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[In preview] Private Preview: New storage optimized Lsv4 and Lasv4 Azure VM series
The Lsv4-series VMs, based on the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor (Emerald Rapids), and Lasv4-series VMs, based on the...
[Launched] Generally Available: New storage optimized Laosv4 Azure VM series
The Laosv4 series storage optimized VMs, based on the 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Genoa), are now generally available...
[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure Available from New Azure for U.S. Government Secret Cloud Region in the US
A new Azure for U.S. Government Secret cloud region is now generally available. With multiple geographically separate...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backup for Azure Data Lake Storage for comprehensive data protection
Azure Backup now supports transferring your Azure Data Lake Storage backups to the vault. A vault stores backups and...
6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right now
WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or...
The programming language wars
Microsoft recently decided to rewrite the TypeScript tool chain using Go. This has caused a stir as folks wonder why...
JRuby 10 brings faster startup times
JRuby 10, the latest release of the Ruby language variant built atop the JVM, has arrived, bringing startup time...
[Launched] Generally Available: Route-maps for Azure Virtual WAN
Route-maps is a feature that gives you the ability to control route advertisements and routing for Virtual WAN virtual...
OpenAI GPT-4.1 models promise improved coding and instruction following
OpenAI has announced a new family of models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which it says outperforms GPT-4o...
[Launched] Generally Available: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage
Azure Disk Storage now offers the feature called Performance Plus in GA, which enhances the IOPS and throughput...
[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Indonesia
The first cloud region in Indonesia is now available with Azure Availability Zones and provides organizations across...
Measuring success in dataops, data governance, and data security
Back in 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby stated that data was the new oil. Like oil, data isn’t useful in its...
Google’s bold step toward hybrid AI integration
News stories about cloud services and artificial intelligence are generally predictable. Another generative AI model,...
Microsoft .NET Aspire adds resource graph, publishers
Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed...
[Launched] Generally Available: Support for Managed Identity based authentication flows in Azure Load Testing
Azure Load Testing now supports simulating managed identity based authentication flows in load tests. As you...
Retirement: Support for Python 3.9 ends on October 31, 2025 – upgrade your Azure Functions apps to Python 3.11
In alignment with the end of community support, on October 31, 2025, support for Python 3.9 in Azure Functions will...
[In preview] Public Preview: Managed Identity for Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Public Preview
Azure Red Hat OpenShift introduces managed identity and workload identity in public preview as a secure alternative to...
How pet projects fuel innovation and careers in tech
Call them pet projects, side projects, or hobby projects, projects pursued outside of one’s regular business activity...
7 reasons low-code and no-code tools fail to deliver
The potential benefits of low-code and no-code development tools include faster application development, lower...
DeepSeek’s open source movement
DeepSeek may have originated in China, but it stopped being Chinese the minute it was released on Hugging Face with an...