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Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS). ZRS greatly simplifies development of highly available applications by storing three replicas of your data in...
View ArticleLaunching the Azure Storage Solution showcase
I am pleased to announce a new webcast series showcasing innovative technology partners who have built solutions on top of the Azure Storage infrastructure. Microsoft has always been committed to our...
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Comprehensive monitoring for Azure Site Recovery now generally available
Azure Site Recovery is a vital part of the business continuity strategy of many Azure customers. Customers rely on Azure Site Recovery to protect their mission critical IT systems, maintain compliance,...
View ArticleStart replicating in under 30 minutes using Azure Site Recovery’s new...
We on the Azure Site Recovery product team are consistently striving to simplify the business continuity and disaster recovery to Azure solutions for our customers. With the latest release of the Azure...
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Scraping a website with 5 lines of R code
In what is rapidly becoming a series — cool things you can do with R in a tweet — Julia Silge demonstrates scraping the list of members of the US house of representatives on Wikipedia in just 5 R...
View ArticleAccelerated Spark on GPU-enabled clusters in Azure
The ability to run Spark on a GPU enabled cluster demonstrates a unique convergence of big data and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies. In the past several years, we've seen the GPU market...
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Cognitive Services and Availability of SDKs for the latest Bing Search APIs
We are pleased to announce preview availability of SDKs for the Cognitive Serivces - Bing Search APIs. Currently available as REST APIs, the Bing APIs v7 now have SDKs in four languages: C#, Java,...
View ArticleAzure Standard support now offers the highest value support for production...
Our Azure customers have three common needs from their cloud support plan: A fixed monthly cost that is affordable and simple to forecastFast response time for critical casesA plan that covers their...
View ArticleCompliance assessment reports for Azure Stack are now available
A few months ago, we announced we were performing a compliance assessment on Microsoft Azure Stack, today we are happy to share that the compliance assessment is done and available to you. Knowing that...
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Speed up simulations in R with doAzureParallel
I'm a big fan using R to simulate data. When I'm trying to understand a data set, my first step is sometimes to simulate data from a model and compare the results to the data, before I go down the path...
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Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes
Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates...
View Articlevswhere now supports -requiresAny to find instances with one or more...
The latest release of vswhere.exe supports a new switch parameter, -requiresAny (case-insensitive). This switch changes the behavior of -requires to return any instances that have one or more workloads...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.01.26
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – LottieUWP – Native Adobe After Effects animations in UWP apps
Lottie is a client library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders them natively on the client. Alexandre maintains the UWP port of the library (LottieUWP), and stopped...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Excel Painter
Excel often gets criticism when it gets used for applications it's not really designed for. In this instance it's being used in completely the wrong way, and the results are beautiful (via...
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You got this! You know the fundamentals. You are a learner. Plus The...
Sometimes we all get overwhelmed. There's a million (no irony there) reasons to be overwhelmed today, to be sure. I got an email from a community member who was feeling like they hadn't kept up on the...
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Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video
Last year I found a company called SunFounder that makes great Raspberry Pi-related kits and stuff. I got their Raspberry Pi 10" Touchscreen LCD and enjoyed it very much. This month I picked up the...
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Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplification
Azure ExpressRoute allows enterprise customers to privately and directly connect to Microsoft’s cloud services, providing a more predictable networking experience than traditional internet connections....
View ArticleUsing EXPLAIN to profile slow queries in Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that Microsoft offers on Azure. Using Azure managed services for MySQL (and PostgreSQL), enables one to easily build an intelligent...
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Using the MySQL sys schema to optimize and maintain a database
The MySQL sys schema, which is fully enabled in Azure Database for MySQL 5.7, provides a powerful collection of user friendly views in a read-only database. Building on the MySQL Performance and...
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