This blog was co-authored by Lei Zhang, Principal Research Manager, Computer Vision You can now extract more insights and unlock new workflows from your images with the latest enhancements to Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision service. 1. Enrich insights with expanded tagging vocabulary Computer Vision has more than doubled the types of objects, situations, and actions […]

This blog post is co-authored by Emmanuel Bertrand, Senior Program Manager, Azure IoT. We recently announced Azure Cognitive Services in containers for Computer Vision, Face, Text Analytics, and Language Understanding. You can read more about Azure Cognitive Services containers in this blog, “Brining AI to the edge.” Today, we are happy to announce the support […]

A new way to integrate with resources in your virtual network We strive with every service to provide experiences that significantly improve the development experience. We’re always looking for common pain points that everybody building software in the cloud deals with. And once we find those pain points, we build best-of-class software to address the […]

Today, we are delighted to share the release of Azure Backup Instant Restore capability for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Instant Restore helps Azure Backup customers quickly recover VMs from the snapshots stored along with the disks. In addition, users get complete flexibility in configuring the retention range of snapshots at the backup policy level depending […]

This blog post was co-authored by David Armour, Principal Program Manager, Azure Stack. Start with what you already have Every organization has a unique journey to the cloud. This journey is based on the organization’s history, business specifics, culture, and maybe most importantly, their starting point. While it can be hard for some to say […]

Accelerate Advanced Analytics: 4-week Assessment: This engagement by Applied Cloud Systems involves an assessment of your analytics capabilities, a period of incubation in Azure, and a path forward. This is a four-week assessment for small to medium-sized organizations. Accelerate Advanced Analytics: 8-week Assessment: This engagement by Applied Cloud Systems involves an assessment of your analytics […]

We are happy to announce that Metric Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now available in public preview. Dynamic Thresholds are a significant enhancement to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts. With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics’ […]

TypeScript is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript community. Since Azure Functions runs Node.js, and TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, motivated users already could get TypeScript code up and running in Azure Functions. However, the experience wasn’t seamless, and things like our default folder structure made getting started a bit tricky. Today we’re pleased to announce […]

Azure Functions provides a productive programming model based on triggers and bindings for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. It enables developers to build apps using the programming languages and tools of their choice, with an end-to-end developer experience that spans from building and debugging locally, to deploying and monitoring in the cloud. […]

It’s amazing to look back at everything we’ve learned from our customers since we first released HoloLens. Across manufacturing, education, retail, gaming, and many other industries, developers and businesses are using mixed reality in their daily workflows and giving us feedback on what they’d like to see next. When we look across all the mixed […]