Thought leadership

Delve into the insights of industry pioneers with our Thought Leadership content, where visionary ideas and forward-thinking strategies converge to shape the future of technology.

Thought leadership March 30, 2018 3 min read

Essential tools and services for building mobile apps

See how Azure, Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Visual Studio App Center give you the flexible, yet robust, tools and services to build, test, deploy, and continuously improve Android and iOS apps.
Thought leadership March 29, 2018 3 min read

Secure your backups, not just your data!

Ransomware attacks are no longer restricted to only deletion of data but are starting to look at attacking backups as well.
Thought leadership March 26, 2018 2 min read

Implementation patterns for big data and data warehouse on Azure

To help our customers with their adoption of Azure services for big data and data warehousing workloads we have identified some common adoption patterns which are reference architectures for…
Thought leadership March 22, 2018 2 min read

Unlock your data’s potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Databricks

Getting the most out of your data is critical for any business in a competitive environment.
Thought leadership March 20, 2018 1 min read

Securing Azure Database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB

Selecting a secure cloud services provider is one of the most fundamentally important decisions customers make.
Thought leadership March 20, 2018 4 min read

Project Denali to define flexible SSDs for cloud-scale applications

Last September, at SNIA’s Storage Developer’s Conference, I presented a prototype of the Project Denali SSD.
Thought leadership March 8, 2018 3 min read

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.
Thought leadership February 22, 2018 8 min read

LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding

Conversational systems are rapidly becoming a key component of solutions such as virtual assistants, customer care, and the Internet of Things.
Thought leadership February 12, 2018 2 min read

Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview

Providing a rich GUI for Azure Data Lake Storage (ALDS) resources management has been a top customer for a long time, we are thrilled to announce the public preview for supporting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE).
Thought leadership February 8, 2018 2 min read

Custom Speech: Code-free automated machine learning for speech recognition

Voice is the new interface driving ambient computing.
Thought leadership February 5, 2018 3 min read

Go serverless for your IoT needs

If you are building an IoT solution in the cloud, chances are your focus is on the devices and what you can accomplish with them.
Thought leadership January 22, 2018 3 min read

CustomVision.AI: Code-free automated machine learning for image classification

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business.

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