Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure

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This blog will cover the design, technology, and recommendations for setting up disaster recovery (DR) for an enterprise customer, to achieve best in class recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) with an SAP S/4HANA landscape. Microsoft Azure provides a trusted path to enterprise-ready innovation with...

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Updates to geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease. By using these...

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Azure Search – New Storage Optimized service tiers available in preview

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Azure Search is an AI-powered cloud search service for modern mobile and web app development. Azure Search is the only cloud search service with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that enrich all types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale. It uses the same...

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Introducing cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview

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The preview of incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available. Incremental snapshots are a cost-effective point-in-time backup of managed disks. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot. They are...

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Announcing the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files

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Better scale and more power for IT professionals and developers! We're excited to announce the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files. Azure Files is a secure, fully managed public cloud file storage with full range of data redundancy options and hybrid capabilities...

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Microsoft 70-462 Certification: Launch Your Career as Database Experts

Cloud computing is prevalent nowadays. It is because it makes every task much more effective and much less time-consuming. Cloud computing is a service that performs it possible for a person to store, access, and share data over the Internet. Microsoft SQL is one such cloud computing service...

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Microsoft Azure AI hackathon’s winning projects

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We are excited to share the winners of the first Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon, hosted on Devpost. Developers of all backgrounds and skill levels were welcome to join and submit any form of AI project, whether using Azure AI to enhance existing apps with pre-trained machine learning (ML)...

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Azure Analysis Services web designer adds new DAX query viewer

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We released the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This new browser-based experience allows developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly and easily. While SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) are still the primary tools for development, this...

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Gartner names Microsoft a leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS

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Microsoft accelerates application development with Azure Integration Services Personal computers revolutionized the way work was done. New software unlocked unprecedented levels of productivity, and for a time, business flourished. As the personal computer exploded in popularity, more and more software was created. For the individual, this was a...

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Leveraging Cognitive Services to simplify inventory tracking

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Who spends their summer at the Microsoft Garage New England Research & Development Center (or “NERD”)? The Microsoft Garage internship seeks out students who are hungry to learn, not afraid to try new things, and able to step out of their comfort zones when faced with ambiguous situations....

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SAP on Azure–Designing for availability and recoverability

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Robust SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of security, performance and scalability, availability and recoverability, efficiency and operations. We covered designing for performance and scalability previously and within this blog we will focus on availability and recoverability. Designing for availability Designing for availability ensures that...

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