Mark Brown

Principal PM Manager, Azure Cosmos DB

Mark is a Principal Program Manager on the Azure Cosmos DB team and is focused on making sure Azure Cosmos DB is the most developer friendly NoSQL database in the cloud. Mark is passionate about web development, cloud computing and growing the developer community around Azure and Cosmos DB.

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Announcing the New Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool

March 23rd, 2023
Today we're excited to introduce a brand new Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool. You can find the new tool at https://github.com/AzureCosmosDB/data-migration-desktop-tool. Read more about it below and how to use it.   Some History The old Data Migration Tool (or DMT as it was known) was originally created in 2015 and had ...

Build Intelligent Applications using ChatGPT & Azure Cosmos DB

March 22nd, 2023
"Cosmos DB is the go-to database powering the world’s most demanding workloads at any scale. OpenAI relies on Cosmos DB to dynamically scale their ChatGPT service – one of the fastest-growing consumer apps ever – enabling high reliability and low maintenance." - Satya Nadella, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer  ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022 Review – Episode 45

June 13th, 2022
Welcome back!  We hope you enjoyed all the content and updates from the 2022 edition of Microsoft Build. Developers were able to watch and virtually attend over 500 different live sessions covering topics ranging from Java, Kubernetes, and Azure Cosmos DB, and more! Check out the video below for the full recap on the new and exciting features...

Azure Cosmos DB Live TV Episode 43 – Data Modeling for the Relational Mind

May 18th, 2022
Azure Cosmos DB Live TV returns with episode 43, where Principal Program Manager, Mark Brown and Microsoft MVP Sarah Dutkiewicz showcase how the relational mind can into the nonrelational side by looking at the differences in data modeling. They will walk through a common scenario and how relational modeling differs from modeling for document ...

Register now for Azure Cosmos DB Conf on April 19 – 20

April 6th, 2022
Azure Cosmos DB Conf, our free, virtual developer event, returns April 19-20.  The event will include three, 3-hour live streams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Australia, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Each live stream will feature its own unique, region-specific content that will be created and delivered by local members of the ...

Financial services firm Jack Henry finds a reliable, fast database in Azure Cosmos DB

March 9th, 2022
Read about how Jack Henry has a found a scalable, reliable database in Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022 – Call for Papers

January 12th, 2022
We are very excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB Conf is returning, April 19-20, 2022. Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free, 24-hour virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. This is our second Azure Cosmos DB Conf. Sessions will be a combination of Microsoft and community delivered. The event will ...

Announcing: Azure Cosmos DB Conf, a free online developer event

February 19th, 2021
We are really excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB Conf, April 20-21, 2021. This is our very first virtual conference dedicated to Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft's fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale. This free event is being organized in collaboration with the Azure Cosmos DB community, and sessions will be delivered by community ...

Azure Cosmos DB wrap-up: May 2020 BUILD Announcements

May 21st, 2020
Read about all of the amazing announcements we made at Microsoft BUILD 2020 including Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB, autoscale GA, encryption, new Jupyter Notebook features, serverless, new change feed and much more!

Welcome to the Azure Cosmos DB Blog!

October 29th, 2019
Welcome to the new Azure Cosmos DB Team blog. In this blog our team will work hard to provide you with lots of news and information for Azure Cosmos DB. You can come here to get the last news and updates directly from the product team as it happens and also through monthly updates. We will also provide deep technical insights that come ...