Archives for 2018

As with all of Azure, we are continuously innovating, upgrading, and refining our virtual network gateways to further increase reliability and availability. Today, we are sharing the public preview of zone-redundant VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. By adding support for Azure Availability Zones, we bring increased resiliency, scalability, and higher availability to virtual […]

Big Data Analytics Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics – Last week, Hortonworks hosted the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, which is billed as the world’s premier big data community event for everything data. This post provides a rollup of Azure HDInsight info and reflects on the progress made […]

Network Performance Monitor’s (NPM) Service Connectivity Monitor, previously in preview as Service Endpoint Monitor, is making general availability sporting a new name. With Service Connectivity Monitor, you can now monitor connectivity to services such as applications, URIs, VMs, and network devices, as well as determine what infrastructure is in the path and where network bottlenecks […]

Earlier this month, we announced Azure Stack expanding availability to 92 countries. Today, we are announcing the capability to backup files and applications data using Microsoft Azure Backup Server. Azure Stack tenants can now take app consistent backup of their data in Azure Stack VMs, store them on the stack for operational recoveries, and send […]

In this blog we’ll discuss the concept of Structured Streaming and how a data ingestion path can be built using Azure Databricks to enable the streaming of data in near-real-time. We’ll touch on some of the analysis capabilities which can be called from directly within Databricks utilising the Text Analytics API and also discuss how […]

Today many healthcare computational workloads still exist at or near the point of care because of high latency, low bandwidth, or challenges with wireless power requirements and limited battery capabilities. Limitations on the numbers of connections per cell are also poised to stunt the future growth of IoT (Internet of Things). 4G LTE has typical […]

With today’s fast moving technology and abundance of data sources, gaining a complete view of your customer is increasingly challenging and critical. This includes campaign interaction, opportunities for marketing optimization, current engagement, and recommendations for next best action. To continuously drive business growth, financial services organizations are especially focused on innovation and speed-to-market in this […]

This week at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), we look forward to joining the conversation on “Why Cloud, Why Now,” for silicon development workflows. Cloud computing is enabling digital transformation across industries. Silicon, or semiconductors, are a foundational building block for the technology industry, and new opportunities are emerging in cloud computing for silicon development. […]

Event driven architecture (EDA) is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption and reaction to events. Today, we are announcing the support for event based triggers in your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines. A lot of data integration scenarios requires data factory customers to trigger pipelines based on events. A typical event […]