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

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

#OSSFridays Skype meetup is back!

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Join us for Open Source Fridays meetup via Skype with the Azure Global Black belts (GBBs). This online meet-up style Skype session will cover various Open Source and Linux solutions in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. We will highlight various ways Microsoft has embraced open source and the contributions back into OSS.

C+E Azure Architect, Global black belt

Achieve better savings with best-in-class cost management on Azure

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Last week at Ignite, our customers and partners like UPS, HSBC, Ernest & Young, and more shared incredible stories of how they are transforming their IT and businesses with Azure – revamping dev/test processes, modernizing applications, running mission critical workloads such as SAP, and taking their cloud investments to the next level with machine learning and AI...

General Manager, Microsoft Azure