7 month retirement notice: Access Control Service
Access Control Service, otherwise known as ACS, is officially being retired. ACS will remain available for existing customers until November 7, 2018. After this date, ACS will be shut down, causing all...
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Securing Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Selecting a secure cloud services provider is one of the most fundamentally important decisions customers make. Customers must build their applications and services upon a secure trusted foundation....
View ArticleAnnouncing general availability of Azure database services for MySQL and...
Today, I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The GA milestone means that, starting today, these services are bringing the...
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Compliance offerings for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for...
Customers experience an increasing demand for highly secure and compliant solutions as they face data breaches along with requests from governments to access online customer information. New regulatory...
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Project Denali to define flexible SSDs for cloud-scale applications
Last September, at SNIA’s Storage Developer’s Conference, I presented a prototype of the Project Denali SSD. Project Denali drives provide the flexibility needed to optimize for the workloads of a wide...
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Microsoft creates industry standards for datacenter hardware storage and...
Today I’m speaking at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose where we are announcing a next generation specification for solid state device (SSD) storage, Project Denali. We’re...
View ArticleHow to get more leads and close deals faster with Microsoft’s Marketplaces
Cloud software sales are rapidly increasing in both scope and magnitude. As more customers and businesses turn to cloud solutions for their business issues, the market for software solutions has...
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Azure Redis Cache feature updates
We are pleased to announce that firewall and reboot functions are now supported in all three Azure Redis Cache tiers. We have been making these previously premium-only features available to the basic...
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SONiC, the network innovation powerhouse behind Azure
This week is OCP Summit 2018, and I cannot think of a better time to do a status update on our Open Source fabric powering our cloud. Since joining OCP back in 2014, I have always been a huge supporter...
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Deploying WordPress Application using Visual Studio Team Services and Azure –...
This post is the second part of two blog posts describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for deploying a Dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17120 now available
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17120 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17120 contains bug fixes and under...
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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a portable Touchscreen Tablet with...
I was very fortunate to get a preview version of the "RasPad" from SunFounder. Check it out at https://raspad.sunfounder.com/ and at the time of these writing they have a Kickstarter I'm backing! I've...
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R and Docker
If you regularly have to deal with specific versions of R, or different package combinations, or getting R set up to work with other databases or applications then, well, it can be a pain. You could...
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Build your next iOS and Android game with $2,500+ of gaming services
To celebrate PlayFab’s first year at GDC as part of the Microsoft family, we are launching a special offer for developers featuring more than $2,500 worth of PlayFab, App Center, and Azure services...
View ArticleColumnstore support in Standard tier Azure SQL Databases
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Clustered and NonClustered Columnstore indexes for Standard databases in the S3 and above pricing tiers. These features will enable a number of...
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The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the next generation of alerts in Azure. With Azure Monitoring Services, you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire...
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Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 Preview 1
Earlier this month, we released version 7.4 of Visual Studio for Mac, our IDE for developers on macOS who are building mobile, web, and cloud apps. Today, we’re announcing the first preview of Visual...
View ArticleTFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users looking for a lightweight version control experience integrated into Windows File Explorer will be happy to see the latest release of the TFVC Windows Shell...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2
Today we released the second preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We hope that you will use this Preview and share your feedback with us. To use the Preview, you can either...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: March 2018
This is the first edition of a monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software...
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