Azure VM Scale Sets public preview
VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set.
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Microsoft Azure IoT Suite – Connecting Your Things to the Cloud
At Microsoft, we believe the Internet of Things starts with your things, and our Azure services and solutions help companies quickly realize great business outcomes using both current and new IoT devices.
Announcing a new partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat
Microsoft and Red Hat announced a new strategic partnership that extends our commitment to offer unmatched choice and flexibility across the hybrid cloud.
Transactional Replication to Azure SQL DB now in public preview
Learn how to replicate your data from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL DB.
Dev-Test Starts with IT: Create simple, cloud-only dev-test configurations using Resource Manager templates
Azure makes it easy to set up a dev-test environment for your applications and all of their components: web app, database, database server, storage, and any third-party services.
An early look at Containers: Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and Azure with Mark Russinovich
On the season premiere of Microsoft Mechanics, we demo the new container technology within Windows Server 2016, including a hands-on look at Hyper-V Containers and upcoming milestones for Azure, with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich.
Follow Azure updates on the new Microsoft Mechanics
Today marks the launch of Microsoft Mechanics our official new show and video platform for IT professionals and tech enthusiasts.
Dev-Test Starts with IT: Set up a LOB application in a hybrid cloud for testing
There’s a much faster way to create the infrastructure you need to deploy and test a tiered, web-based line-of-business application (LOB app). Azure makes it easy to simulate a LOB app production environment from your location on the Internet.
Sampling in Application Insights: How to keep the volume of your telemetry under control
Modern applications with many users can generate a lot of telemetry data. While it is a pretty common (and almost always wrong) perception that you absolutely must collect every piece of the application telemetry, doing so may come at a high price.
Dev-Test Starts With IT: Set up a SharePoint farm in a hybrid cloud for testing
As part of your hybrid cloud environment for testing, Azure helps you set up a SharePoint farm you can use to develop SharePoint applications, test for capacity and performance, or create an IT pro proof-of-concept configuration for learning and experimentation prior to deploying SharePoint in
Cross-Database Queries in Azure SQL Database
This blog announces the new cross-database querying capabilities in Azure SQL Database and other improvements to elastic database query.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled data security in the cloud with Always Encrypted
From the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, data security is increasingly top of mind for all businesses, especially as they continue to target the cloud for both new and existing applications.