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To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. Continue reading GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system Continue reading Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Azure Percept DK and support from associated Azure services will be retired on March 30th, 2023. Continue reading Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement
Microsoft constantly delivers innovation and improves Microsoft 365 services to help every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Changes are rapid and this is the reality of any cloud service. While committed to enhancing the end… Continue reading Simplifying change management of Microsoft 365
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making, where an agent interacts with a stochastic environment to perform a task. For example, a navigating robot is expected to […]
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We are excited to announce that support for UTF-8 and Japanese collations in Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL pools is now generally available!
What is UTF-8?
UTF-8 allows storing of multilingual characters in data types CHAR and VARCHAR. For U… Continue reading UTF-8 and Japanese collations support for Dedicated SQL pools is now GA!
As more and more industries are digitizing their operations, there is a need for simulation to enable these digital transformations. Simulation helps industries meet their business and operations goals by changing the environment variables and predicti… Continue reading Enable simulation scenarios by ingesting large graphs in Azure Digital Twins through the Jobs API
Azure HPC OnDemand Platform is a solution accelerator to deploy a complete HPC cluster solution in Azure. Simply put, there are lots of resources that need to deployed and properly configured to create a working HPC cluster in Azure. If the resour… Continue reading Azure HPC OnDemand Platform: Visualizing Data with ParaView