Category: AI + Machine Learning • 11 min read
What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!
Published • 2 min read
After wrapping up a successful preview with fantastic customer engagement, we are excited to officially announce the general availability of the Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines.
This year’s #AzureTrivia celebrates your love of problem solving, growth, and adventure. Players will be taken on an exciting, mystical journey where you’ll not only pick up new skills, but test your technical prowess in order to unlock new lands and win some sweet, sweet swag.
Analytics, Azure HDInsight, Best practices
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Migrating on-premises Apache Hadoop® and Spark workloads to the cloud remains a key priority for many organizations. In my last post, I shared “Tips and tricks for migrating on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Azure HDInsight.”
Azure Sphere, Events, Internet of Things
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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.
Analytics, Announcements, Azure Synapse Analytics
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Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been enabling Query Store to provide insight on query performance. We’re excited to share the general availability of Query Store worldwide for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Azure IoT Central, Events, Internet of Things
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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.
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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.
Azure Security Center, How to, Hybrid + Multicloud, Security
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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.
Azure Site Recovery, Management and Governance
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Azure is the first public cloud to offer native disaster recovery solution for applications running on IaaS. We want to start this year with a recap of all the new capabilities that we enabled in the last few months that customers have loved.
Azure IoT Hub, Azure Security Center, Internet of Things, Security
Published • 11 min read
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.