Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability
Reliance on cloud services continues to grow for industries, organizations, and people around the world. So now more than ever it is important that you can trust that the cloud solutions you rely on...
View ArticleEnhancing the customer experience with the Azure Networking MSP partner program
We are always looking for ways to improve the customer experience and allow our partners to complement our offerings. In support of these efforts we are sharing the Azure Networking Managed Service...
View ArticleIntroducing proximity placement groups
Co-locate your Azure resources for improved application performance The performance of your applications is central to the success of your IT organization. Application performance can directly impact...
View ArticleDigital distribution centers—The future is here
The pace of change has never been as fast as it is now. Globally, the population is becoming more urban and income levels are rising. By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the global population will live in...
View ArticleParticipate in the Developer Economics Survey
The Developer Economics Q2 2019 survey is here in its 17th edition to shed light on the future of the software industry. Every year more than 40,000 developers around the world participate in this...
View ArticleResolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with...
With ASP.NET core, my life as a Windows-first developer just broadened dramatically. I can now develop apps without being tied to a single platform. Having spent most of my career as a “Windows only”...
View ArticleNew capabilities in Stream Analytics reduce development time for big data apps
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS offering that enables real-time analytics and complex event processing on fast moving data streams. Thanks to zero-code integration with over 15 Azure...
View ArticleThe next version of Microsoft Edge: Enterprise evaluation and roadmap
This week at the Microsoft Inspire 2019 conference, we are sharing an update on capabilities that we are investing in to make the next version of Microsoft Edge the best browser for enterprises and...
View ArticleAssess the readiness of SQL Server data estates migrating to Azure SQL Database
Migrating hundreds of SQL Server instances and thousands of databases to Azure SQL Database, our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, is a considerable task, and to streamline the process as much as...
View ArticleMicrosoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT...
This post is co-authored by Rangan Majumder, Group Program Manager, Bing and Maxim Lukiyanovm, Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning. Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe...
View ArticleNew transit options to help get you there – Real Time Updates, Trip...
Over the last six months, the Bing Maps team has been hard at work to improve the quality of mass transit routing. Here are our three biggest improvements, which you can try out today on Bing.com and...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 1.2 and Model Builder updates (Machine Learning for .NET)
We are excited to announce ML.NET 1.2 and updates to Model Builder and the CLI. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. ML.NET also includes Model...
View ArticleDragonFruit and System.CommandLine is a new way to think about .NET Console apps
There's some interesting stuff quietly happening in the "Console App" world within open source .NET Core right now. Within the https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api repository are three packages:...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 41
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 109 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications Active...
View ArticleAzure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview
Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation. We have many customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on...
View ArticleConversational AI updates for July 2019
At Build, we highlighted a few customers who are building conversational experiences using the Bot Framework to transform their customer experiences. For example, BMW discussed its work on the BMW...
View ArticleMaking it easier to bring your Linux based web apps to Azure App Service
Application development has radically changed over the years. From having to host all the physical hardware hosting the app and its dependences on-premises, to moving to a model where the hardware is...
View ArticleSilo busting 2.0—Multi-protocol access for Azure Data Lake Storage
Cloud data lakes solve a foundational problem for big data analytics—providing secure, scalable storage for data that traditionally lives in separate data silos. Data lakes were designed from the start...
View ArticleNew ways to train custom language models – effortlessly!
Video Indexer (VI), the AI service for Azure Media Services enables the customization of language models by allowing customers to upload examples of sentences or words belonging to the vocabulary of...
View ArticleDirect Line with speech now available in preview
With over 360,000 registered Azure Bot Service developers, we’ve seen significant growth in bots and virtual assistants built on Azure. A major trend we’re following is the growing need for these...
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