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Azure.Source - Volume 63

Friday, December 21, 2018

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer managed keys for Managed Instance in preview, Virtual Network Service Endpoints for serverless messaging and big data GA, Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day, and much more.

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure

Microsoft previews neural network text-to-speech

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Applying the latest in deep learning innovation, Speech Service, part of Azure Cognitive Services now offers a neural network-powered text-to-speech capability. Access the preview available today.

Technical Fellow, Cloud and AI

Azure Monitor for containers now generally available

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

We are happy to announce that Azure Monitor for containers is now generally available. Azure Monitor for containers monitors the health and performance of Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Senior Program Manager, Azure Monitoring & Diagnostics

Azure.Source - Volume 63

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer managed keys for Managed Instance in preview, Virtual Network Service Endpoints for serverless messaging and big data GA, Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day, and much more.

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure

The year in review: Hybrid applications for developers

Thursday, December 20, 2018

As 2018 comes to an end, I look at the technology landscape. I look at the kinds of hybrid scenarios our customers are developing. For example, we see Airbus transforming aerospace with Microsoft Azure Stack and I realize that this year has been amazing for developers that design, develop, and maintain cloud-based apps.

Principal Program Manager, Azure Stack

IoT in Action: New insights for retail

Thursday, December 20, 2018

The pace of development for retail Internet of Things (IoT) solutions continues to build. From enhanced customer insights to better staff utilization and increased supply chain efficiency, sophisticated IoT solutions are helping retailers improve, and even reimagine, the retail experience.

Director, Channel Marketing

Anatomy of a secured MCU

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution containing three complementary components that provide a secured IoT platform. They include an Azure Sphere microcontroller unit (MCU), an operating system optimized for IoT scenarios that is managed by Microsoft, and a suite of secured, scalable online services.

Partner Director of Engineering, Azure Sphere

Transforming your data in Azure SQL Database to columnstore format

Thursday, December 20, 2018

We are excited to reveal a public preview of a new feature in Azure SQL Database, both in logical server and Managed Instance, called CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE ONLINE INDEX build. This operation enables you to migrate your data stored in row-store format to the columnstore format and maintain your columnstore data structures with the minimal downtime on your workload.

Program Manager, Azure SQL Database

Best practices for queries used in log alert rules

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Queries can start with either a table name like search or union operators. These commands are useful during data exploration and for searching terms over the entire data model. However, these operators are not efficient for productization in alerts.

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Azure

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