We recently announced the general availability of three features for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Instance protection, custom scale-in policy, and terminate notification provide new capabilities to simplify management of virtual machine instances during scale-in. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets are a way to collectively deploy and easily manage a number of virtual machine (VM)…
Enterprises, partners, and IT professionals store business-critical data in Azure Blob Storage. We are committed to providing the best-in-class data protection and recovery capabilities to keep your applications running. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)—providing protection against regional disasters and Account failover—allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover…
Azure Data Lake Storage has a new tier called Premium, offering significantly lower latencies, and cost savings for transaction heavy workloads.
The Azure Log Analytics agent for Windows will begin to use SHA-2 signing exclusively on Aug. 17, 2020. This change requires action only if you’re running the agent on a legacy OS version.
In our day-to-day work, we focus on helping customers advance the security of their digital estate using the native capabilities of Azure. In the process, we frequently find that using Azure to improve an organization’s cybersecurity posture can also help these customers achieve compliance more rapidly. Today, many of our customers in regulated industries are…
This is a guest blog post by Sungoh Park, a big data analyst at Lotte Mart. In their own words, “Lotte Mart, a division of Lotte Co., Ltd., is a leading South Korean retailer that sells a variety of groceries, clothing, toys, electronics, and other goods.” Consumers today have many options for purchasing daily necessities;…