This blog post was authored by the Microsoft Speech Services team. At Microsoft Build 2018, the Microsoft Speech Services team announced the following new and improved products and services. Speech service as a preview, including Speech to Text with custom speech, Text to Speech with custom voice, and Speech Translation. Speech SDK as a preview, […]
Microsoft Azure Stack expands availability to 92 countries
Earlier today, we announced some exciting updates across Azure IaaS, including that we will expand the footprint of Microsoft Azure Stack to a total of 92 countries. On my first week as the new Azure Stack marketing leader, I am incredibly proud of the great work that has been done by the Azure Stack team […]
Regenerative Maps alive on the Edge
How I choose which services to use in Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Barry Luijbregts, Azure MVP. Last year, I attended a Pluralsight webinar hosted by Azure MVP and Pluralsight author, Barry Luijbregts, called Keep your dev team productive with the right Azure service. It was a fantastic webinar and I really enjoyed learning Barry’s thought process on how he selects which […]
3 reasons why Azure’s infrastructure is secure
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 […]
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 […]