The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to help businesses cut costs and create new revenue streams, but it also brings an unsettling amount of risk. No one wants a fridge that gets shut down by ransomware, a toy that spies on children, or a production line that’s brought to a halt through an entry point […]

I am happy to announce that High-Throughput Block Blob (HTBB) is globally enabled in Azure Blob Storage. HTBB provides significantly improved and instantaneous write throughput when ingesting larger block blobs, up to the storage account limits for a single blob. We have also removed the guesswork in naming your objects, enabling you to focus on […]

In IoT Central, our aim is to simplify IoT. We want to make sure your IoT data drives meaningful actions and visualizations. In this post, I will share new features now available in Azure IoT Central including embedded Microsoft Flow, updates to the Azure IoT Central connector, Azure Monitor action groups, multiple dashboards, and localization […]

As companies increasingly look to transform their businesses with AI, we continue to add improvements to Azure AI to make it easy for developers and data scientists to deploy, manage, and secure AI functions directly into their applications with a focus on the following solution areas: Leveraging machine learning to build and train predictive models […]

Today I am pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge and the Azure Data Box Gateway. You can get these products today in the Azure portal. Compute at the edge We’ve heard your need to bring Azure compute power closer to you – a trend increasingly referred to as edge computing. […]

Along with the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge that was announced today, we are announcing the preview of Azure Machine Learning hardware accelerated models on Data Box Edge. The majority of the world’s data in real-world applications is used at the edge. For example, images and videos collected from factories, retail stores, or […]

The blob storage interface on the Data Box has been in preview since September 2018 and we are happy to announce that it’s now generally available. This is in addition to the server message block (SMB) and network file system (NFS) interface already generally available on the Data Box. The blob storage interface allows you […]

It has been inspiring to watch how customers use Azure Stack to innovate and drive digital transformation across cloud boundaries. In her blog post today, Julia White shares examples of how customers are using Azure Stack to innovate on-premises using Azure services. Azure Stack shipped in 2017, and it is the only solution in the […]

Customers who are taking a hybrid cloud approach are seeing real business value – I see this in organizations across the globe. The ability for customers to embrace both public cloud and local datacenter, plus edge capability, is enabling customers to improve their IT agility and maximize efficiency. The benefit of a hybrid approach is […]

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a fully-managed data integration service in Azure that allows you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. In the journey of data integration process, you will need to periodically clean up files from the on-premises or the cloud storage server when the files become out […]