Next week in Last Vegas, we will be meeting with thousands of partners from all over the world at Microsoft Inspire. The event is a forum to reinforce our commitment to making partner business opportunities the centerpiece of our investments. We continue to extend our cloud marketplace, Azure Marketplace and AppSource, capabilities to make it […]
Archives for 2018
Enabling partner success at Microsoft Inspire 2018
Drupalgeddon 2.0: Why is this vulnerability highly critical?
Azure NetApp files now in public preview
Enterprises are rapidly embracing public cloud to take advantage of the scale, agility and economic benefits. However, deploying file-based applications to the cloud has been challenging due to the limited availability of options for highly performant and scalable cloud file services that meet enterprise-grade requirements. Microsoft has teamed up with NetApp to enable enterprises to […]
Announcing public preview of Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall
Networking trends such as SDWAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) can improve performance by using path selection polices at the branch offices to send Internet-bound traffic directly to the cloud eliminating the backhaul to select breakout points. This traffic can quickly reach Microsoft’s global backbone network with intelligent routing to provide the best network experience. However, […]
Welcome our newest family member – Data Box Disk
Last year at Ignite, I talked to you about the preview of Azure Data Box, a ruggedized, portable, and simple way to move large datasets into Azure. So far, the response has been phenomenal. Customers have used Data Box to move petabytes of data into Azure. While our customers and partners love Data Box, they […]
Lightning fast query performance with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure analytics platform for enterprises of all sizes. Today we announced significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) customers enabled through enhancements in the distributed query execution layer. Analytics workload performance is determined by two major factors, I/O bandwidth to storage and […]
Azure sets new performance benchmarks with SQL Data Warehouse
As the amount of data grows exponentially, the pressure to quickly harness it for insights to share across the organization also increases rapidly. As Microsoft continues to evolve our analytics portfolio, we are committed to delivering a data warehouse solution that provides a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform in the cloud. Today we are […]
Azure HDInsight now supports Apache Spark 2.3
Apache Spark 2.3.0 is now available for production use on the managed big data service Azure HDInsight. Ranging from bug fixes (more than 1400 tickets were fixed in this release) to new experimental features, Apache Spark 2.3.0 brings advancements and polish to all areas of its unified data platform. Data engineers relying on Python UDFs […]
Streaming analytics use cases with Spark on Azure
Sensors, IoT devices, social networks, and online transactions are all generating data that needs to be monitored constantly and acted on quickly. As a result, the need for large-scale, real-time stream processing is more evident now than ever before. With Azure Databricks running on top of Spark, Spark Streaming enables data scientists and data engineers […]