Underwater Azure Datacenter with Project Natick
Microsoft Project Natick is an innovative research project to discover new ways of hosting datacenters underwater. The goal of this research project is to determine…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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Azure IoT DevKit: Upgrade Firmware – MXChip, AZ3166
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is built for prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and getting started quickly and easily. As part…
Azure GPU Computing in the Cloud
One of the many exciting new features to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform that Microsoft announces at AzureCon 2015 is the all new Azure GPU…
What is DocumentDB?
Azure DocumentDB is a NoSQL document database that uses the JSON data format for storing and querying documents. Being a feature of Microsoft Azure, DocumentDB…
Did you know Ruby apps run on Azure too?
Did you know Ruby applications can be hosted on Microsoft Azure too? Microsoft Azure is about much more than just Windows and Microsoft’s developer tools. Just…
Happy 7th Birthday Microsoft Azure! (2017)
February 1, 2017 marks the 7th anniversary of when Microsoft turned on billing for the new Microsoft Azure service. Happy birthday Azure! Initially the service…
Azure Storage Explorer now supports Linux and more
When the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer was first released, it did seem a little odd that Microsoft would neglect supporting Linux. However, they did support…
Azure Marketplace: Barracuda
Among the many different 3rd party appliance and other solutions within the Azure Marketplace are a few from Barracuda. These images provide a simple, easy…
Is Azure Active Directory Microsoft’s weakest link?
How can there be a single point of failure in a service that runs the entire Microsoft cloud? Yesterday, there was a global outage of…
Deciding PaaS or SaaS for Building IoT Solutions in Microsoft Azure
Building out an IoT (Internet of Things) solution can be a difficult problem to solve. It sounds easy at first, you just connect a bunch…
Why Microsoft Azure?
Many companies are migrating existing or building new systems on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. There’s a lot of buzz lately around the Cloud overall,…
Deploy C# Script Function App using Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline
A powerful way to write and build Azure Functions is to use C# Script. This allows you to easily write function directly within the Azure…
New Microsoft AI Shell Public Preview
During Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced the public preview of AI Shell, a groundbreaking innovation that integrates artificial intelligence directly into command-line workflows. With this…
Terraform: Output URL to Azure Portal for Azure Resources
HashiCorp Terraform is an extremely powerful IaC tool for managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure through code, from the command-line, and from CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions…
Azure IoT Developer Kit Preview Started Shipping
A couple months ago Microsoft announced the availability of the new Azure IoT Developer Kit Board. This is a board that has integrated sensors, buttons,…
Azure IoT DevKit Preview built with Arduino and VSCode
There have been a number of Azure IoT Starter Kits available for some time now. I’ve written about the Starter Kits in the past. Some of…
Introduction to Azure Developer CLI: Accelerate App & Infrastructure Deployment on Microsoft Azure
As developers and organizations increasingly adopt cloud solutions, streamlining the deployment of applications and infrastructure becomes a critical part of achieving efficiency and scalability. Microsoft’s…
Messaging Architecture: What is AMQP?
Messaging has become pretty fundamental with the wider adoption of Microservices and other cloud design pattern. There are many ways to transmit a message. Many messaging…
Microsoft Blockchain Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) Released
It’s been about a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the Coco Framework they’ve been working on. It’s been about a full year…
What is Microservices Architecture?
What really is a Microservices Architecture? The term “Microservices” has become fairly popular in recent years, and has coincided largely with the increasingly popular move to…