Mike Neil posts

Throughout the Technical Previews, we’ve seen tremendous customer and partner excitement around Microsoft Azure Stack.

Over the past few months, we’ve consistently heard from customers and service providers that they see tremendous business value in the hybrid capabilities Azure and Azure Stack can uniquely deliver. Today, I’d like to share more information about how Azure Stack will be delivered.

Organizations are rapidly turning to the cloud to increase business agility and drive faster innovation. Microsoft believes enterprises have to approach cloud as a model – not a place. To translate this model into reality, customers need a consistent cloud platform that spans hybrid environments.

As the cloud evolves, containers are emerging as an attractive way for developers to quickly and efficiently build and deploy these applications at the speed of business.

Data, combined with incredible computing power, is changing the way we do business every day, and customers from all industries – from science and engineering, to media and finance – are realizing…

As part of our ongoing commitment to security we are making a change to our SSL certificate chain that will require a small number of customers to take action before April 15th, 2013.

At 12:29 PM PST on February 22nd, 2013 there was a service interruption in all regions that affected customers who were accessing Windows Azure Storage Blobs, Tables and Queues using HTTPS.

Introduction On December 28th, 2012 there was a service interruption that affected 1.8% of the Windows Azure Storage accounts.

As we’ve talked about in the past, combining infrastructure and platform services provides flexibility to architect, develop, and deploy your applications and IT solutions in a way that works…

On July 26 Windows Azure’s compute service hosted within one cluster in our West Europe sub-region experienced external connectivity loss to the Internet and other parts of Windows Azure.