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May 11, 2015

2 min read

Microsoft Invests in Subsea Cables to Connect Datacenters Globally

Over the past 9 months, Microsoft has been significantly investing in subsea and terrestrial dark fiber capacity by engaging in fiber partnerships that span multiple oceans and continents.
May 5, 2015

5 min read

New Networking Capabilities for a Consistent, Connected and Hybrid Cloud

This week at Ignite, we announced several new Azure networking services and features that makes Azure more powerful than ever before.
April 29, 2015

6 min read

IaaS just got easier. Again

Announcing public preview for template-based deployments of Compute, Networking and Storage, using the Azure Resource Manager to transform building, deploying and managing large-scale complex applications into simple actions.
April 29, 2015

2 min read

Introducing App Service Environment

Today we’re pleased to introduce the public preview of an additional exclusive Premium service plan option: App Service Environment.
April 29, 2015

2 min read

Introducing Azure Data Lake

Today at Build, we announced the Azure Data Lake, Microsoft’s hyperscale repository for big data analytic workloads in the cloud.
April 28, 2015

5 min read

Azure Preview Portal Improvements (April update)

Today we are proud to announce a new set of improvements to the Azure Preview Portal.
Events

April 21, 2015

1 min read

Build your Application Development agenda at Ignite!

New development technologies, new connected devices, and new cloud-oriented business models create extraordinary opportunities for application developers to drive greater innovation.
April 20, 2015

3 min read

Announcing Azure Service Fabric: Reducing Complexity in a Hyper-scale World

Today we are excited to announce an additional offering – Azure Service Fabric – that provides a high control platform enables developers and ISVs to build cloud services with a high degree of scalability and customization.
April 16, 2015

9 min read

Azure Premium Storage, now generally available

Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of Microsoft Azure Premium Storage!
April 16, 2015

1 min read

Docker Client for Windows is Now Available

As a part of our partnership, Microsoft has worked with the Docker community to port the Docker client to Windows, making it easy to manage Docker hosts and containers for those using Windows as their development machines.
Best practices

April 7, 2015

5 min read

Service Healing – Auto-recovery of Virtual Machines

In this blog post we will take a look at the mechanism of service healing/auto-recovery in Azure when a failure does occur.
April 2, 2015

1 min read

Azure Resource Explorer: a new tool to discover the Azure API

We’re excited to announce the Preview of a new site called Azure Resource Explorer and encourage you to head over and try it out today!

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