Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better

August 19, 2019 Azure Blog Feed RSS Feedbot

Since launching Azure Archive Storage, we have seen unprecedented interest and innovative usage from a variety of industries. Archive Storage is built as a scalable service for cost-effectively storing rarely accessed data for long periods of time. Cold data such as application backups, healthcare records, autonomous driving recordings, etc. that might have been previously deleted could be stored in Azure Storage’s Archive tier in an offline state, then rehydrated to an online tier when needed. Earlier this month, we made Azure Archive Storage even more affordable by reducing prices by up to 50 percent in some regions, as part of our commitment to provide the most cost-effective data storage offering.

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New Quick Action Transformations Added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows

August 17, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

Data Factory Mapping Data Flows has added a new "Quick Actions" feature to automate the creation of data transformations.
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Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x

August 15, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

We are now announcing the max vcore limit has increased by 4x to 16 vcores and provides greater compute scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks now generally available

August 15, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks is the new managed disks offering which is now generally available for running data intensive business critical workloads on cloud requiring high IO performance and low latency
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Azure Ultra Disk Storage: Microsoft's service for your most I/O demanding workloads

August 15, 2019 Azure Blog Feed RSS Feedbot

Today, Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage, an Azure Managed Disks offering that provides massive throughput with sub-millisecond latency for your most I/O demanding workloads. With the introduction of Ultra Disk Storage, Azure includes four types of persistent disk—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD. This portfolio gives you price and performance options tailored to meet the requirements of every workload. Ultra Disk Storage delivers consistent performance and low latency for I/O intensive workloads like SAP Hana, OLTP databases, NoSQL, and other transaction-heavy workloads...

Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage

August 15, 2019 Azure Blog Feed RSS Feedbot

Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk Storage—a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads. With Ultra Disk Storage, customers are now able to lift-and-shift mission critical enterprise applications to the cloud including applications like SAP HANA, top tier SQL databases such as SQL Server, Oracle DB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra.With the introduction of Ultra Disk Storage, Azure now offers four types of persistent disks—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD...

Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available

August 14, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
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Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available

August 14, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
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Visual Authoring API for Power BI Embedded now available

August 14, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

The new Power BI Report Authoring SDK extension allows programmatic creation of visuals, binding them to columns, measures, hierarchies, and personalizing them by setting properties like axis visibility and titles.
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The service principal is now available for Power BI Embedded

August 14, 2019 Azure Roadmap Feed RSS Feedbot

Service principal allows you to access resources or perform operations using Power BI API without the need for a user to sign in or have a Power BI Pro license.
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