Archives for 2018

Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly adding features and true to the promise of SaaS applications, you can just start using new features right away to build production-grade applications […]

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Traffic Analytics, a SaaS solution that provides visibility into user and application traffic on your cloud networks. Since the public preview, three months ago, the solution has analyzed several terabytes of Flow logs on a regular basis for network activity across virtual subnets, VNets, […]

Azure Event Hubs makes streaming data effortless because of its simplicity and ability to scale easily. The sheer volume of data that goes through the Event Hubs platform is a testament to how reliable the service is. In fact, by the time you finish reading this sentence, Event Hubs will have ingested over 100 million […]

Azure Availability Zones support for Service Bus Premium provides an industry-leading, financially-backed SLA with fault-isolated locations within an Azure region, providing redundant power, cooling, and networking. This preview begins with Central US, East US 2, and France Central. This feature adds even more resiliency and fault tolerance capabilities to organizations in Finance, Healthcare, Retail, or […]

Today we’re announcing Column-Level Security (CLS) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an additional capability for managing security for sensitive data. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure cloud data warehouse tuned for running complex queries fast and across petabytes of data. As you move data to the cloud, securing your data assets […]

On June 4th 2018, Corey Sanders announced the general availability of Disaster Recovery (DR) for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) in his blog post about why you should bet on Azure for your infrastructure needs today and in the future. Azure is the first public cloud to offer native Disaster Recovery […]

Smart Manufacturing envisions a future where factory equipment can make autonomous decisions based on what’s happening on the factory floor. Businesses can more easily integrate all steps of the manufacturing process including design, manufacturing, supply chain and operation. This facilitates greater flexibility and reactivity when participating in competitive markets. Enabling this vision requires a combination […]

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is the fully-managed data integration service for analytics workloads in Azure. Using ADF users can load the lake from 70+ data sources, on premises and in the cloud, use rich set of transform activities to prep, cleanse, process the data using Azure analytics engines, and finally land the curated data into […]

We are pleased to announce a new feature in the Maven Plugin for Azure App Service. The plugin provides seamless integration of Azure services into Maven projects. With only one step, you can deploy your WAR file to Azure Web Apps on Linux with the built-in running stack of Java 8 and Tomcat 8.5 or […]

Azure Security Center’s dashboard has been redesigned to provide cross-subscription, organizational level reports of the most important metrics that influence the organizational security posture, as well providing actionable insights to help organizations improve their overall security posture. The redesigned dashboard also introduces two new concepts in Security Center: Subscription Coverage: This metric presents the Security […]