A technical overview of Azure Databricks
Today at Microsoft Connect(); we introduced Azure Databricks, an exciting new service in preview that brings together the best of the Apache Spark analytics platform and Azure cloud…
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Introducing Azure Databricks, Azure Cosmos DB with Apache Cassandra API, and Azure Database for MariaDB, to name a few…
Announcing general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Bash in Azure Cloud Shell. Bash in Cloud Shell provides an interactive web-based, Linux command-line experience from virtually anywhere. Learn more about Bash in Cloud Shell at aka.ms/cloudshell/bash.
Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Time Series Insights
Today, we announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Time Series Insights (TSI).
New NVIDIA GPUs coming to Azure accelerate HPC and AI workloads
Machine Learning, AI, and HPC are changing the way every industry thinks, including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. These large computations are changing product design, end-customer experiences, enabling predictive support and leading to discoveries and innovations not previously possible.
Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent.
Announcing automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets
Infrastructure scale and complexityWhen Azure virtual machine scale sets were introduced, we made it easy to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure at very large scale.
Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana
Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. v0.1.0 of the Azure Monitor Data Source plugin has now added support for the Azure US Government, Azure Germany, and Azure China clouds.
General availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack
We’re pleased to share that Azure App Service and Functions are now generally available on Azure Stack.
Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute in preview
We are happy to announce the preview of ExpressRoute monitoring using Network Performance Monitor (NPM). With NPM, you can now monitor end-to-end connectivity and performance between your branch offices and VNETs in Azure, over ExpressRoute.
Device provisioning: Identity attestation with TPM
Folks using the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service to securely provision their devices are taking the opportunity to start using hardware security modules (HSM) to store the keys on their devices.
Automatic tuning will be a new default
Automatic tuning, technology that continuously monitors and automatically improves database performance in SQL Database, will be enabled by default in the upcoming period.