IT implementors

This year’s #AzureTrivia celebrates your love of problem solving, growth, and adventure.

This week, at The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Microsoft and The Things Network Foundation collaborate with 2,000 LoRaWAN developers, innovators, and integrators on connecting devices to Azure IoT Central using the open source project Azure IoT Central Device Bridge.

The healthcare industry is poised for massive transformation. With an aging population, chronic diseases, and increased regulations, healthcare costs continue to balloon—along with patient and provider expectations for better outcomes.

Last year, we shared a great developer experience through Ansible in Azure Cloud Shell and Ansible extension in Visual Studio Code. Today we’re excited to be expanding our support of Ansible on Azure with the launch of a fully configured version in Azure Marketplace.

Recently a new flaw was discovered in PolKit, a component which controls system-wide privileges in Unix-like OS. This vulnerability potentially allows unprivileged accounts to have root permission.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From December 16 to December 31, 2018, 46 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

Microsoft acquires Citus Data to accelerate PostgreSQL perf and scale; IoT Hub device streams now in public preview; Azure API Management support for OpenAPI Specification v3 in preview; and so much more.

As part of our ongoing commitment to open and interoperable artificial intelligence, Microsoft has joined the SciKit-Learn consortium as a Platinum member and released tools to enable increased usage of SciKit-Learn pipelines.

We are excited to announce public preview availability of Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

From smart factories and smart cities to virtual personal assistants and self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are transforming how people around the world live, work, and play.

Azure Security Center now helps streamline this process of meeting compliance standards with the new regulatory compliance dashboard, recently released to public preview.

Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers unparalleled performance and scalability by intelligently distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, which makes sharding simple.