Enhance your data visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Ye Gu, Principal Program Manager. Organizations are transforming their digital environments to increase agility and to operate more efficiently. We see this transformation in how customers migrate to the cloud and adopt cloud-native technologies and practices in their own environments. As their digital estates become increasingly more complex and critical…

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview

By Dustin Ward

When we launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019, we set out to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve had the opportunity to work with many customers to help them adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan…

Elastic and Microsoft Azure: Unified Observability for Spring Boot applications

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other…

Introducing Azure Load Testing: Optimize app performance at scale

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the preview of Azure Load Testing. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed Azure service that enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load with custom Apache JMeter scripts and gain actionable insights to catch and fix performance bottlenecks at scale. Application performance and resiliency are more important than ever before.…

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps—introducing Gandalf

By Dustin Ward

“Changes to Azure services and the Azure platform itself are both inevitable and beneficial, to ensure continuous delivery of updates, new features, and security enhancements. However, change is also a primary cause of service regressions that can contribute towards reliability issues—for hyperscale cloud providers, indeed for any IT service provider. As such, it is critical…

Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights

By Dustin Ward

Successful digital transformation requires eliminating unnecessary barriers. To that end, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics in November 2019, where we removed the barriers between data warehousing and big data analytics. And in 2020, we took this a step further and announced Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB to break down the barriers that had…