Many of the conveniences we enjoy today are dependent on the infrastructure cities and municipalities provide, such as water mains, streetlights, and roads. This infrastructure and its associated technology support our transportation systems, schools, hospitals, and more. A vital type of infrastructure is the electrical grid – every basic need we have is dependent on […]

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge which enables customers to bring cloud intelligence to the edge and act immediately on real-time data, whether it be a drone recognizing a crack in a gas pipe or predicting equipment failure before it happens. Azure IoT Edge is built to be secure, […]

Data is essential to your business. The ability to unblock business insights more efficiently can be a key competitive advantage to the enterprise. As data grows in volume, variety, and velocity, organizations need to bring together a continuously increasing set of diverse datasets across silos in order to perform advanced analytics and uncover business opportunities. […]

One of the benefits of moving to the cloud is that you, our customer, don’t need to deal with hardware maintenance and repairs; you can focus your time on your business applications. Azure continuously monitors for hardware that shows signs of degradation or potential failure. When these conditions are detected, Azure will attempt to live […]

Our goal on the Azure Stream Analytics team is to empower developers and make it incredibly easy to leverage the power of Azure to analyze big data in real-time. We achieve this by continuously listening for feedback from our customers and ship features that are delightful to use and serve as a tool for tackling […]

Based on Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery usage trends, we know that many of you are well along on your Azure migration journey. We’re now working on the next wave of innovation to further enhance and simplify your migration experience. We have a great opportunity for you to influence and shape product direction through […]

Since version 3.0, PowerShell has supported applying argument completers to cmdlet parameters. These argument completers allow you to tab through a set of values that are valid for the parameter. However, unlike ValidateSet which enforces that only the provided values are passed to the cmdlet, argument completers do not restrict the values that can be […]

E-commerce merchants all over the world are innovating every day to offer customers the best user experience. To keep customers coming back, the buying experience should leave only good impressions, from beginning to end. To achieve this, merchants want to examine every step—especially the payment checkout. So, payment processors need to complement and support the […]

Now available in preview Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preview Scale out read-heavy workloads on Azure Database for PostgreSQL with read replicas, which enable continuous, asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL master server to up to five Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replica servers in the same […]

Today, Microsoft is announcing new intelligent cloud and intelligent edge capabilities for U.S. government customers. These new capabilities will help government customers uniquely address “the tactical edge”—or, a dependence on information systems and connectivity in harsh scenarios or other situations where users have critical data availability, integrity, and transparency needs. As U.S. government agencies support […]