Microsoft Azure Blog

Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

May 28, 2019

Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of Azure NetApp Files, the industry’s first bare-metal cloud file storage and data management service. Azure NetApp Files is an Azure first-party service for migrating and running the most demanding enterprise file-workloads in the cloud including databases, SAP, and high-performance computing applications with no code changes.

Tad Brockway Corporate Vice President, Azure Storage, Media, and Edge

Azure.Source – Volume 85

Monday, June 3, 2019

HB-series Azure Virtual Machines achieve cloud supercomputing milestone; Azure NetApp Files is now generally available; Azure IoT Hub message enrichment simplifies downstream processing of your data; and much more.

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Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is generally available

Thursday, May 30, 2019

One of the biggest attack surfaces for workloads running in the public cloud is connections to and from the public internet. Our customers find it hard to know which network security group (NSG) rules should be in place to make sure that Azure workloads are only available to required source ranges.

Oren Parag Senior Program Manager, Azure Security Center

Simplify the management of application configurations with Azure App Configuration

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

We’re excited to announce the public preview of Azure App Configuration, a new service aimed at simplifying the management of application configuration and feature flighting for developers and IT.

Ye Gu Principal Program Manager, Azure Developer Experience

Announcing Mobility service for Azure Maps, SDKs updates, and more

Friday, June 7, 2019

Mobility has become the center of an array of new technologies running the gamut from cloud-based algorithms and ride-sharing services, to edge cognition, assisted driving, and traffic pattern analysis – all in an effort to move people and things from one location to another more efficiently.

Outi Nyman Senior Program Manager, Azure Maps

Microsoft hosts HL7 FHIR DevDays

Friday, June 7, 2019

One of the largest gatherings of healthcare IT developers will come together on the Microsoft campus next week for HL7 FHIR DevDays, with the goal of advancing the open standard for interoperable health data, called HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, pronounced “fire�?).

Josh Mandel Chief Architect, Microsoft Healthcare

How to optimize your Azure environment

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Without the right tools and approach, cloud optimization can be a time-consuming and difficult process. There is an ever growing list of best practices to follow, and it’s constantly in flux as your cloud workloads evolve.

Kaitlyn Corazao Program Manager, Azure Advisor

Build more accurate forecasts with new capabilities in automated machine learning

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Build more accurate forecasts with the release of capabilities in automated machine learning. Have scenarios that require have gaps in training data or need to apply contextual data to improve your forecast or need to apply lags to your features? Learn more about the new capabilities that can assist you.

Nilesh Acharya Senior Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning

Using Text Analytics in call centers

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Azure Cognitive Services provides Text Analytics APIs that simplify extracting information from text data using natural language processing and machine learning. These APIs wrap pre-built language processing capabilities, for example, sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, and language detection.

Raymond Laghaeian Principal Program Manager, Azure Cognitive Services

Ask Me Anything – “Network�? with teams from Azure Networking!

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Which 3rd party devices are supported for connecting to Azure VPN Gateway? Can I connect to multiple sites from the same virtual network? Ask these questions and more during the next Ask Me Anything (AMA) session via Twitter, on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Pacific Time.

Tim Meyer Senior Program Manager, Azure Networking

Empowering clinicians with mobile health data: Right information, right place, right time

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs depends on healthcare providers such as doctors, nurses, and specialized clinician ability to access a wide range of data at the point of patient care in the form of health records, lab results, and protocols.

David Houlding Principal Healthcare Program Manager, Industry Experiences

Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Infrastructure security is top of mind for organizations managing workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Keeping on top of an ever-changing security landscape presents a major challenge.

Gilad Elyashar Principal Group PM Manager, Azure Security Center

Security

Announcing self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

For businesses today, data is indispensable. Innovative ideas in manufacturing, health care, transportation, and financial industries are often the result of capturing and correlating data from multiple sources.

Rui Xu Program Manager II, Azure Event Hubs

A look at Azure's automated machine learning capabilities

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The automated machine learning capability in Azure Machine Learning service allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to build machine learning models with high scalability, efficiency, and productivity all while sustaining model quality.

Sujatha Sagiraju Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft updates Cognitive Services terms

Thursday, February 15, 2018

We understand that the commitments we make about data are essential for any organization. To give customers more control, we’ve updated our Cognitive Services terms for customer data.

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Cognitive Services

HB-series Azure Virtual Machines achieve cloud supercomputing milestone

Sunday, May 26, 2019

New HPC-targeted cloud virtual machines are first to scale to 10,000 cores. Azure Virtual Machine HB-series are the first on the public cloud to scale a MPI-based high performance computing (HPC) job to 10,000 cores. This level of scaling has long been considered the realm of only the world’s most powerful and exclusive supercomputers, but now is available to anyone using Azure.

Evan Burness Principal Program Manager, Azure HPC

Virtual Machines

Making AI real for every developer and every organization

Thursday, May 2, 2019

AI is fueling the next wave of transformative innovations that will change the world. With Azure AI, our goal is to empower organizations to apply AI across the spectrum of their business to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations and transform products. To make this a reality, we have three guiding investment principles.

Eric Boyd Corporate Vice President, Azure AI

Announcing new options for SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 End of Support

Thursday, July 12, 2018

It’s incredible how much and how rapidly technology evolves. Microsoft’s server technology is no exception. We entered the 2008 release cycle with a shift from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, the early days of server virtualization and advanced analytics.

Takeshi Numoto Corporate Vice President, Cloud + Enterprise

Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost Management

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.

Oren Maoz Senior Program Manager, Azure Cost Management

Introducing Azure DevOps

Monday, September 10, 2018

Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.

Jamie Cool Director of Program Management, Azure DevOps

Key causes of performance differences between SQL managed instance and SQL Server

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Understand the underlying factors that can cause performance differences between Azure SQL Database managed instance and SQL Server and the steps you can take to make fair comparisons between SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.

Jovan Popovic Program Manager, Azure SQL Database

Database

How to optimize your Azure environment

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Kaitlyn Corazao Program Manager, Azure Advisor

Simplifying event-driven architectures with the latest updates to Event Grid

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Event-driven architectures are increasingly replacing and outpacing less dynamic polling-based systems, bringing the benefits of serverless computing to IoT scenarios, data processing tasks or infrastructure automation jobs.