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Improve availability with zone-redundant storage for Azure Disk Storage

September 9, 2021

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Today, we are announcing the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage. ZRS enables you to further improve availability for your critical workloads by providing cloud-first synchronous replication of block storage across three zones in a region.

General Manager, Azure Storage
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Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Today we are announcing the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines. This new feature allows you to deploy and manage the compute capacity required to run Azure VMs separately from the VMs themselves. On-demand capacity reservations will come with a defined SLA (forthcoming at general availability).

Principal Program Manager

4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Intel and Microsoft Azure are working together to help enterprises deploy intelligent IoT technologies and services, including AI’s deep learning abilities, computer vision, and audio or speech capabilities. Adding these capabilities enables solutions to solve more business challenges, uniting two or more—adding both computer vision and AI, for example greatly expands the potential uses for IoT solutions.

Director, Channel Marketing

Improve availability with zone-redundant storage for Azure Disk Storage

Thursday, September 9, 2021

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Today, we are announcing the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage. ZRS enables you to further improve availability for your critical workloads by providing cloud-first synchronous replication of block storage across three zones in a region.

General Manager, Azure Storage

4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Intel and Microsoft Azure are working together to help enterprises deploy intelligent IoT technologies and services, including AI’s deep learning abilities, computer vision, and audio or speech capabilities. Adding these capabilities enables solutions to solve more business challenges, uniting two or more—adding both computer vision and AI, for example greatly expands the potential uses for IoT solutions.

Director, Channel Marketing

Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Today, we are announcing the integration of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform in Azure Spring Cloud. Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers.

Principal PM Architect, Java on Azure

Announcing Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise—fully managed VMware Tanzu components and advanced configurability for Spring Boot apps

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is a managed service for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. We’ve collaborated with VMware to combine the cloud platform expertise of Microsoft with the innovation of the VMware Tanzu portfolio. Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise adds commercial Tanzu components built specifically to address enterprise requirements around configuration, integration, flexibility, and support.

Corporate Vice President, Developer Division

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – August 2021

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

As August comes to a close, you'll find new download options available from the cost analysis preview and quick access to common subscription and resource group operations in Configuration. You'll also see the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret and improved migration and modernization tools and programs as well as the 14 new cost saving options and 3 documentation updates. Lots of great stuff!

Program Manager, Azure Cost Management

5 reasons to attend the Azure data governance digital event

Monday, August 30, 2021

Data is one of your most strategic assets. But to take full advantage of it, you need to know what data you have, where it came from, and what regulatory requirements affect it. Azure Purview is that solution. To show you the latest capabilities of Azure Purview—and share some exciting product announcements—my team will be hosting an Azure data governance digital event on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, from 9:00 AM–10:00 AM Pacific Time.

Product Marketing Manager, Azure Purview

Optimize your private mobile network and accelerate innovation with hyperscale cloud

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

We’ve outlined how Azure private MEC enables operators and systems integrators to deliver private cellular, enterprise workloads, and edge compute services with ease, offering a robust partner network while combining computing, networking, and services on hardware located at the edge. In this article, we outline how bringing the power of hyperscale cloud to operator-enabled private mobile networks can lower capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx), accelerate the pace of innovation, and open up new and exciting revenue opportunities.

Worldwide Marketing Leader

Genomics testing on the ISS with HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 and Azure

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Microsoft News published a story about the use of Azure to compliment Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Spaceborne Computer-2 on the International Space Station (ISS). The project was designed to overcome the limited bandwidth between ISS and Earth by validating the benefits of a computational workflow that spans edge and cloud. The Azure Space team delivered the entire experiment in just three days.

Vice President, Azure Developer Experience

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