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We are excited to announce the general availability of our new Dv3 VM sizes. We are also changing the naming for the high memory D sizes (D11-D14) to become the Ev3 family.

Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications with the ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication.

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports the disaster recovery and migration of on-premises virtual machines with disk sizes of upto 4 TB to Azure.

Today we are announcing a set of networking enhancements for Azure virtual machine scale sets, adding new ways to assign IP addresses, configure DNS, and assign network security.

Today we are making an exciting announcement. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is increasing its compute scale threefold, raising the compute scale from 6,000 to 18,000 Data Warehouse Units (DWU) so that customers can run their most compute intensive data warehouse workloads in the cloud.

I am pleased to announce that Azure Government is commercially live in two additional datacenter regions in Arizona and Texas for U.S. government customers and their partners following my announcement late last year.

Throughout the Technical Previews, we’ve seen tremendous customer and partner excitement around Microsoft Azure Stack.

Microsoft Azure is pleased to announce a series of network performance optimizations supporting the latest distributions of Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, and CentOS) and Windows for all Virtual Machines (…

Azure Security Center automatically collects, analyzes, and integrates log data from a variety of Azure resources.

In this blog post, I will talk about how to use the Change Tracking solution to detect in-guest changes on your Azure VMs. Right from within your Azure VM you can quickly assess details of changes that occurred across your system.

This blog is intended to provide insights on some of the data encoding issues that you may encounter while using Polybase to load data to SQL Data Warehouse.

The AzureCAT patterns & practices team has published nine new design patterns on the Azure Architecture Center.