Azure.Source – Volume 25
One of the biggest news items out of last week was the arrival of Virtual Machine Serial Console access in public preview in all global regions. This is something customers have wanted for some time...
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Azure IoT Hub is driving down the cost of IoT
Customers rely on the Azure IoT Hub service and love the scale, performance, security, and reliability it provides for connecting billions of IoT devices sending trillions of messages. Azure IoT Hub is...
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Accelerate Data Warehouse Modernization to Azure with Informatica’s AI-Driven...
Data is central to digital transformation. We have seen many customers moving their data workloads to Azure which benefits from the inherent performance and agility of cloud. Enterprises are moving...
View ArticleIntroducing a new way to purchase Azure monitoring services
Today customers rely on Azure’s application, infrastructure, and network monitoring capabilities to ensure their critical workloads are always up and running. It’s exciting to see the growth of these...
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Mathematical art in R
Who says there's no art in mathematics? I've long admired the generative art that Thomas Lin Peterson occasionally posts (and that you can see on Instagram), and though he's a prolific R user I'm not...
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A flexible new way to purchase Azure SQL Database
We’re excited to announce the preview of an additional purchasing model to the Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool and Single Database deployment options. Recently announced with SQL Database Managed...
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SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates
The preview for long-term backup retention in Azure SQL Database was announced in October 2016, providing you with a way to easily manage long-term retention for your databases – up to 10 years – with...
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Improvements to SQL Elastic Pool configuration experience
We have made some great improvements to the SQL elastic pool configuration experience in the Azure portal. These changes are released alongside the new vCore-based purchasing model for elastic pools...
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Load solutions faster with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
As we have been working to improve the solution load experience in Visual Studio 2017, you may have read our blog about these improvements in version 15.5. With version 15.6, we have introduced...
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Not Hotdog: An R image classification application, using the Custom Vision API
If you're a fan of the HBO show Silicon Valley, you probably remember the episode where Jian Yang creates an application to identify food using a smartphone phone camera: Surprisingly, the app in that...
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Audio Switcher should be built into Windows – Easily Switch Playback...
I've been running a podcast now for over 600 episodes and I do most of my recordings here at home using a Peavey PV6 Mixing Console - it's fantastic. However, I also work remotely and use Skype a lot...
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Application Security Groups now generally available in all Azure regions
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Application Security Groups (ASG) in all Azure regions. This feature provides security micro-segmentation for your virtual networks in Azure....
View ArticleA few podcast recommendations
After avoiding the entire medium for years, I've been rather getting into listening to podcasts lately. As a worker-from-home I don't have a commute (the natural use case of podcasts, I guess), but I...
View ArticleFast and easy development with Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
This blog post was co-authored by James Ashley, MR and AI Architect, Microsoft MVP. Developers sometimes get anxious when it comes to hooking up a database for their apps. However, with Azure Database...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.06
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, in no specific order: TOP STORIES TRAINING: Free “DevOps” Professional Training &...
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Because it’s Friday: Regex Games
I've been wrestling with regular expressions recently, so it was useful to give myself a bit of a refresher with Regex Crossword (with thanks to my colleague Paige for the tip). Little crossword-style...
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How to configure Azure SQL Database Geo-DR 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 ArticleA years’ worth of cloud, AI and partner innovation. Welcome to NAB 2018!
As I reflect on cloud computing and the media industry since last year’s NAB, I see two emerging trends. First, content creators and broadcasters such as Rakuten, RTL, and Al Jazeera are increasingly...
View ArticleFrom Microsoft Azure to everyone attending NAB Show 2018 — Welcome!
NAB Show is one of my favorites. The creativity, technology, content and storytelling are epic, as is the digital transformation well underway. This transformation — driven by new businesses models,...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 26
Last week, Azure expanded its global footprint with new regions available for Australia and New Zealand. In addition, updates were made to reduce your Azure cost, such as flexible new ways to purchase...
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