We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 86 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications 360°VR Museum: The 360°VR Museum is a virtual exhibition platform that allows users to view HD 360-degree re-creations of local and international exhibitions where visitors […]
PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2
Congratulations to the PyTorch community on the release of PyTorch 1.2! Last fall, as part of our dedication to open source AI, we made PyTorch one of the primary, fully supported training frameworks on Azure. PyTorch is supported across many of our AI platform services and our developers participate in the PyTorch community, contributing key […]
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland
UBS Group, Swiss Re Group, Swisscom, and others turn to Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure from our new cloud regions in Switzerland. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital […]
Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps, and content is pivotal to a business’ success. The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration. In most cases, this is caused by commercial internet connections that aren’t tailored to today’s global cloud needs. Through deployment and […]
3 Ways to Increase Audit Efficiency While Adding Value
Technology is transforming the practice of audit at an unprecedented pace. In fact, it’s not hard to envision audits in the future as entirely untouched by human hands. Indeed this is an exciting future to consider. While you contemplate the long-term implications, though, don’t overlook how technologies available today can help you automate many routine […]
Harnessing the power of the Location of Things with Azure Maps
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the beginning of accessing planetary-scale insights. With the mass adoption of IoT and the very near future explosion of sensors, connectivity, and computing, humanity is on the cusp of a fully connected, intelligent world. We will be part of the generation that realizes the data-rich, algorithmically deterministic lifestyle the […]
Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient
Azure introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform in late 2017. This platform adds a whole new set of abilities for customer workloads using the new Standard Load Balancer. One of the key additions the new Load Balancer platform brings, is a simplified, more predictable and efficient outbound connectivity management. While already integrated with […]
Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration
Today we are announcing a preview of a new feature of Azure Policy. The guest configuration capability, which audits settings inside Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs), is now ready for customers to author and publish custom content. The guest configuration platform has been generally available for built-in content provided by Microsoft. Customers are using […]
Plan migration of your Hyper-V servers using Azure Migrate Server Assessment
Azure Migrate is focused on streamlining your migration journey to Azure. We recently announced the evolution of Azure Migrate, which provides a streamlined, comprehensive portfolio of Microsoft and partner tools to meet migration needs, all in one place. An important capability included in this release is upgrades to Server Assessment for at-scale assessments of VMware […]
IoT Plug and Play is now available in preview
Today we are announcing that IoT Plug and Play is now available in preview! At Microsoft Build in May 2019, we announced IoT Plug and Play and described how it will work seamlessly with IoT Central. We demonstrated how IoT Plug and Play simplifies device integration by enabling solution developers to connect and interact with […]