Azure

A new Power BI component is now available for easier integration with React, a popular open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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NFS 3.0 protocol support for Azure Blob storage is now in preview. Azure Blob storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with crucial object storage economics.
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Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is now available in query explorer.
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We are upgrading the virtualization technology through which customer VMs can access our high-bandwidth, low-latency InfiniBand network on our RDMA-enabled VM Sizes. By enabling SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization), customers will be able to use any MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementation or InfiniBand verb set, greatly increasing ability and options for leveraging Infiniband for their workloads
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View the full schedule, by region, for updates coming to NCv3 Virtual machines.
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Azure Data Explorer 1-click now supports mapping transformations as part of the schema definition with the intuitive UX.
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The default maximum degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) option in Azure SQL Database is changing from 0 to 8, improving workload performance and optimizing resource utilization.
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The latest Azure Site Recovery updates provide fixes and download links for Site Recovery components.
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Use the new automatic resource allocation feature to define a data connection from any Azure Storage to Azure Data Explorer database.
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A new online course that offers a comprehensive overview of data analytics with Azure Data Explorer is now available for free.
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Azure Stream Analytics, a real-time analytics service that is designed for mission-critical workloads, is now available in the US Gov Arizona region.
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New memory optimized and compute optimized hardware options are now generally available in Azure SQL Database.
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus) reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future Hyperscale (Citus) server groups. 
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Machine Learning Services, a feature of Azure SQL Managed Instance, provides in-database support for R and Python scripts (in limited preview).
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M-series, a new memory-optimized hardware option, and Fsv2-series, a new compute-optimized hardware option, are now generally available in Azure SQL Database.
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Azure Time Series Insights Gen2, our pay-as-you-go IoT Analytics offering, is now generally available and features a number of new capabilities that are powerful, yet simple to use:
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URL rewrite and wildcard host names in listener for Azure Application Gateway are now available in preview. Use URL rewrite to rewrite the host name, path, and query string of the request URL. Use the wildcard listener capability add wildcard characters and configure up to five host names per listener.
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Azure ultra disks are now available in the US Gov Arizona region.
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Today, SAP and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership to enable customers to design and operate intelligent digital supply chain and industry 4.0 solutions in the cloud and at the edge.
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Several new capabilities for Azure Virtual WAN are now in preview—including the option to install network virtual appliances directly into a virtual WAN hub as an option for SD-WAN connectivity.
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