Now generally available Announcing the general availability of Azure Data Box Disk Azure Data Box Disk, an SSD-based solution for offline data transfer to Azure, is now generally available in the US, EU, Canada, and Australia, with more country/regions to ... continue reading

On December 4, 2018 Microsoft’s Azure Database for open sources announced the general availability of MariaDB. This blog intends to share some guidance and best practices for alerting on the most commonly monitored metrics for MariaDB. Whether you are a ... continue reading

At Ignite 2018, Microsoft’s Azure Database for PostgreSQL announced the preview of Query Store (QS), Query Performance Insight (QPI), and Performance Recommendations (PR) to help ease performance troubleshooting, in response to customer feedback. This blog intends to inspire ideas on ... continue reading

Nations from every corner of the world are increasingly leveraging digital transformation to grow their economies and empower businesses to improve services, including vital services provided by critical infrastructures. This adoption of new information communications technologies (ICT) has unfortunately been ... continue reading

Recently, we shared details on how effectiveness is measured for Office 365 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). We also followed up with a comprehensive update on Office 365s improved ability to stop phishing emails from impacting ... continue reading

As hacking events have increased in number and severity, we in the cybersecurity community have united around common strategies that all organizations can implement to reduce their risk. Universal best practices provide organizations with many useful tools to protect their ... continue reading

Now in preview Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer managed keys for Managed Instance Announces the public preview of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Microsoft Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. Azure SQL Database ... continue reading

This blog post was co-authored by Vishwac Sena Kannan, Principal Program Manager, FUSE Labs. We are thrilled to present the release of Bot Framework SDK version 4.2 and we want to use this opportunity to provide additional updates on Conversational-AI ... continue reading

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From November 17 to November 30, 2018, 80 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual machines CloudflareAzure: Cloudflare speeds up and ... continue reading