Category Azure News

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now powered by Instant Data Movement (IDM) technology that allows for extremely efficient movement between data warehouse compute nodes. At the heart of every distributed database system is the need to align two or more tables that are partitioned on a different key to produce a final or intermediate result set. IDM accelerates this movement, resulting in faster query performance.  Azure SQL Data Warehouse customers will now enjoy at least two times faster query performance from their workloads,  making this the fastest data warehouse in the cloud. 

Learn more. 

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Now available – SQL Data Warehouse now powered by instant data movement

While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. To help you address your security challenges, Azure Security Center for Azure Government is now available in preview. Security Center delivers unified security management for hybrid cloud workloads, with continuous monitoring as well as security assessments and recommendations. Coupled with advanced threat protection to identify and mitigate risk and reduce exposure, this enables government cloud security teams to better protect their data, networks, and IT infrastructure from cyberattacks. 

Learn more.  

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: In preview – Azure Security Center Preview now available in Azure Government

Azure Virtual WAN is a networking service providing optimized and automated branch-to-branch connectivity through Azure. Virtual WAN allows you to connect your branches to each other and to Azure, centralizing your network and security needs with virtual appliances such as firewalls and Azure network and security services. 

Visit the documentation for guidance on how to join the managed preview.

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: In preview – Azure Virtual WAN

Azure Firewall is a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. Centrally create, enforce, and log application and network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks. Azure Firewall uses a static public IP address for your virtual network resources allowing outside firewalls to identify traffic originating from your virtual network. The service is fully integrated with Azure Monitor for logging and analytics.

Learn more about Azure Firewall.

Read the Azure Firewall Preview documentation.

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: In preview – Azure Firewall

The newly added Security tab provides a quick view into the security posture of your subscription, enabling you to discover and assess the security of your resources, and to identify and mitigate risks. The built-in dashboard provides instant insights into security alerts and vulnerabilities that require attention. 

Learn more about Azure Security Center.

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Now available – Azure Security Center is now integrated into the subscription experience

Azure Data Box Disk provides a simple, secure, SSD disk-based offering for offline data transfer to Azure. Customers that have data transfer requirements but lack the onsite technical expertise required for more robust data transfer offerings can use the Data Box Disk service to transport as much as 40 TB of data into Azure by simply connecting the disks to a computer via USB or SATA and using drag-and-drop or robocopy commands for data transfer. 

Data Box Disk Preview is available in the EU and US. The preview is currently free. 

Customers and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners are invited to sign up for the Data Box Preview on the same portal as Data Box Preview.

Partners—please sign up on our partner portal. 

Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: In preview – Announcing the public pr...