Internet of things

At the IoT Expo in Taipei, we were excited to announce our contribution of an open-source, cross-platform OPC UA Global Discovery Server (GDS) to the OPC Foundation. As we have done with our UA-.

When talking to developers building HTTP APIs the subject of versioning comes up regularly. A quick web search will reveal hundreds of articles promoting guidance on the subject.

Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.

Today we’re announcing the public preview of the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service! The Device Provisioning Service is a new service that works with Azure IoT Hub to enable customers to configure zero-touch device provisioning to their IoT hub.

Today, I am excited to announce that we are making event-based and serverless applications even easier to build on Azure. Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed event routing service and the first of its kind.

Azure Time Series Insights is currently in public preview, and we’ve been hard at work the last couple months to help our customers better manage and find value in their time series data.

Azure IoT Suite is designed to get customers and partners started quickly to connect and manage their devices in a simple and reliable manner, realizing business value from an IoT solution.

As we announced recently, Microsoft thinks there is a natural balance between the cloud and the edge in IoT. Why?

There are many facets to an IoT Solution – device code, cloud solution code, and application code – all working together to realize a business goal. Azure IoT Suite is designed to get you started quickly and realize business value from IoT.

Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations.

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, horizontally partitioned, multi-model database service. The service is designed to allow customers to elastically (and independently) scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cosmos DB.