for .NET Web Applications already supports HTTP-based WCF applications, it has never been optimized for WCF specifics.

One of the features in the recently released Update 2 of StorSimple was the integration of StorSimple with Azure Site Recovery.

Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps, STRATO, in addition to AlphaPoint and IOTA joining the Blockchain as a Service ecosystem.

With Azure Search and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) you can provide full text search over text in images files.

We are glad to announce the public release of new Azure Data Factory (ADF) Monitoring & Management App.