Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to have been largely non-offensive to Wall Street. In the past year, Microsoft’s stock has gone up more than 40%. In the past two years, it’s […]
View More Microsoft caps off a fine fiscal year seemingly without any major missteps in its last quarterCategory: Azure
Microsoft launches new wide-area networking options for Azure
Microsoft is launching a few new networking features today that will make it easier for businesses to use the company’s Azure cloud to securely connect their own offices and infrastructure using Azure and its global network. The first of these is the Azure Virtual WAN service, which allows businesses to connect their various branches to […]
View More Microsoft launches new wide-area networking options for AzureMicrosoft speeds up its Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with the general availability of its second-generation compute-optimized tier and today it’s doubling its query performance thanks to the launch of its new instant […]
View More Microsoft speeds up its Azure SQL Data WarehouseMicrosoft launches two new Azure regions in China
Microsoft today launched two new Azure regions in China. These new regions, China North 2 in Beijing and China East 2 in Shanghai, are now generally available and will complement the existing two regions Microsoft operates in the country (with the help of its local partner, 21Vianet). As the first international cloud provider in China when […]
View More Microsoft launches two new Azure regions in ChinaMicrosoft Azure will soon offer machines with up to 12 TB of memory
Do you have an application that needs a lot of memory? Maybe as much as 12 terabytes of memory? Well, you’re in luck because Microsoft Azure will soon offer virtual machines with just that much RAM, based on Intel’s Xeon Scalable servers. The company made this announcement in concert with the launch of a number of […]
View More Microsoft Azure will soon offer machines with up to 12 TB of memoryMicrosoft’s new game plan: Powering tech that’s way beyond PCs
There’s no escaping Microsoft, even if you’ve already swore yourself to another company’s ecosystem.
And by the time you notice, it’ll be too late, and Microsoft will have invaded everything. Not just PCs, but iPhones, Android devices, drones, smart …
Microsoft overhauls its conversational AI chatbot tools
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked briefly about a major update to the company’s conversational AI tools. You can now more easily create, test and improve bots that run on Azure or your own servers and work across multiple platforms. “At this conference, we’re launching a hundred plus features for the bot framework so that you […]
View More Microsoft overhauls its conversational AI chatbot toolsMicrosoft Kinect lives on as a new sensor package for Azure
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera for its Xbox consoles was walking dead for the longest time. Last October, it finally passed away peacefully — or so we thought. At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it is bringing back the Kinect brand and its standout time-of-flight camera tech, but not for a game console. […]
View More Microsoft Kinect lives on as a new sensor package for AzureYawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling along
It’s almost becoming boring reporting that the Amazon cloud had a monster quarter. It’s not news at this point, because of course they did. Yesterday, it once again blew away analyst expectations with 49 percent revenue growth for the quarter. Oh ya, and that revenue? Well that was $5.44B for the quarter, a ways above […]
View More Yawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling alongMicrosoft launches 2 new Azure regions in Australia
Microsoft continues its steady pace of opening up new data centers and launching new regions for its Azure cloud. Today, the company announced the launch of two new regions in Australia. To deliver these new regions, Azure Australia Central and Central 2, Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with Canberra Data Centers and unsurprisingly, the regions […]
View More Microsoft launches 2 new Azure regions in AustraliaMicrosoft advances several of its hosted artificial intelligence algorithms
Microsoft Cognitive Services is home to the company’s hosted artificial intelligence algorithms. Today, the company announced advances to several Cognitive Services tools including Microsoft Custom Vision Service, the Face API and Bing Entity Search . Joseph Sirosh, who leads the Microsoft’s cloud AI efforts, defined Microsoft Cognitive Services in a company blog post announcing… Read More
Microsoft’s Azure Event Grid hits general availability
With Event Grid, Microsoft introduced a new Azure service last year that it hopes will become the glue that holds together modern event-driven and distributed applications. Starting today, Event Grid is generally available, with all the SLAs and …
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