Azure.Source – Volume 50
Now in preview Jenkins Azure ACR Build plugin now in public preview - Azure Container Registry (ACR) Build is a suite of features within ACR. It provides cloud-based container image building for Linux,...
View ArticleApplications of R presented at EARL London 2018
During the EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) conference in London last week, the organizers asked me how I thought the conference had changed over the years. (This is the conference's...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Fly Strong
I was about the same age as student pilot Maggie Taraska when I had my first solo flight. Unlike Maggie, I didn't have to deal with a busy airspace, or air traffic control, or engines (I was in a...
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MICROSOFT CLOUD AND ENTERPRISE CPPCON EVENT SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PLEASE NOTE: It is your sole responsibility to comply with your employer’s gift policies. If your...
View ArticleAzure Container Registry: Public preview of Helm Chart Repositories and more
With Azure Container Registry (ACR), you can easily store and manage container images for Azure deployments in a central registry. Today we are excited to add native Helm repository support and...
View ArticleAzure SignalR Service now generally available
Since its introduction five years ago, SignalR has grown to be one of the most popular real-time connection technologies around the world. As applications that use SignalR scale, managing and scaling a...
View ArticleRelease models at pace using Microsoft’s AutoML!
What is the real problem? When creating a machine learning model, data scientists across all industry segments face the following challenges: Defining and tuning the hyperparameters, and deciding which...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s new neural text-to-speech service helps machines speak like people
Microsoft has reached a milestone in text-to-speech synthesis with a production system that uses deep neural networks to make the voices of computers nearly indistinguishable from recordings of people....
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure user experience improvements at Ignite 2018
Hello Azure friends! Today we are proud to share a new set of improvements to the Azure user experience. The changes included in this blog post are only a subset of the multiple improvements that we...
View ArticleSAP at Microsoft Ignite: Announcing SAP Data Custodian for Azure
Enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation. We have seen this momentum over the last year as evidenced by customers moving their mission critical SAP applications to Azure. This digital...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure Premium Blob Storage (limited public preview)
Today we are excited to announce the limited public preview of Azure Premium Blob Storage, which introduces a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and...
View Article10 new ways for everyone to achieve more in the modern workplace
It’s been over a year since we introduced Microsoft 365, the complete, intelligent, and secure solution that empowers employees to drive their organizations to future growth. Customers are seeking to...
View ArticleBringing AI to Excel—4 new features announced today at Ignite
Excel’s power comes from its simplicity. At its core, Excel is three things: cells of data laid out in rows and columns, a powerful calculation engine, and a set of tools for working with the data. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft 365 adds modern desktop on Azure
Today, we are announcing Windows Virtual Desktop, the best virtualized Windows and Office experience delivered on Azure. Windows Virtual Desktop is the only cloud-based service that delivers a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Search—cohesive search that intelligently helps you find, discover,...
At Ignite last year, we introduced personalized search across Office 365, a way to bring intelligent search and discovery experiences directly to you. Today, we’re delighted to announce that we are...
View ArticleGoodyear mobilizes with Microsoft 365 to lead in a new mobility ecosystem
Today’s post was written by Sherry Neubert, chief information officer at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Goodyear has a 120-year history of being at the forefront of an ever-changing mobility...
View ArticleOffice 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and...
View ArticleLilly envisions a workplace where internal and external collaboration help...
Today’s post was written by Mike Meadows, vice president and chief technology officer at Eli Lilly and Company. We have an expression at Lilly that inspires our workforce every day: the patient is...
View ArticleNavigation Update for Azure DevOps
Back in June of this year, we rolled out the first iteration of our new navigation model for Azure DevOps. We’ve spent the summer improving that experience based on the feedback many of you have...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse now supports maintenance scheduling
As customer build their mission-critical analytics solutions using Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), Microsoft's fast, flexible and secure analytics platform, we want to ensure that we give them...
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