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Today, Microsoft officially announced the general availability of DocumentDB API for MongoDB. This API for MongoDB will enable developers to experience the power of the DocumentDB database engine with the comfort of a managed service and the familiarity of the MongoDB SDKs and tools. Microsoft...

Microsoft has announced support for Azure Analysis Services for Power BI solution templates. With this, you can use Azure Analysis Services for the Campaign/Brand Management for Twitter, System Center Configuration Manager, Sales Management for Dynamics 365, and Sales Management for Salesforce solution templates. Power BI solution templates...

Microsoft's Azure Data Factory allows you to bring data from a rich variety of locations in diverse formats into Azure for advanced analytics and predictive modeling on top of massive amounts of data. Here is a complete list of the Azure Data Factory updates for...

Microsoft has announced a preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6. The step has been taken to get feedback on Apache Spark 2.1. You can try out all the features available in the open source release of Apache Spark 2.1, along with the rich experience of...

Microsoft has announced a new network logging and diagnostic tools for its Azure Cloud Platform – Azure Network Watcher. With Microsoft Azure Network Watcher you can get valuable insights to understand your network performance and health. These capabilities are accessible via Portal, Power Shell, CLI,...

Azure Government cloud computing transforms the ability of government to be responsive, accountable, and agile, while providing the additional security, privacy, and compliance government requires. The Azure Government has been granted authorization for 12 additional customer-facing services to the FedRAMP High P-ATO. All in all,...

Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is now available in Canada Central and Australia Southeast. In totality, the service is now available in the following regions: Australia Southeast, Canada Central, Brazil South, Southeast Asia, North Europe, West Europe, West US, South Central US, North Central US, East...

For customers using the Microsoft's Azure Container Service, Kubernetes management solution is now generally available and ready to use. The feature was announced back in November last year and has been in the preview form until today. For those who are not aware, Kubernetes is an...

If you are building an IOT solution and using Microsoft Azure IoT as a base, then these new features of Azure Stream Analytics are worth spending a minute with. Since, IoT solutions must monitor real-time data coming from devices and take appropriate actions, Microsoft...

With Azure SQL Database Threat Detection, Microsoft aims to provide a new layer of security to your Azure SQL database by detecting abnormal database activities which may indicate a common threat like SQL injection being the most common database attack. This feature will help customers detect...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure backup and Azure Site Recovery services in the United Kingdom. With Azure backup, you can back up (or protect) and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud while as Azure Site Recovery provides services in replicating...

Microsoft has finally introduced a handy and very important feature for Azure SQL Database. If you were looking to running queries against an SQL database hosted on Azure cloud, your wish has just been granted by Microsoft. I was really missing this feature, to be honest. We are excited...