Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asir Selvasingh. Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments. Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this blog to briefly explain what they are and how they may be useful to you. To clear up a lot of confusion, despite the name, these are not clouds they are separate for Azure. Rather, they use the Azure cloud along with existing tools and products customized for a specific industry and placed within the Azure cloud (think “add-ons”). These industry clouds package together ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erich Barnstedt. In the world we live in today, almost every announcement has the word “open” in it. Unfortunately, it feels like there are as many definitions of what “open” means as there are announcements mentioning it. Sometimes it means “we have documented our closed-source SDK from our 100 percent proprietary product”, but nothing more. Allow me to give you my definition. Plus, you can sign up for a free digital event to learn more about Microsoft's commitment to Open Source. When we started the Industrial IoT team eight years ago, our team had already been ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. This blog post has been co-authored by Charlie Lagervik, Principal Program Manager. Consumers today demand flexibility and convenience in how they purchase everything from groceries to home goods. In addition to shopping online, they are increasingly using mobile devices and other digital services to make in-store shopping more efficient and convenient. In response, retailers are striving to reimagine their physical store footprints to drive new and improved shopping experiences. Leading retailers are rapidly developing new solutions to deliver a retail experience that drives loyalty, both online and in stores. Common challenges to implementing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sue Hartford. There’s still time to register for the Azure Virtual Desktop Master Class on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Time. Join us to expand your cloud desktop virtualization skillset and learn how to deliver secure remote work experiences with Azure Virtual Desktop. Here are five great reasons to attend the Azure Virtual Desktop Master Class: 1. Learn best practices for deploying and operating Azure Virtual Desktop Hear from product experts on how to plan and deploy your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment in Azure. See technical deep dives ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Simona Cotin. Site performance is crucial when creating applications on the modern web. It has a direct impact on user experience, search engine rankings, and user conversion rates. With Azure Static Web Apps, we're committed to building a platform that helps you deliver the best results for your users at a global scale. It provides streamlined full-stack development and hosting across static content and serverless APIs to power high productivity from source code to global high availability. Today, we are announcing the preview of the Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ali Dalloul. Microsoft is helping to reshape the automotive industry in the way it serves its drivers with in-vehicle infotainment systems. As an example, Azure is partnering with XPeng to enable AI voice experiences for automotive brands and customers. The solution provides the industry with a fresh take on text-to-speech and expressive voice, global languages, speaker fidelity, and self-service customization. XPeng joins a growing trend of automakers rethinking investments in environmental voice. “This is a cutting-edge exploration of vehicle voice interaction in the auto industry,” Xpeng automotive AI product senior expert Hao Chao said. “The ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. We started 2021 with great hopes of putting the global pandemic behind us. While it's happening much slower than any of us may have wanted, we're getting there. Yet, while we evolve and learn new ways to work, the need to manage and reduce cost continues to grow. With that in mind, 2021 was more focused on platform capabilities in Azure Cost Management and Billing and the underlying commerce platform at Microsoft. You saw many improvements, but there are even more changes behind the scenes that are extending the foundation for many great things to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Shawn Hakl. In June 2021, Microsoft and AT&T reached a major milestone when we announced an industry-first collaboration to evolve Microsoft's hybrid cloud technology to support AT&T’s 5G core network workloads. Since then, we have had requests from many operators, partners, and customers to share more details. This blog is intended to do just that. An eye toward future innovation: Harnessing the power of the cloud Through Azure for Operators, Microsoft has forged close ties with AT&T personnel, product services groups, and partners. At the heart of the value Microsoft delivers in each of these ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and the need for millions of transactions per second, NoSQL filled that need, but is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases and uses eventual consistency instead of ACID (among other differences). Then came NewSQL, which is a class of RDBMS that seeks to provide the scalability of NoSQL systems for OLTP workloads while maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database system. Now the latest technology for ... Read More