This blog post continues the Azure SQL Database architecture series where we share background on how we run the service, as described by the architects who originally created the service. The first two posts covered data integrity in Azure SQL Database and how cloud speed helps SQL Server database administrators. In this blog post, we […]

Microsoft creates deep, technical content to help developers enhance their proficiency when building solutions using the Azure AI Platform. Our preferred training partners redeliver our LearnAI Bootcamps for customers around the globe on topics including Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning service, Azure Search, and Cognitive Services. Umanis, a systems integrator and preferred AI training partner […]

Active Directory Assessment: 4-Week Assessm. (GB): This assessment by Dots. will review your Active Directory environment, architecture, DNS configuration, backup policy, and administrative procedures to provide audit findings and best-practice recommendations. AD Connect: 1 Day Implementation: CDW will assist your organization in creating storage accounts in Microsoft Azure for use with an on-premises, cloud-enabled storage […]

After you experience a Microsoft Azure service issue, you likely need to explain what happened to your customers, management, and other stakeholders. That’s why Azure Service Health provides official incident reports and root cause analyses (RCAs) from Microsoft. Azure Service Health helps you stay informed and take action when Azure service issues like incidents and […]

We’re proud to be showcasing at Hannover Messe once again next week. Manufacturing continues to be one of the leading industries adopting IoT for a growing set of scenarios to improve safety, efficiency, and reliability for people and devices. Every year, I get to meet with partners and customers and learn about how their needs […]

Data sets have unique lifecycles. Some data is accessed often early in the lifecycle, but the need for access drops drastically as the data ages. Some data remains idle in the cloud and is rarely accessed once stored. Some data expires days or months after creation while other data sets are actively read and modified […]

March 20, 2019 marked the first anniversary of general availability for our managed Open Source relational database management system (RDBMS) services, including Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL. A great year of learning and improvements lays behind us, and we are looking forward to an exciting future! Thank you to all our […]

Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) collects network connection data that you can use to analyze the dependencies and network traffic of your VMs. You can analyze the number of live and failed connections, bytes sent and received, and the connection dependencies of your VMs down to the process level. If malicious connections are detected […]

Pay for what you use In the virtualization days I used to pad all my requests for virtual machines (VM) to get the largest size possible. Since decisions and requests took time, I would ask for more than I required just so I wouldn’t have delays if I needed more capacity. This resulted in a […]