Using Azure Resource Manager in Azure Automation RunbooksDue to the many exciting capabilities of Azure Resource Manager (ARM), many customers are asking how they can take advantage of ARM PowerShell cmdlets within Azure Automation runbooks. Currently, the Azure (Service Management) PowerShell cmdlets and the ARM PowerShell cmdlets do not work side by side within an Azure Automation account. For this reason, the… Read More
How to use Azure Search with D3.js to Build Interactive Data VisualizationsHelping users visualize data can have a big impact on improving the overall user experience of a web or mobile application. With Azure Search, a primary goal is to help developers build amazing search experiences, but if your users are not able to visualize the results returned, then much of this experience can be lost.Today,… Read More
Managing SSH-Enabled Linux Hosts with Azure AutomationOur team is frequently asked about Linux support by customers interested in unifying their workloads by using Azure Automation to manage not only Windows hosts, but Linux hosts as well. Today, we are pleased to announce our first steps into supporting this functionality. If you’ve used Azure Automation recently, you may have noticed a new… Read More
AWS Week in Review – July 6, 2015Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, July 6 The AWS PHP Developer Blog showed you how to Reduce Composer Issues on Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector. The CloudBees Blog talked about Continuous Delivery… Read More
AWS Device Farm – Test Mobile Apps on Real DevicesAlthough the phrase “write once, test everywhere” was coined to describe another technology, I believe that it also applies to mobile applications. The wide variety of carriers, manufacturers, models, operating systems (including versions, patches, and proprietary extensions), screen sizes, input devices, connectivity options, device settings, and permission settings combine to create a test matrix that… Read More
Announcing Cortana Analytics Suite and New Partner Investments at WPC 2015Today at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando we made a number of significant technology and program announcements to help our customers capitalize on the incredible opportunities provided by big data, advanced analytics and cloud computing. Firstly, data is now the key strategic business asset. Every device, every customer, every activity – everything… Read More
Building Linux-Based Solutions on AzureOn July 4th the US celebrated Independence from my home country. On that same day I celebrated the second anniversary of my family’s arrival in the US as I prepared to join one of the many open source teams in Microsoft. An upcoming Microsoft Virtual Academy course focusing on the running of Linux workloads on Azure will highlight some of the… Read More
Building Linux-Based Solutions on AzureOn July 4th the US celebrated Independence from my home country. On that same day I celebrated the second anniversary of my family’s arrival in the US as I prepared to join one of the many open source teams in Microsoft. An upcoming Microsoft Virtual Academy course focusing on the running of Linux workloads on Azure will highlight some of the… Read More
Microsoft delivers interactive analytics on Big Data with the release of Spark for Azure HDInsightToday, we are pleased to announce the public preview availability of Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight. Apache Spark is an open source project in the Apache ecosystem that has been gaining in popularity. This post will give you the ins and outs of this new offering. What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is an open… Read More
Announcing the GA of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and Physical Machines to Azure using ASRI’m excited to announce the GA of an important functionality in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that lets you enable replication and protection of your VMware workloads and physical machines to Azure. ASR, with its ability to protect Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines and physical machines, is a unified solution for workload-aware disaster recovery and protection… Read More