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.
Dr. McCaffrey walks you through how to use the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, a new front-end for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, to get a neural prediction system up and running.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/18/2014