Microsoft and Code.org announce the CS Discoveries Curriculum delivered in a OneNote Class Notebook

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New to Azure? Follow these easy steps to get started

Today, many organizations are leveraging digital transformation to deliver their applications and services in the cloud. At the recent Build 2019 conference, Microsoft Azure Quickstart Center was generally available and received positive feedback from customers.

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Microsoft positioned as a leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Database-as-a-service

Were excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Database-as-a-service, Q2 2019. This decision is based on their evaluation of Azure relational and non-

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Gartner names Microsoft a leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS

Personal computers revolutionized the way work was done. New software unlocked unprecedented levels of productivity, and for a time, business flourished. As the personal computer exploded in popularity, more and more software was created. For the individual, this was a golden age. For the enterprise, this was also a golden age… with an asterisk.

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Azure HC-series Virtual Machines crosses 20,000 cores for HPC workloads

Azure HC-series Virtual Machines are now generally available in the West US 2 and East US regions. HC-series virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for the most at-scale, computationally intensive HPC applications. For this class of workload, HC-series VMs are the most performant, scalable, and price-performant ever launched on Azure or elsewhere on the public cloud.

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