NFS 4.1 support for Azure Files is now in preview Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Azure Files is a distributed cloud file system serving Server Messaging Block (SMB) and REST protocols. Azure Files enables customers to easily lift and shift their legacy workloads to the cloud without any modifications or changes in technology. SMB works on both Windows and UNIX operating systems for most use cases. Because some applications are written for POSIX compliant file systems, our customers wanted to have the same great experience on a fully POSIX compatible NFS file system. Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 protocol is now in preview. Rena Shah Program Manager, Azure Storage

Azure Spring Cloud: a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps is now generally available Wednesday, September 2, 2020 Azure Spring Cloud is a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps, that lets you focus on building the apps that run your business without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Julia Liuson Corporate Vice President, Developer Division

Adding Users to Your SQL Azure Database Monday, June 21, 2010 [This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]When you generate a SQL Azure server via the SQL Azure portal, you generate a user name and password at the same time. This is your administrative… Microsoft Azure

Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation—now in preview Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Learn how you can use cost allocation to split and manage shared costs to help simplify financial reporting within your organization. Ben Shy Senior Program Manager - Azure Cost Management + Billing

Microsoft and TSMC announce Joint Innovation Lab to accelerate silicon design on Azure Monday, August 24, 2020 Right now, every industry and every customer is going through a massive transformation, and cloud computing is often a central enabler of this. Rani Borkar Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure

Preparing for what’s next: Building landing zones for successful cloud migrations Tuesday, September 15, 2020 As businesses look to the cloud to ensure business resiliency and to spur innovation, we continue to see customer migrations to Azure accelerate. Jeremy Winter Partner Director, Azure Management

Our commitment to customers and Microsoft cloud services continuity Saturday, March 21, 2020 With this blog we wanted to share a bit about what we have learned over the last few weeks, resources to help organizations manage through these times, support for critical first responders and emergency organizations, and the criteria we have put in place to manage cloud services capacity to support critical operations. Microsoft Azure

Cross-Database Queries in Azure SQL Database Thursday, October 15, 2015 This blog announces the new cross-database querying capabilities in Azure SQL Database and other improvements to elastic database query. Torsten Grabs Principal Program Manager Lead, Azure SQL Database

Introducing the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework Tuesday, July 21, 2020 As the technology requirements of your business or practice grow and change over time, deploying business-critical applications can increase complexity and overhead substantially. Erin Rifkin Partner Group PM Manager, Developer Relations