IT implementors

News and updates from Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure portal updates, and Azure Cosmos DB.

Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. SQL Database serverless automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for compute used per second.

Unlocking new possibilities with Window Server containers and Azure Kubernetes Service.

This post is part of a 2-part series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them. In this post, we’ll examine additional implementation details and the outcomes resulting from the team’s efforts.

Conversational experiences have become the norm, whether you’re looking to track a package or to find out a store’s hours of operation.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 22 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

This post is part of a 2-part series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.

In Craig Kerstiens‘s latest blog post, “A health check playbook for your Postgres database” he emphasizes the need for periodic checks for your Postgres databases to ensure it’s healthy and performing well.

Network security solutions can be delivered as appliances on premises, as Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) that run in the cloud or as a cloud native offering (known as firewall-as-a-service).

Customers across industries including healthcare, legal, media, and manufacturing are looking for new solutions to solve business challenges with AI, including knowledge mining with Azure Search.

Today, we are excited to share that Azure Premium Files preview is now available to everyone! Premium files is a new performance tier that unlocks the next level of performance for fully managed file services in the cloud, while also empowering developers and IT pros.

At Microsoft Build 2019 we announced exciting new capabilities, including the introduction of real-time operational analytics using new native support for Apache Spark and a new Jupyter notebook experience for all Azure Cosmos DB APIs.