Real World Cloud Migrations: CDNs are an easy improvement to legacy apps
I'm doing a quiet backend migration/update to my family of sites. If I do it right, there will be minimal disruption. Even though I'm a one person show (plus Mandy my podcast editor) the Cloud lets me...
View ArticleAzure Data Box Heavy is now generally available
Our customers continue to use the Azure Data Box family to move massive amounts of data into Azure. One of the regular requests that we receive is for a larger capacity option that retains the...
View ArticleThanks for 10 years and welcome to a new chapter in SQL innovation
Tomorrow, July 9, 2019, marks the end of extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. These releases transformed the database industry, with all the core components of a database platform built-in...
View ArticleScale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts
In Azure Monitor, defining what to monitor while configuring alerts can be challenging. Customers need to be capable of defining when actions and notifications should trigger for their alerts, and more...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers–Volume 40
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 212 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications 2Care:...
View ArticleLarger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files now in preview
Better scale and more power for IT pros and developers. Azure Files has always delivered secure, fully managed cloud file shares with a full range of data redundancy options. While customers love the...
View ArticleEnable receipt understanding with Form Recognizer’s new capability
One of the newest members of the Azure AI portfolio, Form Recognizer, applies advanced machine learning to accurately extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents. With just a few samples,...
View ArticleUse Desktop Analytics and machine learning to get current and stay current
Desktop Analytics—available now in public preview—provides the insight and automation you need to efficiently get current and stay current. The post Use Desktop Analytics and machine learning to get...
View ArticleCGG speeds geoscience insights on Azure HPC
A leader in geosciences, CGG has been imaging the earth’s subsurface for more than 85 years. Their products and solutions help clients locate natural resources. When a customer asked whether the cloud...
View ArticlePreviewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards
Today we’re happy to share a new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, and .NET. These...
View ArticlePrinting in the cloud—Lexmark digitizes its future with a modern workplace...
As Lexmark expands their existing IoT expertise and drives the printer industry into the digital age, they're innovating and using the Microsoft cloud platform to solve customers’ problems in amazing...
View ArticleJune Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team...
For the July security release, we are releasing fixes for vulnerabilities that impact Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018, TFS 2017, TFS 2015, TFS 2013, TFS 2012, and TFS 2010. Thanks to everyone who...
View ArticleJuly Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team...
For the July security release, we are releasing fixes for vulnerabilities that impact Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018, TFS 2017, TFS 2015, TFS 2013, TFS 2012, and TFS 2010. Thanks to everyone who...
View Article.NET Framework July 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the July 2019 Cumulative Update, Security and Quality Rollup, and Security Only Update for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2019-1006 – WCF/WIF SAML Token Authentication Bypass...
View Article.NET Core July 2019 Updates – 2.1.12 and 2.2.6
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual...
View ArticleMigrate to Azure HDInsight in as little as 12 weeks
Recent announcements in the open source ecosystem have led customers of prominent open source analytics technology companies to explore options with Microsoft Azure and to this end, we now have new and...
View ArticleR 3.6.1 is now available
On July 5, the R Core Group released the source code for the latest update to R, R 3.6.1, and binaries are now available to download for Windows, Linux and Mac from your local CRAN mirror. R 3.6.1 is a...
View ArticleDealing with Application Base URLs and Razor link generation while hosting...
I'm quietly moving my Website from a physical machine to a number of Cloud Services hosted in Azure. This is an attempt to not just modernize the system - no reason to change things just to change them...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Azure Firewall
This post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Today we are happy to share several key Azure Firewall capabilities as well as update on recent important...
View ArticleReducing overall storage costs with Azure Premium Blob Storage
In this blog post, we will take a closer look at pricing for Azure Premium Blob Storage, and its potential to reduce overall storage costs for some applications. Premium Blob Storage is Azure Blob...
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