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Microsoft has announced a new and expanded Azure Data Lake that makes big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible. Azure Data Lake makes it easy for developers, data scientists, and analysts to store data of any size, shape and speed, and do all…

At AzureCon 2015, Microsoft made several announcements related to IoT that will help customers quickly and easily capture their untapped data, create new intelligence, and ultimately transform their business, including: Availability of the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite: Now available to purchase, the Azure IoT Suite…

Azure Cloud provides a broader geographic coverage based on its data centre locations than cloud rivals Amazon and Google according to Mike Schutz, General Manager, Microsoft Cloud Platform Marketing. At the Deutsche Bank 2015 Technology Conference last week, Schutz said “We operate today in about…

Regardless of which type of cloud your business chooses to utilise, there are some common properties and benefits. In this video, Microsoft executives explain the differences and advantages in each type of cloud.

Microsoft announced back in December 2014 that extended support for SQL Server 2005 will end in April 2016 – that’s just 7 months from now. Staying ahead of the support date will help achieve regulatory compliance and mitigate potential future security risks. That means SQL…

Microsoft has announced ASP.NET WebHooks preview as a new addition to the ASP.NET family. WebHooks is a lightweight HTTP pattern providing a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and SaaS services. When an event happens in a service, a notification is sent in…

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of its Live Encoding service as part of several of updates announced for the Azure Media Services suite. Live Encoding allows broadcasters to send a single video stream to Azure Media Services, where it is encoded into an adaptive…

On the .NET Blog Microsoft announced that MSBuild is now open source, and it is going cross-platform: “The .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) has been open source for a while now, Microsoft is taking .NET open source and cross-platform, and the ASP.NET 5 Runtime is open…