Implementation patterns for big data and data warehouse on Azure
To help our customers with their adoption of Azure services for big data and data warehousing workloads we have identified some common adoption patterns which are reference architectures for success....
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts...
Today I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Service Health, a personalized dashboard that provides guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you. Unlike our...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 24
Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL, the next generation of Azure Alerts, and Azure Databricks are now generally available. Last week, we were at GDC 2018 in San Francisco with...
View ArticleLearn from experts and play with emerging tech at Microsoft Build
Microsoft’s largest developer conference, Microsoft Build, is around the corner, and there’s still time to register. Programmers and Microsoft engineers will gather May 7–9 in Seattle, Washington, to...
View Article#GlobalAzure Bootcamp 2018
This blog post was authored by Magnus Mårtensson, Regional Director and Azure MVP, Loftysoft. The Global Azure Bootcamp (#GlobalAzure) is a worldwide series of one-day technical learning events for...
View ArticleAdding support for Debug Adapters to Visual Studio IDE
Since its release, Visual Studio Code’s extension model, based on well-known web technologies such as TypeScript and JSON, has attracted a great deal of participation from the community, with hundreds...
View ArticleBing Launches More Intelligent Search Features
In December, we announced new intelligent search features which tap into advances in AI to provide people with more comprehensive answers, faster. Today, we’re excited to announce improvements to our...
View ArticleAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Files share snapshot
It has been an exciting last few months since we announced the public preview of Azure Files share snapshot as we see our customers experiencing out-of-the-box snapshot capabilities for their Azure...
View ArticleThe new Azure Load Balancer – 10x scale increase
Azure Load Balancer is a network load balancer offering high scalability, throughput and low latency across TCP and UDP load balancing. Today, we are excited to announce the new Standard SKU of the...
View ArticleAzure Monitor–General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
In September of last year we announced the public preview of multi-dimensional metrics in Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s built-in platform monitoring service for Azure. Today we are pleased to announce the...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse now generally available in all Azure regions worldwide
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in three additional regions— Japan West, Australia East, and India West. These additional locations bring the product...
View ArticlePreview: SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption with Azure Key Vault...
Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse offer encryption-at-rest by providing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for all data written to disk, including databases, log files and backups. This protects...
View ArticleSoft delete for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview
Today we are excited to announce the public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is available in all regions, both public and private. When turned on, soft delete enables you to...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.8
TypeScript 2.8 is here and brings a few features that we think you’ll love unconditionally! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript. Those...
View ArticleGet a look at the Bing Maps Fleet Management APIs on April 3
Get a first-hand look at the latest full set of Bing Maps APIs and Services for your fleet, asset, and logistics applications. Bing Maps partner, Grey Matter, is hosting a webinar on April 3 at 3:00...
View ArticleConfiguring C++ IntelliSense and Browsing
Whether you are creating a new (or modifying an existing) C++ project using a Wizard, or importing an project into Visual Studio from another IDE, it’s important to configure the project correctly for...
View ArticleCommand line “tab” completion for .NET Core CLI in PowerShell or...
Lots of people are using open source .NET Core and the "dotnet" command line, but few know that the .NET CLI supports command "tab" completion! You can ensure you have it on .NET Core 2.0 with this...
View ArticleGenerate image captions with the Computer Vision API
The Azure Computer Vision API can extract all sorts of interesting information from images — tags describing objects found in the images, locations of detected faces, and more — but today I want to...
View ArticleHow Catania secures public data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Digital transformation is a key theme for public sector today. Government organizations big and small, want to leverage cloud technologies to deliver improved citizen services while keeping costs under...
View ArticleUsing artificial intelligence to analyze roads
Imagine you’re driving down the road. As long as the road is straight, you can see everything in front of you. But what happens when the road curves? Your brain makes assumptions based on past...
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