Organizing subscriptions and resource groups within the Enterprise

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One of the common questions members of the Core Services Engineering and Operations teams frequently get when speaking to customers at the Executive Briefing Center here in Redmond is how do our engineering teams secure our Azure footprint for our Line of Business applications while still giving developers...

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What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: April 2018 Digest

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This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration...

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Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB: NoSQL data access on Azure

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB is now available to provide essential Spring Data support for Azure Cosmos DB using SQL API. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service with exceptional scalability and performance. With Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB,...

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Azure DDoS Protection for virtual networks generally available

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We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DDoS Protection Standard service in all public cloud regions. This service is integrated with Azure Virtual Networks (VNet) and provides protection and defense for Azure resources against the impacts of DDoS attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...

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Announcing new Azure Security Center capabilities at RSA 2018

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Migrating your workloads to the cloud can enable some inherent security benefits. With cloud scale machine learning and security analytics, you can mitigate threats quickly, making your environment more secure and your organization more productive. Azure Security Center provides centralized visibility of the security state of your resources...

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Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management

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Azure SQL Database automatic tuning, industry’s first truly auto-tuning database based on Artificial Intelligence, is now providing more flexibility and power with the global introduction of the following new features: ◈ Automatic plan correction ◈ Management via T-SQL ◈ Index created by automatic tuning flag Automatic tuning is...

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SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates

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The preview for long-term backup retention in Azure SQL Database was announced in October 2016, providing you with a way to easily manage long-term retention for your databases – up to 10 years – with backups stored in your own Azure Backup Service Vault. Based upon feedback gathered...

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Three common analytics use cases with Microsoft Azure Databricks

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Data science and machine learning can be applied to solve many common business scenarios, yet there are many barriers preventing organizations from adopting them. Collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts and curating data, structured and unstructured, from disparate sources are two examples of such barriers...

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