In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database
In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database improves performance and introduces cost savings for transaction processing, data ingestion, and transient data scenarios.
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Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL database service in 2016
Earlier today we published the paper “Total Cost of (Non) Ownership (TCO) of NoSQL databases in 2016.” comparing TCO of hosting OSS NoSQL databases on-premises and Azure Virtual Machines, and using managed NoSQL database as a service like Azure DocumentDB.
Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
We’re excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.
The Intelligent Data Lake
The general availability of Azure Data Lake ushers in a new era of productivity for your big data developers and scientists.
Microsoft Azure Announces Industry’s First Cloud Bot-as-a-Service
We are thrilled by the surprisingly large number of bots, tools, channels and the overall vibrancy and excitement within the developer community since our launch of Bot Framework on Github in March. The democratization of AI and the advancement of conversational canvasses are well underway.
Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps
Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled performance with In-Memory technologies
In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).
Azure DocumentDB updates: quick start experience, backup and restore, and firewall support
Over the past couple weeks the DocumentDB team released a number of improvements to developer experience and capabilities of DocumentDB. We added a new quick start experience helping you to get up and running with a working app on DocumentDB in seconds.
Project Bletchley – Blockchain comes to Azure Marketplace
We are excited to expand support of Bletchley v1 into the Azure Marketplace and add many new partners to our growing ecosystem.
Azure SQL Database: Now supporting up to 10 years of Backup Retention (Public Preview)
Azure SQL Database now supports backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. This allows you easily extend the built-it retention period from 35 days to up to 10 years.
Microsoft reimagines open source cloud hardware
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking at Zettastructure: The European Digital Infrastructure Summit hosted by Datacenter Dynamics in London.
An important milestone in enterprise integration – launch of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016
Today marks the release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016.