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Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft. It gave Skype everything needed for its new People Core Service (PCS), including turnkey global distribution and elastic scaling of throughput and storage, making it an ideal foundation for distributed apps like Skype that require extremely low latency at global scale. Continue reading How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2→

This article was written by Rie Moriguchi, Microsoft Community Program Manager – Japan.  Microsoft provides localized technical documentation on various Microsoft services and products, and localized open source products for developers around the world. To make these localized materials better suited and available for local developers we decided to put on a unique community localization… Continue reading Around the World with MVPs: Microsoft Three Musketeers!→

Founded in 2003, Skype has grown to become one of the world’s premier communication services, making it simple to share experiences with others wherever they are. Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2010, Skype has grown to more than four billion total users, more than 300 million monthly active users, and more than 40 million concurrent users. Continue reading How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1→

Podobně jako minulé roky budou i letos, v sobotu 27.4.2019, probíhat celosvětové technické komunitní akce v rámci Global Azure Bootcamp. Akce nejsou pořádané Microsoftem, je to čistě komunitní záležitost, včetně technického programu. V ČR budou letos souběžně ve dvou místech: Praha: https://www.azurebootcamp.cz/ 09:00-18:15, Microsoft ČR, Vyskočilova, Praha 4 Brno: https://www.kentico.com/global-azure-bootcamp-2019 14:00-19:00, Kentico software,  Nové sady 25, Brno střed   Obsah… Continue reading Global Azure Bootcamp, Praha, Brno, 27.4.2019→

Most apps get delivered by a team. When your team delivers the app through virtual machine (VMs), it is important to coordinate efforts. Born in the cloud to serve teams from all over the world, Azure and Azure Stack have some handy capabilities to help you coordinate VM operations across your team. Continue reading Azure Stack IaaS – part seven→

Whether you’re just starting off in tech, building, managing, or deploying apps, gathering and analyzing data, or solving global issues —anyone can benefit from using cloud technology. Below we’ve gathered five cool examples of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) to showcase how you can be a catalyst for real change. Continue reading Azure AI does that?→

Azure Security Center discovered a new cryptocurrency mining operation on Azure customer resources. Continue reading Azure Security Center exposes crypto miner campaign→

In June 2018, we released the App Service Migration Assessment Tool. The Assessment Tool was designed to help customers quickly and easily assess whether a site could be moved to Azure App Service by scanning an externally accessible (HTTP) endpoint. Continue reading Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications→