Earlier this week, Corey Sanders announced preview of a new Azure Backup capability to backup SQL workloads running in Azure Virtual Machines in his post about why you should bet on azure for your infrastructure needs today and in the future. In this blog, we will elaborate on how this enterprise backup provides a new […]

Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) is a serverless PaaS service in Azure to prepare and transform large amounts of data stored in Azure Data Lake Store or Azure Blob Storage at unparalleled scale. ADLA now offers some new, unparalleled capabilities for processing files of any formats including Parquet at tremendous scale. Previously: Handling tens of […]

We are pleased to announce the integration of VSCode explorer with Azure blob storage. If you are a data scientist and want to explore the data in your Azure blob storage, please try the Data Lake Explorer blob storage integration. If you are a developer and want to access and manage your Azure blob storage […]

Last month, we announced the extension of Azure Security Center’s detection for Linux. This post aims to demonstrate how existing Windows detections often have Linux analogs. A specific example of this is the encoding or obfuscation of command-lines. Some of the reasons an attacker might wish to encode their commands include minimizing quoting/escaping issues when […]

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From May 1 to 15, 28 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Altova Server Platform: This free Azure virtual machine template makes it easier and more convenient to use Altova server software in the cloud. The […]

Azure Data Lake Analytics combines declarative and imperative concepts in the form of a new language called U-SQL. The idea of learning a new language is daunting. Don’t worry! U-SQL is easy to learn. You can learn the vast majority of the language in a single day. If you are familiar with SQL or languages […]

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers – Before we can take a look at what's happened in Azure in the past week, be sure to check out this exciting news about an agreement for Microsoft to acquire GitHub. GitHub&emdash;home to more than 85 million code repositories&emdash;will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an […]

This blog post was authored by the Microsoft Speech Services team​. At Microsoft Build 2018, the Microsoft Speech Services team announced the following new and improved products and services. Speech service as a preview, including Speech to Text with custom speech, Text to Speech with custom voice, and Speech Translation. Speech SDK as a preview, […]

Earlier today, we announced some exciting updates across Azure IaaS, including that we will expand the footprint of Microsoft Azure Stack to a total of 92 countries. On my first week as the new Azure Stack marketing leader, I am incredibly proud of the great work that has been done by the Azure Stack team […]