Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kavya Sinha. V3 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2019 with SQL 2017 as its database. MABS V3 brings key enhancements in the areas of storage and security. Security Preventing critical volumes’ data loss While selecting volumes for storage that should be used for backups by MABS, user may accidently select the wrong volume. Selecting volumes containing critical data may result in unexpected data loss. With MABS V3 you can prevent this by disabling these volumes to be available for backup ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gaurav Malhotra. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a managed data integration service in Azure that allows you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. Azure Functions is now integrated with ADF, allowing you to run an Azure function as a step in your data factory pipelines. Simply drag an ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mine Tokus. We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get started today, follow the instructions in the table below. High availability architectures are designed to continue to function even when there are database, hardware, or network failures. Azure Virtual Machine instances using Premium Storage for all operating system disks and data disks offers 99.9 percent availability. This SLA is impacted by three scenarios – unplanned hardware maintenance, unexpected downtime, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Koichi Hirao. For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem has grown to one of the largest in the industry with more than 1,000 devices and starter kits from over 250 partners. Today, we are taking steps to further to grow our device partner ecosystem with the release of Azure IoT certification service (AICS), a new web-based test automation workflow, which is now generally available. AICS will significantly reduce ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft IoT. It’s 1882. Thomas Edison has just surpassed his breakthrough invention—the first incandescent lightbulb—by collaborating with J.P. Morgan to open the first industrial-scale power station in the United States. Flash forward to today: Power generation, distribution, transmission, and consumption now drive business and modern life around the globe. The industry operates on a vast scale, with a complex web of relationships and technology that enables instant, reliable delivery throughout much of the developed world. And that grid that got its start ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. 1 Week CIO Assessment: CrucialLogics will perform an assessment to determine the current IT landscape and generate an executive deliverable with action plans and next steps for the IT road map on your Microsoft platform (Office 365, Azure, Dynamics). Accelerating Digital Transformation Assessment: In this one-day workshop, sopra steria will assess your technology and application transformational journey in line with your business strategy, then provide a report advising either rebuilding, rehosting, or refactoring your apps. Azure & Microsoft 365 Security:2-Wk Implementation: Protect your business data, operational infrastructure, and business identity against cyber threats ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xuedong Huang. Applying the latest in deep learning innovation, Speech Service, part of Azure Cognitive Services now offers a neural network-powered text-to-speech capability. Access the preview available today. Neural Text-to-Speech makes the voices of your apps nearly indistinguishable from the voices of people. Use it to make conversations with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, to convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and to upgrade in-car navigation systems with natural voice experiences and more. This release includes significant enhancements since we first revealed Neural Text-to-Speech at Ignite earlier this year. Enhanced ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sercan Guler. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions. What is a static website? Static websites refer to websites that can be loaded and served statically from a pre-defined set of files. You can now build a static website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that are hosted on Azure Storage. In contrast, if you want to host a dynamic website with the ASP.NET, Java, or Node runtime, use Azure Web Apps and rely on the runtime to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sujay Talasila. Azure offers built-in disaster recovery (DR) solution for Azure Virtual Machines through Azure Site Recovery (ASR). In addition to the broadest global coverage, Azure has the most comprehensive resiliency strategy in the industry from mitigating rack level failures with Availability Sets and data center failures with Availability Zones to protecting against large-scale events with failover to separate regions with ASR. A common question we get is about costs associated with configuring DR for Azure virtual machines. We have listened and prioritized. Configuring disaster recovery for Azure VMs using ASR will incur the following ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asavari Tayal. Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. This post gives an overview of the newly introduced experiences and capabilities made available through this feature. What's in this release? With this release, you can now develop your Functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source Functions ... Read More