A few months ago, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance and insights to help you migrate to Azure. Today, we're excited to announce that Azure Migrate is generally available. Azure Migrate is offered at no additional charge and provides appliance-based, agentless discovery of your on-premises environments. It enables discovery of […]
Archives for February 2018
Transform your industry with new Microsoft IoT in Action webinar series
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way industries around the world do business. And with recent advances in sensor platforms and intelligent analytic capabilities available from the cloud, the use of IoT has become even more mainstream. As we will highlight in Microsoft’s IoT in Action webinar series, there are many new and […]
Security Center Playbooks and Azure Functions Integration with Firewalls
Every second counts when an attack has been detected. We have heard from you that you need to be able to quickly take action against detected threats. At Ignite 2017, we announced Azure Security Center Playbooks, which allow you to control how you want to respond to threats detected by Security Center. You can manually […]
StorSimple Data Manager now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of the StorSimple Data Manager. This feature allows you to transform data from StorSimple format into the native format in Azure blobs or Azure Files. Once your data is transformed, you can use services like Azure Media Services, Azure Machine Learning, HDInsight, Azure Search, and more. StorSimple […]
Nokia Unveils Blockchain-based IoT Service For Smart Cities Ahead of Mobile World Congress
This year’s Mobile World Congress will see Nokia unveil its new service for IoT sensing service for smart cities which will be based on blockchain technology. The mobile communications technology provider introduced the service that would use blockchain to monetize data and facilitate payment for IoT data. IoT (short for Internet of Things) is a highly […]
Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid!
We are happy to share that Azure Service Bus is now able to send events to Azure Event Grid. The key scenario this feature enables is for Service Bus queues, topics, or subscriptions with low message volumes to not require a receiver to be polling for messages at all times. Service Bus will now send […]
Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one
This post is the first part of two blog posts, describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using VSTS for deploying a dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure Database for MySQL. The Motivation The main motivation for building a WordPress CI/CD pipeline is the fact that WordPress is limited […]
VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We are excited to announce the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database in all Azure regions. This ability allows you to isolate connectivity to your logical server from only a given subnet or set of subnets […]
LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding
This blog post was co-authored by Riham Mansour, Principal Program Manager, Fuse Labs. Conversational systems are rapidly becoming a key component of solutions such as virtual assistants, customer care, and the Internet of Things. When we talk about conversational systems, we refer to a computer’s ability to understand the human voice and take action based […]
Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor – public preview
As more and more enterprises are hosting their applications in cloud and are relying more on SaaS and PaaS applications to provide services, they are increasingly becoming dependent on multiple external applications and the networks in between. The traditional network monitoring tools work in silos and do not provide end-to-end visibility. Therefore, if an application […]