Cloud Computing

Learn how Microsoft has recently started rolling out a preview of improved networking performance for Azure virtual machines.

Aidan Finn walks you through the second technical preview release of Azure Stack, Microsoft’s on-premises version of Azure, that was released at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith appeared in Dublin this morning at the beginning of a multi-city trip to woo customers in Europe. And in a ceremonial beginning to this trip, the two announced a major new cloud infrastructure investment in Europe and … a new book.

Because I already miss Atlanta, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Salesforce and Microsoft, Microsoft’s new AI-focused reorganization, Google’s new enterprise cloud push, Xbox strategy changes, China accuses Samsung of discrimination in Samsung Note 7 recall, and a ton of headline riffs.

Aidan Finn walks you through how to deploy an Azure Log Analytics workspace so that you can prepare the foundation of monitoring machines and services both on-premises, in (any) the cloud, and in Azure.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy an Azure Logs Analytics, otherwise known as Operations Management Suite (OMS), agent to a Windows Server machine that is running outside of Azure.

Learn how to set up billing alerts in Azure to keep your cloud expenses in check.

Microsoft updates TypeScript language to 2.0. It’s an open-source superset of JavaScript, but said to be easier to use, more productive, create more reliable code, and compile down to standard JavaScript. Version 2.0 adds features such as non-nullable types and expanded control flow analysis. Plus tagged unions, the never type, this types for functions, and of course glob support…

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how Shared Access Signatures (SAS) can be used to grant access to objects in storage without revealing the storage account key.

Companies that can effectively use their data assets have a significant advantage over their competitors; Microsoft commissioned a new study that highlights the true value of digging in deep to your databases.