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…
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Do you find yourself scrambling for information when investigating application performance issues? Do you spend hours (sometimes even days) gathering and reporting on usage and incidents of your application to stakeholders? Azure Application Insights lets you learn, iterate, and improve the performance and usability of your apps and services by providing real-time insights based on machine learning and ad-hoc analytics. It helps you to detect, investigate, and mitigate application performance issues before impacting users.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
We released 1.1 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. This release adds support for: Cosmos DB, Azure Container Service, and Registry Active Directory Graph...
Thursday, June 29, 2017
This post is authored by the ISV team. According to Gartner, “By 2020, anything other than a cloud-only strategy for new IT initiatives will require justification at more than 30% of large-enterprise organizations.” With innovation shifting to public datacenters, pressure is on ISVs to develop their own cloud roadmap.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
I am excited to announce the solution template for Jenkins in Azure Marketplace. Customers can now deploy and provision a fully configured Jenkins instance in minutes, and use Azure services anywhere across the globe.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
The Azure Compute team will host a special Ask Me Anything session on /r/Azure, Friday, July 14, 2017 from 9:00 am to Noon PDT. What's the AMA about? We'll have folks from across the Azure Compute…
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) published a blog post yesterday detailing a new ransomware infection that appears to have begun in Ukraine and spread from there to other places in Europe and beyond.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud through the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. This is the predominantly used file share protocol for on-premises Windows use cases.
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
Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) published a blog post yesterday detailing a new ransomware infection that appears to have begun in Ukraine and spread from there to other places in Europe and beyond.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 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.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) published a blog post yesterday detailing a new ransomware infection that appears to have begun in Ukraine and spread from there to other places in Europe and beyond.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Do you find yourself scrambling for information when investigating application performance issues? Do you spend hours (sometimes even days) gathering and reporting on usage and incidents of your application to stakeholders? Azure Application Insights lets you learn, iterate, and improve the performance and usability of your apps and services by providing real-time insights based on machine learning and ad-hoc analytics. It helps you to detect, investigate, and mitigate application performance issues before impacting users.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
We released 1.1 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. This release adds support for: Cosmos DB, Azure Container Service, and Registry Active Directory Graph...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
This article talks about preview of Azure Backup Reports using Power BI content pack.
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.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
I am excited to announce the solution template for Jenkins in Azure Marketplace. Customers can now deploy and provision a fully configured Jenkins instance in minutes, and use Azure services anywhere across the globe.
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…
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-…
