IT decision makers

With scale-out, client queries can be distributed among multiple query replicas in a query pool, reducing response times during high query workloads.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 30, 2017: Azure capacity growth in China, GA of Azure Managed Applications, Azure Security Center updates, registration opened for Microsoft Connect(); 2017, and more

Announcing the Linux FUSE adapter for Blob Storage. Now you can mount a blob container on Linux and access via the Linux file system.

In-memory attacks are on the rise and attracting increasing attention. In this post, we will describe two in-memory attack techniques and show how these can be detected using Sysmon and Azure Security Center.

I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Applications in the Azure Marketplace. Managed Applications, an Azure unique offering, enables you to deploy entire applications and empower your partner to fully manage and maintain the application in your environment.

Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed, turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the Azure Marketplace or through the enterprise service catalog of a specific end-customer.

Your customers are demanding the latest innovations in every solution you deliver. How do you make sure that your apps meet — and exceed — your customers’ expectations?

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 23, 2017: Cray supercomputers in the cloud, managed Kubernetes, GDPR resources and tools, and more

I am happy to announce new capabilities in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), which will now allow you to start replicating your Azure IaaS virtual machines within one-click.

Today, we are proud to announce the preview of Azure Container Service (AKS), our new managed Kubernetes service.

We are excited to announce that transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available (GA). This feature allows you to migrate your on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Databases with minimal downtime.

Five highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 16, 2017: Translating AWS to Azure with the Cloud Service Map, Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour ’17, New Azure Government capabilities, New previews on Azure, and weekly Azure shows to catch.