Last week in Azure #23: Week of March 12
Catch up on what happened last week in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, and other news & updates.
IT implementors
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Microsoft and 21Vianet reinforce long-term cooperation on cloud services in China
Microsoft and 21Vianet have agreed to extend their partnership to provide world-class public cloud services to Chinese customers.
Announcing backup and restore performance improvements and support for large disk backup
Announcing general availability of large disk support and backup and restore performance improvements.
Heuristic DNS detections in Azure Security Center
We have heard from many customers about their challenges with detecting highly evasive threats. Today, we are discussing some of our more complex, heuristic techniques to detect malicious use of this vital protocol and how these detect key components of common real-world attacks.
Last Week in Azure #22: Week of March 5
Last week, it became even more evident that Azure is the best place for all of your applications and data with numerous announcements about investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of moving your SQL Server and open source applications to Azure.
Microsoft and Azure at the Game Developers Conference
We invite you to come to the South Hall Lower Lobby of the Moscone Center during GDC and stop by our dedicated Azure booth to learn how you can create a gaming empire by building on the gaming cloud that has powered Xbox for years.
New isolated VM sizes now available
Today we are pleased to announce two new Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, E64i_v3 and E64is_v3, which are isolated to hardware and dedicated to a single customer.
Azure’s layered approach to physical security
Azure helps provide a highly secure foundation, built from the ground up, to host your infrastructure, applications, and data.
Get Reserved Instance purchase recommendations based on usage pattern
If you have Virtual Machines(VM) running in azure, you can take advantage of discounted pricing on Reserved Instances (RI) and pre-pay for your Virtual Machines.
Migrate your databases to a fully managed service with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
We’re excited to announce the preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, a new deployment option in SQL Database that streamlines the migration of SQL Server workloads to a fully managed…
Making Azure the best place for all your applications and data
The confluence of cloud, data and AI is driving unprecedented change. The ability to utilize data and turn it into breakthrough actions and experiences, is foundational to innovation today.
Announcing Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys general availability
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys integrated with Azure Key Vault for Azure Blob Storage.