Zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage now generally available

Now generally available in West Europe, North Europe, West US 2, and France Central, Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage protects disks from zonal failures which may occur due to natural disasters or hardware issues. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Apache Spark 3.1 for Azure Synapse Analytics now generally available

The latest version of the open-source Apache Spark is now available in Azure Synapse Analytics Apache Spark pools. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 expected on Sept 22

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Screen Capture Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available

This new Azure Virtual Desktop feature prevents sensitive information from being captured in screen captures and screen shares. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines now in public preview

On-demand capacity reservations, now in public preview, enable you to reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or Availability Zone for any length of time. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode

This release provides improved quality and simplified Azure customer experience, giving you the opportunity to combine the functionality of Availability Sets and Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure App Service support for Availability Zones reaches general availability

This new feature provides high availability for web applications to enhance business continuity and support disaster recovery strategies. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1

Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most secure and highly performant version of SMB. With SMB 3.1.1 support for Azure Files, you now can require AES-256-GCM for Windows 10, version 21H1 and newer clients. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available

Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables you to improve the IO performance of your SMB client 2-4x, increasing performance and decreasing total cost of ownership. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers

Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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