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December 18, 2017

6 min read

Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new capabilities

Today, we are really happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Azure HDInsight service and making several awesome capabilities generally available.
December 18, 2017

5 min read

Last week in Azure: Azure France regions, cost savings, and more

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of December 11, 2017: Azure France regions available in preview with availability zones, new management & cost savings, and more
December 13, 2017

5 min read

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding, enabling developers to build better conversational bots

Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society.
December 13, 2017

7 min read

Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage

Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Archive Blob Storage.
December 13, 2017

17 min read

Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding

Microsoft brings the latest advanced chatbot capabilities to developers’ fingertips, allowing them to create apps that see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret users’ needs — using natural…
Thought leadership

December 12, 2017

7 min read

How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs

This blog post will review how engineering model transformations, driven by cloud requirements, resulted in several improvements in how we build, ship and service SQL Server.
December 11, 2017

5 min read

Last week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more

Last week in Azure brought Open Service Broker for Azure, community projects and partnerships to extend what you can do with Kubernetes and Azure, and several storage-optimized and burstable VM sizes are now available in GA.
Thought leadership

December 6, 2017

2 min read

Connect your applications to Azure with Open Service Broker for Azure

I’m excited to announce today a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), an implementation of the Open Service Broker API for Azure services.
Thought leadership

December 6, 2017

2 min read

Announcing ONNX 1.0 – An open ecosystem for AI

Today we are announcing that Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is production-ready.
Best practices

December 6, 2017

5 min read

Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Database services for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Build 2017 which is a simple, fully managed database service for PostgreSQL and MySQL that removes the…
Best practices

November 30, 2017

2 min read

ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) supports Python & R Programming

We are excited to introduce the integration of Azure Data Lake (ADL) Python & R extensions into Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which allows you to easily edit Python or R scripts for your custom…
November 29, 2017

4 min read

Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs

We are pleased to announce that Azure Analysis Services is integrated with Azure Monitor Resource Diagnostic Logs.

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