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Azure Marketplace – New offers in November 2017
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In November 2017, 35 new offers went live. See details of these great new offers below: VeloCloud Virtual Edge: VeloCloud Cloud Delivered SD-WAN...
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November 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our November top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan maintains the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
View ArticleA VSTS Release Gate with ServiceNow
Tarun has written a great post on creating a VSTS Release Gate that will gate deployments on approvals registered in ServiceNow. This is a great example of how you can use the extensibility of Release...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more
Whether you followed KubeCon in Austin, or SpringOne Platform in San Francisco, there were several announcements of interest last week – especially if containers are of interest to you. See the links...
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Share UI Code in any iOS and Android App with .NET Embedding
One of the most exciting announcements during this year’s Connect(); event was the ability to embed .NET libraries into existing iOS (Objective-C/Swift) and Android (Java) applications with .NET...
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Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill...
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Personal note on joining the Microsoft Cloud Advocates team
A quick personal note: today is my first day as a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft! I'll still be blogging and events related to R, and supporting the R community, but now I'll...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure preview with Azure Availability Zones now open in France
The preview of Microsoft Azure in France is open today to all customers, partners and ISVs worldwide giving them the opportunity to deploy services and test workloads in these latest Azure regions....
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Dec 2017 update – support for more Linux...
Happy holidays! Today we’re shipping the December 2017 update to the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension – our last major update of this year, with out-of-box support for more Linux distros and built-in...
View ArticleMicrosoft expands scope of Singapore MTCS certification
I am pleased to announce the renewal of the Singapore Multi-Tier Could Security (MTCS) Certification Level 3. As part of its commitment to customer satisfaction, Azure has adopted the MTCS standard to...
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Azure Monitor: Send monitoring data to an event hub
With Azure Monitor’s diagnostic settings you can set up your resource-level diagnostic logs and metrics to be streamed to any of three destinations including a storage account, an Event Hubs namespace,...
View ArticleHow cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs
A few years ago, the Microsoft SQL Server product team introduced a new cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Azure SQL Database, which shares the SQL Server code base. Running a cloud-first service...
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Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code
At the recent Connect(); 2017 in November, we announced public preview of Azure IoT Edge. Now you can bring the intelligence of the Cloud right to the IoT Edge as well as easily create and manage...
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Build your ads free search engine with Bing Custom Search API
It’s a little over 6 weeks since we made the Bing Custom Search API generally available. We are excited to see the applications our partners are building and are overwhelmed with the response we are...
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North Bay Python 2017 Recap
Last week I had the privilege to attend the inaugural North Bay Python conference, held in Petaluma, California in the USA. Being part of any community-run conference is always enjoyable, and to help...
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A chart of Bechdel Test scores
A movie is said to satisfy the Bechdel Test if it satisfies the following three criteria: The movie has at least two named female characters ... who have a conversation with each other ... about...
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Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure...
Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Archive Blob Storage starting at an industry leading price of $0.002 per gigabyte per month! Last year, we launched Cool Blob Storage to help...
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General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and...
I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V. This tool helps VMware and Hyper-V enterprise customers to understand their...
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New Azure management and cost savings capabilities
Enterprise customers choose Azure because of the unique value it provides as a productive, hybrid, intelligent and trusted cloud. Today I’m excited to announce four new management and cost savings...
View ArticleAzure ARM API for consumption usage details
As an update to the Reporting APIs for Enterprise customers we are releasing an updated usage details API. This is a first step in the consolidation of Azure cost and usage based APIs in the ARM (Azure...
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