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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of a New Set of Azure Arc-Enabled Services
Recently, Microsoft, during its annual Build conference, announced a new set of Azure Service in preview that customers can run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of its Azure Arc multi-cloud service. With Azure Arc, customers can use a single service in the Cloud to manage their container clusters across clouds and on-premises data centers.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers to run workflows anywhere.
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Microsoft Announces Event Hubs Premium in Preview
Azure Event Hubs is Microsoft’s managed real-time event ingestion service designed to serve demanding big data streaming and event ingestion needs in the Cloud. Microsoft announced the public preview of Event Hubs Premium during the annual Build conference as a new product SKU tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios requiring elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.
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Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain.
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Microsoft and Elastic Partner to Offer Elastic Stack on Azure
Microsoft and Elastic have recently announced Elastic on Azure, a preview service that offers managed Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana to search, analyze, and visualize data in real time on Azure.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.
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Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.
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Microsoft Introduces Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Microsoft has introduced a preview release of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new open-source downstream distribution of OpenJDK. Microsoft Build of OpenJDK supports x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java Engineering Group at Microsoft, spoke to InfoQ about Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visualization.
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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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Azure Arc-Enabled Machine Learning Is Now in Preview
Azure Arc is Microsoft's offering for allowing customers to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure, including AWS and Google Cloud. This year, during the virtual Ignite conference, the company announced the preview of Azure Arc-enabled machine learning, which extends Azure machine learning capabilities to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Microsoft Releases Azure AD My App and New Risk Detections for Identity Protection into GA
Microsoft recently released a few new Azure Active Directory (AD) features, namely My Apps "collections" and new "risk detections" capabilities, into general availability (GA). With these features, the company intends to simplifying identity and access management while also enhancing the customization and controls.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Attestation into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Attestation, a unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and the integrity of the binaries running inside it.