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On April 5th, 2022, we announced the general availability of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM family, offering up to 120,000 IOPS (I/O operations per second) and 4,000MBps of remote disk storage throughput. Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of two additional Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family. The two new sizes are developed with the NVMe protocol and provide exceptional remote storage performance offering up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps throughput. The E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5 sizes are the latest memory-optimized instances offered with NVMe. These new VM sizes provide 2x more remote storage performance than existing …

Today at Ignite we launched Microsoft Syntex. Business runs on content—proposals, contracts, invoices, designs, plans, legal documents, images, training videos and more. Every workday, our customers add over 1.6 billion new documents to Microsoft 365. Microsoft Syntex is Content AI integrated in the flow of work. Syntex automatically reads, tags and indexes high volumes of content and connects it where it’s needed – in search, in applications, and as reusable knowledge. It manages your content throughout its lifecycle, with robust analytics, security, and automated retention. It puts people at the center, with content integrated into collaboration …

Overview   Today we are excited to share our first efforts with cross-platform development, to help React Native developers to add calling capabilities into their current application following the release of Calling Composite experience on mobile platforms earlier this year. We have created a React Native sample showcasing how to introduce calling capabilities into React Native cross-platform applications. If you have a React Native application and would like to add calling capabilities, follow our sample app to see how you can easily integrate the Azure Communication Services (ACS) Calling Composite in your app. The Calling Composite experience of the ACS UI…

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor Logs’ new set of features, which let you gain more value from your logs at a lower cost. These features were made available in public preview in early 2022 and have already been successfully adopted by a large set of customers, from small companies to very large, complex organizations. The features we’re announcing today provide significant value based on feedback from our preview customers. We’re very happy to introduce them alongside enhanced Azure portal experiences that will help you better manage and control your log data. These features were developed together with Microsoft Sentinel, to sup…

Today, we’re excited to announce that Community Templates are now available, giving our community members an opportunity to contribute to our existing template gallery. Templates are predefined Azure Data Factory pipelines that allow you to get started quickly with Data Factory. Templates are especially useful when you're new to Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse pipelines and want to get started quickly as they reduce development time for building data integration projects and improve developer productivity. A wide variety of best practices are also infused in templates that cater to different scenarios that you can build on top of. And if you have Git enabled, …

See what's new in Excel, from innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) to Excel Live, Office Scripts, and new features. Speakers: Joe McDaid, Meenaskshi Naren, Mar Gines Marin, and Nancy Wang. Continue reading...

You asked, we listened! GPU support for the i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 8M Nano is now available with NXP’s latest Windows IoT Enterprise BSP release. This was one of the most highly anticipated features and we are excited to have delivered it to you as of October 3rd, as part of NXP’s BSP version 1.2 release. The GPU driver supports the Verisilicon GC7000 UltraLite GPU that is onboard the i.MX 8M family of SoCs, unlocking the powerful graphics capabilities of DirectX. To help you bring solutions to market, we have collaborated with OEMs like SECO to support Windows IoT BSPs for i.MX boards already available on the market today. An industry leader in IoT solutions…

Hello Everyone, Azure CLI is excited to have several big announcements for Ignite this week. Added x number of new extensions and services. Az Scenario Guide WAM Authentication Flow Breaking Changes New Service Support We are happy to announce Azure CLI support for 3 new services and updates to many existing ones. As new Azure Services are announced this Ignite and part of our goal is to make sure you can manage the Azure Resources you have with the tools you want to use. These new extensions include: Azure Arc Appliance NGINX Elastic-SAN WAM Authentication Support With the release of version 2.41.0, Azure CLI has a previ…

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ZoomIt This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, adds right-justified text input, an option to scale the screen recordings resolution, and usability fixes. Continue reading...

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Today, as part of Ignite, Microsoft announced that Teams Phone Mobile is now available for Rogers Business customers in Canada and Telia customers in Sweden. This is an exciting announcement for Teams, our communication service provider partners, and for Azure for Operators (AfO), whose products and services have played a significant role bringing these offerings to market, offerings that represent a uniquely deep integration of the market’s largest Cloud UCaaS platform and operator IMS networks. Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile is a simple and seamless way to integrate end-users’ mobile identities with the Microsoft Teams productivity suite. Teams Phone Mobile enables…

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Customers use SAP systems for their business-critical operations. Today, customers want to be able to combine their SAP data with non-SAP data for their analytics needs. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is an industry-leading data integration service which enables customers to ingest data from diverse data sources (e.g., multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premises), transform data at scale, and more. Azure Data Factory (ADF) works seamlessly to combine data and prepare it at cloud-scale. Customers are using ADF to ingest data from different SAP data sources (e.g., SAP ECC, SAP Hana, SAP Table, SAP BW Open Hub, SAP BW via MDX, SAP Cloud for Customers), and combining them with data from …

Build, test, and deploy scalable apps quickly with Azure SQL updates for developers. Check out platform enhancements for modern, cloud-based apps: Create apps locally with Azure SQL Database emulator Initiate serverless operations with SQL trigger in Azure Functions Build simple and secure API connections to data with Data API Builder, coming soon Principal Architect from the SQL engineering team at Microsoft, Bob Ward, joins Jeremy Chapman to share recent updates for the developer experience. Create a local database copy. Check out more SQL updates for developers including Respond fast to customers with event-driven workf…

Find out about the all-new Surface Pro 9 on the 10th anniversary of the Surface Pro line. A secured-core PC, we’ll look at the silicon choices from the 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform for work-station class power, to the ARM-based Microsoft SQ® 3 powered by Qualcomm® SnapDragon® with 5G, for superior mobility and performance on the go. Dave Mitchell, who leads the team that engineers Surface Pro, gives a hands-on review with all the details on performance, hardware options, new capabilities brought to life by the NPU in Surface Pro 9 with 5G, and the new Firmware Attack Surface Reduction (FASR) implementation to meet Secured-core P…

We are constantly inspired by all of you and how you use Azure Data Factory for all your data integration needs. Thank you for continuing to share your feedback with us. We love hearing from you and continue to use your input to improve Azure Data Factory. Many exciting announcements are landing at the Microsoft Ignite 2022 conference, and, in this blog post, we’re thrilled to share the latest Azure Data Factory news. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a fully managed cloud service that's built for petabyte-scale data ingestion, data transformation, and orchestration at scale. Azure Data Factory provides data engineers with a familiar and productive environment fo…

New hybrid deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc. As a developer, see how to deploy AKS on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 IoT devices at the edge, as well as improve integration with Azure AD for secure access to AAD-enabled resources. For admins, get key updates on Azure Fleet Manager, a single management view for your Kubernetes clusters, along with monitoring updates using managed Grafana and the Prometheus add-on for aggregated insights. Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Service, Jorge Palma, shares how AKS combined with Azure Arc gives you the ability to run AKS anywhere you need it. Run Azure Kubernetes Service a…

Lift and shift your confidential VM and container workloads to the cloud — without code changes — for higher levels of data protection. When combined with Azure’s stringent attestation measurements, Zero Trust security and confidential computing provide the latest silicon level advances. See your options for data encryption and isolation, starting with the virtual machine layer, to containers running in the encrypted VM, and ultimately Azure Container Instances. From the Azure confidential computing team, Michael McReynolds joins Jeremy Chapman to show how this collectively compares to other options, such as encryption, using application enclaves. …

We are committed to making Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server the most advanced Postgres database service for migrating your open-source commercial database workloads and building cloud native applications in Azure. Azure Database for PostgreSQL combines the fully managed community edition of Postgres database with the broadest Postgres extension support for existing or new application development. Flexible server is the top destination for Postgres workloads migrating and modernizing to Azure because of the cost optimization benefits, maximum control over your databases, and a simplified deployment experience. In addition to these existing benef…

Build highly scalable applications using the distributed Postgres relational database in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. See how it works with current Postgres tools, how to scale out with distributed tables and nodes to keep apps responsive, and how to eliminate latency with geo-replication capabilities for globally distributed apps. Cosmos DB has a variety of APIs, including native NoSQL and compatible APIs, targeted at NoSQL workloads. With the introduction of Postgres, Cosmos DB offers relational capabilities — a key cornerstone for application developers. With distributed Postgres in Cosmos DB, you can build highly scalable, cloud native apps …

We are thrilled to announce that Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices is now generally available for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled servers! Azure Automanage machine best practices is a consolidated management solution that simplifies daily server management through effortless automation by handling the initial setup and configuration of Azure best practice services such as Azure Monitor, Backup, Microsoft Defender, Update Management, etc. Automanage continuously monitors machines across their entire lifecycle automatically bringing them back into conformance should they drift from the desired state. With Automanage machine best practices, you can take advanta…

We are excited to announce that Automated ML (AutoML) for Images within Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) is now generally available. AutoML for Images enables users to easily train computer vision models trained on image data, for tasks such as Image Classification. Object Detection and Instance Segmentation. Image from: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/slides/2021/lecture_15.pdf Customers across various industries are looking to leverage machine learning to build models that can process image data. Applications range from image classification of fashion photos to PPE detection in industrial environments. The ideal solution will allow users to easily buil…

Introduction: Since the publication of the BERT paper [1], Transformer architecture [2] based pretrained deep neural networks have become the state of the art for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. These models have helped Machine Learning professionals in research, academia, and industry alike. Many of the biggest technology companies have devoted enormous resources towards further improving these models, in terms of performance and scale, while many others have leveraged these to cater to their use cases. AzureML (Azure Machine Learning) AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) was one of the earliest adopters of Foundational Deep Neural Network Models for NL…