Microsoft Azure Blog

New Azure advancements remove cloud barriers for enterprises at Microsoft Ignite 2017

September 25, 2017

Over the past year, the Microsoft Azure team has explicitly focused on removing all barriers for enterprise customers, so that even the most complex technology and policy requirements are uniquely met with Azure. And, while this opens up new opportunities for enterprise organizations, all customers benefit. Fundamentally, we believe that the success made possible by the cloud must be accessible to every business and every organization – small and large, old and new.

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Your future cloud is hybrid, and so is Azure

Monday, September 25, 2017

When we talk to our customers about their cloud strategies, it comes through loud and clear: They need choice and flexibility in where to run their workloads and applications.

Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform

New advancements in Azure for IT digital transformation

Monday, September 25, 2017

I'm at Ignite this week, where more than 20,000 of us are talking about how we can drive our businesses forward in a climate of constant technology change. We are in a time where technology is one of the core ways companies can better serve customers and differentiate from competitors.

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Team

Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation

Monday, September 25, 2017

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2017, as we engage in conversations about digital transformation with over 25,000 customers and partners, I am pleased to share some of our latest and most exciting innovations in AI development platforms.

Corporate Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Research

Qubole customers now gain insights from Azure Data Lake

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Azure Data Lake provides one of the easiest ways to build an enterprise data lake. With Qubole’s latest release of Qubole Data Service (QDS), their customers can now land data of any size, structured or unstructured, in the data lake for analytics.

Principal Program Manager

Announcing Azure Building Blocks

Thursday, October 5, 2017

The Azure Building Blocks project is a command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. Users author a set of simplified parameters to specify settings for Azure resources, and the command line tool merges these parameters with best practice defaults to produce a set of final parameter files that can be deployed with the Azure Resource Manager templates.

Senior Content Developer

Microsoft announces next Azure OpenDev: October 25, 2017

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

I’m so excited to announce that the next episode of Azure OpenDev, our live technical series featuring open source community leaders, will be streaming live on October 25 at 9:00 AM (Pacific Time). This time we’re featuring DevOps, which increases business agility by delivering business value to customers faster.

Principal Developer Advocate

Manage your Azure VM backups with Azure CLI 2.0 - Preview

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

We are excited to announce that you can now use Azure CLI 2.0 to easily manage your Windows and Linux Azure VM backups. Take advantage of CLI 2.0 features such as smart defaults for the most common operations, tab completion and pipe-able outputs to simply and quickly manage your VM backup and recovery operations.

Program Manager II, Azure Backup