This is the third blog in a 4-part blog post series on how Microsoft Azure provides a secure foundation. Customers tell me that securing their datacenter infrastructure requires an enormous amount of resources and investments. With the challenges of recruiting security experts to maintain secure infrastructure, there is not a clear return on investment. To […]
Archives for 2018
Azure Security Center can identify attacks targeting Azure App Service applications
One of Azure’s most popular service is App Service which enables customers to build and host web applications in the programming language of their choice without managing infrastructure. App Service offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports both Windows and Linux. It also supports automated deployments from GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services or any Git repository. […]
VNet service endpoints for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL in preview
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We recently made Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. These services offer the community versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL with built-in high availability, a 99.99% availability SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry leading security and compliance on Azure. […]
Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs generally available
Today we are excited to announce general availability of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is available in all regions, both public and private. When turned on, soft delete enables you to save and recover your data where blobs or blob snapshots are deleted. This protection extends to blob data that is erased […]
Gain application insights for Big Data solutions using Unravel data on Azure HDInsight
Unravel on HDInsight enables developers and IT Admins to manage performance, auto scaling & cost optimization better than ever. We are pleased to announce Unravel on Azure HDInsight Application Platform. Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed open-source big data analytics service for enterprises. You can use popular open-source frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, LLAP, Kafka, HBase, etc.) to […]
Azure.Source – Volume 33
Microsoft continues to be a leader in Gartner's Cloud IaaS MQ – For the fifth consecutive year, Microsoft is recognized as a leader in Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrent. Check out this post for the details and a link to not only this report, but a long list of other Gartner MQs that place Microsoft in […]
Explore Build 2018 content with playlists
If you couldn’t attend Microsoft Build 2018, now is your opportunity to do so online with Microsoft Build Live 2018. Learn about the cloud, AI, IoT, and much more. But as you browse the hundreds of recordings available, you may find it overwhelming to find the things that are the most relevant to what you […]
Accelerate your SAP on Azure HANA project with SUSE Microsoft Solution Templates
This blog post has been co-authored by Sebastian Max Dusch Following the launch of M-SERIES/SAP HANA certified Virtual Machines (VMs) on Azure, we are happy to announce a new marketplace offering in partnership with SUSE. The offering leverages Azure Resource Manager Templates to automate the rapid provisioning of an SAP HANA infrastructure in Azure with […]
Devs imagine, create, and code the future at Microsoft Build
On Monday, May 7, more than 6,000 developers from more than 70 countries descended on the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, for Microsoft Build. From experienced coders to eight-year-old prodigies, the attendees were united by a passion for building apps for the intelligent cloud. To catch up on sessions you missed, check out […]
New container images in Azure Marketplace
Azure has a thriving ecosystem where partners can publish many different offer types including virtual machine images, SaaS, solution templates, and managed applications, allowing customers to solve their unique problems in the way which best fits their scenario. At Build, we announced a new category of offer in Azure Marketplace – container images Azure customers […]