June 21, 2017
Today we are kicking of a new series on Microsoft Mechanics called "How we built it" to share the real-world architectural back stories and best practices as told by the technology architects in our customer organizations.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
The third and final part of the article series “Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage” has been published on the Analysis Services team blog. It shows that an Azure…
Monday, June 19, 2017
In this blog post, I will talk about how to use Update Management solution to manage updates for your Azure VMs. Right from within your Azure VM, you can quickly assess the status of available updates, initiate the process of installing required updates, and review deployment results to verify that updates were applied successfully to the VM.
Monday, June 19, 2017
With the Application Insights JavaScript SDK you can collect and investigate the performance and usage of your web page or app. Historically we have offered onboarding through manually adding a…
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports IDENTITY column properties.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Azure Event Hubs Capture is now generally available. This key Event Hubs feature (which was released in public preview as Event Hubs Archive), gives you access to near real-time streams, making it possible to package and transport millions of events per second for further processing. It is designed to combine both batch and near-real-time streams, so you don’t need to construct separate data pipelines.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
You can now analyze the sentiment of your text in 12 new languages, which are in addition to our previously released support for English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese text.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
In April we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern data-…
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Azure Site Recovery now supports disaster recovery and migration to Azure for servers running Ubuntu on Azure virtual machines or in a VMware virtualized environment.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
This article talks about preview of Azure Backup Reports using Power BI content pack.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
We are pleased to announce a public preview of the geo-replication functionality in the Azure Redis service. Geo-replication gives you the ability to link Redis caches across different Azure regions…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is really connected, I have chosen the advanced installation method. We will start with some Linux related adjustments and the Docker engine deployment.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it."
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need,…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve your Azure VPN experience, we are introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Today, at the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, I am honored to join Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation on stage to announce that we have joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold Member.
Friday, June 16, 2017
As customers bet more and more on Cloud to drive digital transformation within their organizations, we’re seeing tremendous usage of Azure. Recently, Forbes reported a study done by Cowen and Company…
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Azure increases the maximum size and performance of Azure Disks. We are excited to announce the maximum disk sizes for both Premium and Standard storage. This extends the maximum size of the disks per…
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Azure Application Insights is an application performance management (APM) platform which provides performance and diagnostic information about your running services and applications to help you…
Monday, June 12, 2017
Whether it is to drive agility, develop new skills, or engage and scale through community, open source is at the core of how developers deliver value in a cloud world. I can clearly see this…
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Monday, May 15, 2017
We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions. As part of…
Monday, April 3, 2017
For Microsoft Azure, we have a long standing promise of making our prices comparable with AWS on commodity services such as compute, storage, and bandwidth. In keeping with this commitment, we are…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need,…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
"Secure transfer required " feature is now supported in Azure Storage account.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it."
Monday, April 3, 2017
For Microsoft Azure, we have a long standing promise of making our prices comparable with AWS on commodity services such as compute, storage, and bandwidth. In keeping with this commitment, we are…
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve your Azure VPN experience, we are introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is really connected, I have chosen the advanced installation method. We will start with some Linux related adjustments and the Docker engine deployment.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Monday, May 15, 2017
We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions. As part of…
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
We’re happy to announce that cloud encryption company Tresorit launched their ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK in Azure marketplace today! With ZeroKit, developers can easily build E2EE “zero knowledge” apps that protect data and user passwords from the most frequent data breaches.
