The preview of incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available. Incremental snapshots are a cost-effective point-in-time backup of managed disks. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot. They are always stored on the most cost-effective storage […]
Hot patching SQL Server Engine in Azure SQL Database
In the world of cloud database services, few things are more important to customers than having uninterrupted access to their data. In industries like online gaming and financial services that experience high transaction rates, even the smallest interruptions can potentially impact the end-user’s experience. Azure SQL Database is evergreen, meaning that it always has the […]
Navigating the intelligent edge: answers to top questions
Over the past ten years, Microsoft has seen embedded IoT devices get progressively smarter and more connected, running software intelligence near the point where the data is being generated within a network. And having memory and compute capabilities at the intelligent edge solves multiple conundrums related to connectivity, bandwidth, latencies, and privacy/security. Of course, each […]
How to develop your service health alerting strategy
Service issues are anything that could affect your availability, from outages and planned maintenance to service transitions and retirements. While rare—and getting rarer all the time, thanks to innovations in impactless maintenance and disciplines like site reliability engineering—service issues do occur, which is why service health alerting is such a critical part of successfully managing […]
Google Releases Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes in Alpha
Google Cloud Dataproc is an open-source data and analytic processing service based on Hadoop and Spark. Google has now announced the alpha availability of Cloud Dataproc for Kubernetes to provide customers with more efficiency to process data across platforms. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
vCloud Director 10.0 is here!!
For those who were following VMware vCloud Director Evolution lately, it has been developing quite fast and new features have been added continuously at a none matched speed. The development vCloud Director had over the past couple of years just amaze me as has surpassed what was delivered in 6 years development cycle previously. vCloud […]
Three ways to leverage composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB
Composite indexes were introduced in Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2019. With our latest service update, additional query types can now leverage composite indexes. In this post, we’ll explore composite indexes and highlight common use cases. Index types in Azure Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB currently has the following index types that are used […]
Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage
Azure Files premium tier is now zone redundant! We're excited to announce the general availability of zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Files premium tier. Azure Files premium tier with ZRS replication enables highly performant, highly available file services, that are built on solid-state drives (SSD). Azure Files ZRS premium tier should be considered for […]
HDInsight support in Azure CLI now out of preview
We are pleased to share that support for HDInsight in Azure CLI is now generally available. The addition of the az hdinsight command group allows you to easily manage your HDInsight clusters using simple commands while taking advantage of all that Azure CLI has to offer, such as cross-platform support and tab completion. Key Features […]
SAP on Azure Architecture – Designing for security
This blog post was contributed to by Chin Lai The, Technical Specialist, SAP on Azure. This is the first in a four-part blog series on designing a great SAP on Azure Architecture, and will focus on designing for security. Great SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of security, performance and scalability, availability […]