Microsoft commercial marketplace updates–May 2019
03 June 2019
New Partner Center tooling, seat-based SaaS billing, and purchases through AppSource.
Brian Levenson
Business Program Manager, Cloud & AI
Developer
Azure IoT Hub message enrichment simplifies downstream processing of your data
30 May 2019
We just released a new capability that enables enriching messages that are egressed from Azure IoT Hub to other services. Azure IoT Hub provides an out-of-the-box capability to automatically deliver messages to different services and is built to handle billions of messages from your IoT devices.
Ashita Rastogi
Program Manager, Azure IoT
Howden: How they built a knowledge mining solution with Azure Search
14 May 2019
Customers across industries including healthcare, legal, media, and manufacturing are looking for new solutions to solve business challenges with AI, including knowledge mining with Azure Search.
Jeremy Chapman
Director, Microsoft Mechanics
Premium files redefine limits for Azure Files
14 May 2019
Today, we are excited to share that Azure Premium Files preview is now available to everyone! Premium files is a new performance tier that unlocks the next level of performance for fully managed file services in the cloud, while also empowering developers and IT pros.
Gunjan Jain
Principal Program Manager, Azure Files
Introducing health integrated rollouts to Azure Deployment Manager
08 May 2019
Carry out safe and reliable deployments to ensure high availability and dramatically reduce service downtime caused by regressions with healthCheck in Azure Deployment Manager.
David Tepper
Principal Program Manager, Cloud and AI
Key improvements to the Azure portal user experience
07 May 2019
We’re constantly working on user experience improvements in the Azure portal. Our goal is to offer you a productive and easy-to-use platform so you can build, manage, and monitor your service from a single pane of glass.
Leon Welicki
Partner Group Program Manager, Azure portal
Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more
07 May 2019
Web applications continue to be at the center of business-critical applications for many Azure App Service customers, whether it’s helping migrate existing applications into the cloud or innovate by adding new functionality to delight end-users.
Stefan Schackow
Principal Program Manager, App Platform, Microsoft Azure
Advancing the developer experience for serverless apps with Azure Functions
07 May 2019
Azure Functions constantly innovates so that you can achieve more with serverless applications, enabling developers to overcome common serverless challenges through a productive, event-driven programming model.
Eduardo Laureano
Principal PM Manager, Azure Functions
Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier
06 May 2019
Offering serverless Kubernetes has been key part of our vision to make Kubernetes simpler for everyone – by providing an end-to-end experience optimized for developer productivity on top of an enterprise-grade platform with hardened security and layers of isolation. We are working closely with the community on open source projects that make Kubernetes easier for everyone, wherever they run it.
Brendan Burns
Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Azure
Intelligent edge innovation across data, IoT, and mixed reality
02 May 2019
We are at an incredibly exciting technology inflection point. The virtually limitless computing power of the cloud, combined with increasingly connected and perceptive devices at the edge of the network, create possibilities we could only have dreamed of just a few years ago – possibilities made up of millions of connected devices, infinite data, and the ability to create truly immersive multi-sense, multidevice experiences.
Julia White
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure