AzCopy 5.1.1 Release
We are pleased to announce the release of AzCopy 5.1.
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Creating your first data model in Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services is a new preview service in Microsoft Azure where you can host semantic data models.
Clustered Columnstore Index in Azure SQL DatabasePricing TierClustered Columnstore Index in Azure SQL Database
Columnstore index is the preferred technology to run analytics queries in Azure SQL Databases. We recently announced general availability if In-Memory technologies for all Premium databases.
From “A PC on every desktop” to “Deep Learning in every software”
Deep learning is behind many recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, including speech recognition, language understanding and computer vision. At Microsoft, it is changing customer experience in many of our applications and services, including Cortana, Bing, Office 365, SwiftKey, Skype Translate, Dynamics 365, and HoloLens.
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.
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.