IT decision makers

We are very excited to announce a brand new Azure driver for Docker Machine using the new Azure Resource Manager APIs.

This post is for the cast and crew of developers that make any IoT solution work for its intended audience. It’s a guide not just to the “Things,” but to their secure connection to the “Internet” that powers every IoT solution.

A recent article and code sample I produced with Dinar Gainitdinov shows how to build a simple application to run some complex joins and queries then push the updated records to an Azure Event Hub.

How do devs spend more time on what makes their app different and unique, and less time on plumbing and infrastructure?

Today we announce the Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage open source on GitHub, allowing you to store persistent data in containers and migrate them between hosts easily with the Linux SMB capabilities of Azure File Storage.

Given the high level of security government agencies require, would data in the cloud be as secure as in well-established on-premises systems?

I had the pleasure of addressing the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit to speak about the advantages of an open approach to cloud computing and share Microsoft’s latest innovation with the community.

We released a new Application Insights Labs SDK specifically for monitoring WCF applications. Although Application Insights SDK for .NET Web Applications already supports HTTP-based WCF applications, it has never been optimized for WCF specifics.

One of the features in the recently released Update 2 of StorSimple was the integration of StorSimple with Azure Site Recovery.

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group has provided guidance on implementing Elasticsearch and illustrates many of the challenges our customers face and how to work through them.

We made some exciting enhancements to Azure Security Center, including more partners, detections, and security management capabilities.

One of the great benefits of Azure VMs is the ability to change the size of your VM based on the needs for CPU, Network or disk performance.