Recent acquisition to bolster performance and monitoring of applications through Application Insights service that will be included in forthcoming Visual Studio releases.
New identity controls are among the sprint 74 updates being made to the service. Plus, Brian Harry explains the outage from last week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/04/2014
Microsoft Open Technologies has been hard at work making sure its code works with the new Docker Orchestration APIs for spinning up containers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/04/2014
Before launching into his presentation on the intricacies of building Azure-based Web sites, Microsoft's Jeffrey Fritz talks about Tuesday's widespread Azure outage that affected sites throughout most of the northern hemisphere.
Developers no longer need to take a side road through Linux hosts to manage Docker container deployments, now that a Windows CLI can offer a direct path from Windows environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/19/2014
The Visual Studio ALM product manager leads the crowd at Live! 360 through some of the market forces driving cloud development.
Microsoft also releases a bevy of next-generation Visual Studio tools, including Visual Studio Community 2013, which is a full-featured Visual Studio 2013 sans enterprise app development capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/12/2014
Containerized, "bring-your-own security" solution consists of an Apache Tomcat app server with the Waratek Locker.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/06/2014
Here's how to build a Windows Phone application that synchronizes data with Azure Mobile Services, triggered when the device restores its network connection.
- By Nick Randolph
- 11/01/2014
A release candidate that rolls up the most recent features -- work item tracking improvements, addition of the Stakeholder license, Git-based pull requests/code reviews -- bug fixes, and issues is a prelude to the final version expected in the coming months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/17/2014
Python 2.1 for Visual Studio adds templates for working with Python-based Web frameworks from Django, Bottle and Flask.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/16/2014
Microsoft and Docker will work on integrating Docker's open source container technology with Windows Server, with native deployment and management from any Azure cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/15/2014
Incremental improvement to Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend Azure Storage Extension and Windows Azure Mobile Services will ease table navigation pain with Web apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/14/2014
Windows Phone applications can use Azure Active Directory to authenticate users and authorize access to Azure Mobile Services. Nick Randolph walks through the process, step by step.
- By Nick Randolph
- 10/13/2014
Microsoft adds Azure SQL Database auditing improvements, an Azure Websites support extension, and a cloud-based PowerShell in preview.
Splunk announced updated Splunk Enterprise 6.2 and debuts cloud-based Splunk MINT at its user confab in Las Vegas.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/07/2014
Microsoft makes good on commitment to continue improving older solutions, but the support will eventually end for this version as a newer, cloudified version 2014 takes over.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/30/2014
A Cloud Security Alliance survey shows discrepancy between vendors and IT pros when asked about the number of cloud-based apps installed in the workplace.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/26/2014
Xamarin Test Cloud integrates with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to natively automate testing of mobile apps across thousands of devices and OSes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/25/2014
Microsoft adds a new series of VMs to its Azure cloud service for companies running big data, analytics or data-intensive applications.