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Availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure

The Azure Big Compute team is happy to announce version 1.0.0 of the Batch Shipyard toolkit, which enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools.

Today, Microsoft Azure is generally available from the new Microsoft Cloud Germany, a first-of-its-kind model in Europe developed in response to customer needs.

Create a dev/test environment that simulates an enterprise organization using Office 365 and directory synchronization.

Of the many key scenarios for Event Hubs, are long term data archival and downstream micro-batch processing. Customers typically use compute (Event Processor Host/Event Receivers) or Stream Analytics jobs to perform these archival or batch processing tasks.

Government clouds are not all the same so we’re starting a dialogue on our strategy for building the Microsoft Government Cloud, exploring several areas we believe are highly valuable differentiators.

The public availability of the Service Fabric for Linux preview on Monday, Sept. 26, coincident with the Ignite conference.

Technology has enabled some pretty amazing things, but being in two places at once still isn’t one of them.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob Storage. You can enable this feature on any Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API.

Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

New update to SQL Database Advisor greatly reduces the time required (from a week to a day) to produce and implement index tuning recommendations, making the performance tuning process much faster.

We are happy to announce that JSON support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.