Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tanuj Bansal. Azure Marketplace offers thousands of industry-leading apps and services from Microsoft and partners, certified and optimized to run on Azure. Azure Marketplace makes it easy to find, try, and buy the solutions you need confidently and quickly to drive business outcomes. Introducing private Azure Marketplace To simplify governance and deployment of apps for our customers, we are announcing the general availability of private Azure Marketplace. Private Azure Marketplace is built on top of Azure Marketplace to enable governance of which apps are available for deployment in the company. Apps can be added from Azure Marketplace ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management and Billing can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Devarayulu Tula. Enterprises are increasingly defined by the applications they use and build to run their core business processes, including the customer experiences they provide. Across all sectors, we see how companies like challenger banks, online healthcare providers, e-commerce providers, and other startups are winning customers by providing new applications. The continuous need to innovate and deliver faster has yielded a new paradigm of software development called cloud native. Cloud native describes the applications, architectures, platforms, infrastructure, and processes, that together make it economical and possible to respond quickly to a changing landscape and growing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Brown. As the Azure engineering team continues to deliver a rapid pace of innovation for defense customers, we’re also continuing to support Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners in delivering new capabilities to serve mission needs. In many cases, accelerating mission workloads means forging a faster and more secure way for teams to build, ship, and authorize new applications. For the broad range of suppliers providing goods and services to the DoD, including the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), this also means navigating evolving compliance requirements. Navigating the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Joao Couto. ​This blog post has been co-authored by Hiren Shah, Principal PM Manager, SAP on Azure SAP solutions power the digital enterprise core of many enterprises. As part of their digital transformation journeys, organizations are looking to migrate their mission-critical SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure to take advantage of hyperscale cloud, agility, and business continuity. Migrating mission-critical SAP environments requires careful planning and expertise to minimize risk and downtime. However, with the right automation tools and a team of experts, migration doesn’t need to be cumbersome. To streamline migration for our customers, and to help ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ricardo Duncan. In 2021, each month we will be releasing a monthly blog covering the webinar of the month for the low-code application development (LCAD) on Azure solution. LCAD on Azure is a new solution to demonstrate the robust development capabilities of integrating low-code Microsoft Power Apps and the Azure products you may be familiar with.   This month's webinar is A Deep Dive into Serverless Applications on Power Apps and Azure. In this blog, I will briefly recap low-code application development on Azure, provide an overview of serverless, reasons for why to build a serverless Power App, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Amit Srivastava. This blog post was co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager The Internet is the new corporate network and the fabric that connects users, devices, and data to applications of all types. It is foundational to how organizations run their businesses, engage their customers, conduct commerce, operate their supply chain, and enable their employees to work from anywhere. However, while the Internet is highly scalable and ever expanding, it is not always well optimized for the wide variety of applications and user experiences, and has little cybersecurity protections in place to secure applications from rising security threats and vulnerabilities. Given how central these workloads are for enterprises, they look for a new class of content delivery network ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jaspreet Kaur. This blog post was co-authored by Sanjay Satheesh, Product Marketing Manager for Azure Automation. If you are like many of our customers running a mix of machines and applications in your on-premises datacenters or in the cloud, be it Azure or any other platform of your choice, consistent management of these resources is likely to be top of mind for you. Infrastructure Automation was one of the major investment areas for many companies in 2020 and with the global pandemic impacting every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. We have seen the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rahul Ajmera. Accelerate big data analytics with the Spark 3.0 compatible connector for SQL Server—now in preview. We are announcing that the preview release of the Apache Spark 3.0 compatible Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL, available through Maven. Open sourced in June 2020, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in big data analytics and persist results for ad-hoc queries or reporting. It allows you to use SQL Server or Azure SQL as input data sources or output data sinks ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Vijay Kumar. Businesses today are building and running applications across a variety of ecosystems on-premises, in multiple clouds, and on edge. To maintain agility and ensure compliance, it’s critical to an organization’s success to effectively manage servers, applications, and data at scale—regardless of where they are located. Microsoft Azure Arc is a set of technologies that unlocks new on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud scenarios for customers by extending Azure services and management to any infrastructure. Across industries, customers are taking advantage of Azure Arc to bring Azure management to any infrastructure and enable Azure services to run anywhere ... Read More