After wrapping up a successful preview with fantastic customer engagement, we are excited to officially announce the general availability of the Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Customers from all over the globe and across a broad range of industries participated in the Lsv2-series VMs preview during the second half of 2018. General overview The Lsv2-series […]

Migrating on-premises Apache Hadoop® and Spark workloads to the cloud remains a key priority for many organizations. In my last post, I shared “Tips and tricks for migrating on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Azure HDInsight.” In this series, one of HDInsight’s partners, Unravel Data, will share their learnings, best practices, and guidance based on their insights from […]

Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been enabling Query Store to provide insight on query performance. We’re excited to share the general availability of Query Store worldwide for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Query Store automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics and retains them for your review when monitoring your […]

This week, at The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Microsoft and The Things Network Foundation collaborate with 2,000 LoRaWAN developers, innovators, and integrators on connecting devices to Azure IoT Central using the open source project Azure IoT Central Device Bridge. Internet of Things (IoT) applications are about harnessing sensors and device data to transform processes and […]

The healthcare industry is poised for massive transformation. With an aging population, chronic diseases, and increased regulations, healthcare costs continue to balloon—along with patient and provider expectations for better outcomes. Intelligent healthcare, including IoT technology, is a key way to address these critical challenges. Intelligent, connected solutions are lowering costs, increasing patient care and health, […]

You know that feeling—the one that rushes in right after you’ve cracked an achingly tough problem or a tangled string of code. It’s the pure adrenaline, joy, and satisfaction you get from reaching the next level—a new challenge in and of itself. This year’s #AzureTrivia celebrates your love of problem solving, growth, and adventure. Players […]

Last year, we shared the release of a great developer experience through Ansible in Azure Cloud Shell, and the Ansible extension for Visual Studio Code. Today we’re excited to be expanding our support of Ansible on Azure with a fully configured Azure Marketplace Ansible solution. As you know from interacting with Microsoft Azure services, we […]

This post was co-authored by the QnA Maker Team. With Microsoft Bot Framework, you can build chatbots and conversational applications in a variety of ways. Whether you’re looking to develop a bot from scratch with the open source Bot Framework, looking to create your own branded assistant with the Virtual Assistant solution accelerator, or looking […]

Over the last five years, a gradual shift is observed toward open source environments for a number of advantages over boxed open sources. Factors of lower cost, flexibility, security, performance, and community support for open source operating systems, primarily Linux distros have largely been driving this shift across organizations. Microsoft has embraced this industry trend […]

This blog was co-authored by Sujay Talasila, Senior Program Manager, Cloud + Enterprise. Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud to offer native disaster recovery (DR) solution for applications running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs). Six months ago, we announced the general availability of DR for Azure VMs using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Since then […]