Developers

The Azure Relay service was amongst the initial core set of services available on Azure, and is a fundamental hybrid cloud integration tool for many current solutions running on Azure.

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.

Today marks the release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016.

Today I am with over 600 of our federal, state and local government customers and partners at the Government Cloud Forum 2016, in Washington D.C.

A pivotal day today as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a Mastermind Keynote at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, discussing Microsoft’s differentiated cloud for global good and how not all clouds are created equal.

Recently we released several updates to Azure DocumentDB portal experience. We added a new consolidated metrics experience which includes new metrics for availability, throughput, consistency, and latency which allows you to track how DocumentDB is meeting its SLA.

Many of our customers have requested the ability to use Azure API Management to create a proxy for their SOAP APIs in the same way that we allow them to for REST/HTTP APIs, enabling developer portal integration, analytics, policies etc

One C# statement to authenticate. One statement to create a virtual machine. One statement to modify an existing virtual network, etc. No more guessing about what is required vs. optional vs. non-modifiable.

I’m super excited to recap a busy month of service launches and releases.

We’re excited to be releasing a preview that introduces native Linux support for Node.js and PHP stacks.

North Bridge, a leading venture capital firm, Wikibon, a worldwide community of practitioners, technologists and consultants dedicated to improving the technology adoption, have partnered to launch the sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey.

We are happy to announce an exciting new capability we’ve added to the IoT Gateway SDK: Support for Azure Functions. With Azure Functions integration, developers can easily call cloud-based logic from their IoT gateway.