August 16, 2017
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.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
As customers increase their deployed applications in Azure, we are seeing a growing interest in DevOps tooling on Azure. We also see customers looking to deploy applications across multiple…
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Azure Security Center just released a new Just-In-Time (JIT) VM Access mechanism. JIT VM Access, now in public preview, significantly reduces your exposure to attacks by enabling you to deny persistent access while providing controlled, audited access to VMs when needed.
Monday, August 14, 2017
I am delighted that Microsoft Azure will be expanding into two new regions in Australia. This increases the number of Azure regions announced across the globe to 42, which is more than any other major cloud provider. Microsoft will become the first major cloud provider to offer regions specifically focused on the needs of the government and their partners in Australia.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Diagnosing network connectivity and performance issues in the cloud can be a challenge as your network evolves in complexity. We are pleased to announce the preview of a new feature to check network connectivity in a variety of scenarios when using VM.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Last month, 14 great new cloud offerings were published to Azure Marketplace. Check ‘em out! – The Azure Marketplace Team
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Today we made some exciting announcements along with Red Hat around container support. We’re adding Windows support in OpenShift, OpenShift Dedicated on Azure and SQL Server support in OpenShift and…
Monday, August 21, 2017
To help you leverage your telemetry data and better monitor the behavior of your Azure applications, we are happy to provide a Jupyter Notebook template that extends the power of Application Insights.…
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Azure Service Bus .NET Standard client is generally available. With it comes support for .NET Core and the .NET framework. And as mentioned in an earlier post it also supports Mono/Xamarin for cross-platform application development. This is only the start of greater things to come.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
The Azure Service Bus team is extremely excited to announce general availability of our Java client library version 1.0.0. It allows customers to enjoy a solid Java experience with Azure Service Bus as it comes complete with native functionality.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
We’re excited to announce the public preview availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in India data centers (Central and West India).
Thursday, August 17, 2017
This combined offering of Imanis Data on Azure HDInsight and deep integration with Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Store enables customers to migrate to cloud faster, protect critical data assets from application or human error.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Azure Analysis Services now supports the shared On-Premises Data Gateway which is used with Power BI, Flow, Logic Apps, and PowerApps. This has been a top ask in our user feedback.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
As customers increase their deployed applications in Azure, we are seeing a growing interest in DevOps tooling on Azure. We also see customers looking to deploy applications across multiple…
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
The Azure Log Analytics service is rolling out an upgrade to existing customers today – offering powerful search, smart analytics, and even deeper insights. This upgrade provides an interactive query language and an advanced analytics portal, powered by a highly scalable data store resembling Azure Application Insights.
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am extremely excited to announce a new Azure service that makes it even easier to deploy containers.
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Ever since we announced that Azure Stack is ready to order, we’ve seen a variety of questions related to managing and operating Azure Stack. This blog kicks off a series of blogs addressing these…
Monday, July 31, 2017
Azure’s Serverless offerings allow developers to build and deploy elastic-scale applications faster than ever. Serverless technology allows developers to focus on their apps rather than provisioning,…
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
The AzureCAT patterns & practices team has published nine new design patterns on the Azure Architecture Center. These nine patterns are particularly useful when designing and implementing…
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
I am excited to announce the new Jenkins plugin that provides support to deploy to Azure app service. Customers can now deploy to Windows and Linux Web App on Azure with ease.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, bringing the agility and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing to on-premises environments. With the introduction of Azure Stack, we’re adding a new Azure job role – Azure Stack Operator.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
This blog contains Data Management Gateway - 'High Availability and Scalability'preview annoucement.
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Azure AD Authentication Extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW Tools
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Today we made some exciting announcements along with Red Hat around container support. We’re adding Windows support in OpenShift, OpenShift Dedicated on Azure and SQL Server support in OpenShift and…
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Diagnosing network connectivity and performance issues in the cloud can be a challenge as your network evolves in complexity. We are pleased to announce the preview of a new feature to check network connectivity in a variety of scenarios when using VM.
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am extremely excited to announce a new Azure service that makes it even easier to deploy containers.
Monday, August 21, 2017
To help you leverage your telemetry data and better monitor the behavior of your Azure applications, we are happy to provide a Jupyter Notebook template that extends the power of Application Insights.…
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
The AzureCAT patterns & practices team has published nine new design patterns on the Azure Architecture Center. These nine patterns are particularly useful when designing and implementing…
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Azure Service Bus .NET Standard client is generally available. With it comes support for .NET Core and the .NET framework. And as mentioned in an earlier post it also supports Mono/Xamarin for cross-platform application development. This is only the start of greater things to come.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Last month, 14 great new cloud offerings were published to Azure Marketplace. Check ‘em out! – The Azure Marketplace Team
Thursday, July 13, 2017
We are excited to announce the general availability of our new Dv3 VM sizes. We are also changing the naming for the high memory D sizes (D11-D14) to become the Ev3 family. These new sizes introduce Hyper-Threading Technology running on the Intel® Broadwell E5-2673 v4 2.3GHz processor, and the Intel® Haswell 2.4 GHz E5-2673 v3.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
The AzureCAT Patterns & Practices team has published a new reference architecture for deploying and running a high availability SharePoint Server 2016 farm in Azure.
