Data professionals

We are happy to announce the Azure IaaS VM backup support for network restricted storage accounts.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB is now available to provide essential Spring Data support for Azure Cosmos DB using SQL API.

Today, we are delighted to announce increased scale limits for Azure Backup.

At Microsoft, our approach is to listen to customers and bring solutions and tools that can help solve their problems. It is at the heart of everything we do.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

There is increasingly a need among users to develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows iteratively. Now, Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools allow you to do iterative development and debugging.

Data science and machine learning can be applied to solve many common business scenarios, yet there are many barriers preventing organizations from adopting them.

So many customers I talk to want to upload their offline data stores into the cloud.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools public preview was announced on January 16, 2018. With visual tools, you can iteratively build, debug, deploy, operationalize and monitor your big data pipelines.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse recently announced the preview release of the Optimized for Compute performance tier providing customers with an enhanced offering of the service.

Taking advantage of TDE with BYOK for databases that are geo-replicated to maintain high availability requires to configure and test the scenario carefully. This post will go over the most common configuration options.