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New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space

December 9, 2021

The power of extracting and leveraging data collected from space can transform entire industries and create new paradigms. Azure Space, through partnerships, space data, our collaboration tools, and Microsoft services and capabilities, unlock powerful possibilities for customers.

Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure
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Geospatial imagery unlocks new cloud computing scenarios on Azure

Thursday, December 9, 2021

In the year since Azure Space was announced, Microsoft has focused on extending its Azure Space ecosystem by partnering with industry leaders in the space community to empower customers and partners to achieve more. Today, Microsoft is expanding on its mission to make Azure Space the platform and ecosystem of choice for the space community through a new partnership with Airbus and the general availability of their premium satellite imagery and elevation data in Microsoft’s Azure Maps.

Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

New resources and tools to enable product leaders to implement AI responsibly

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

As AI becomes more deeply embedded in our everyday lives, it is incumbent upon all of us to be thoughtful and responsible in how we apply it to benefit people and society. Join our digital event, Put Responsible AI into Practice, to learn more about these updates, including new guidelines for product leaders and a Responsible AI dashboard for data scientists and developers.

Corporate Vice President of Industry, Apps, and Data Marketing at Microsoft

Introducing Azure Load Testing: Optimize app performance at scale

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Today, we are announcing the preview of Azure Load Testing, a fully managed Azure service that enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load with custom Apache JMeter scripts and gain actionable insights to catch and fix performance bottlenecks at scale.

Partner Director of Product, Azure Dev Tools

Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise iPaaS, 2021

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

We are thrilled to share that Microsoft has been named as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS), 2021. Azure Integration Services helps customers connect applications, data, and services on-premises and in the cloud, helping enterprises create new revenue opportunities with an API-driven partner and developer ecosystem and boost productivity with secure and automated workflows.

Director, Product Marketing, Azure

Geospatial imagery unlocks new cloud computing scenarios on Azure

Thursday, December 9, 2021

In the year since Azure Space was announced, Microsoft has focused on extending its Azure Space ecosystem by partnering with industry leaders in the space community to empower customers and partners to achieve more. Today, Microsoft is expanding on its mission to make Azure Space the platform and ecosystem of choice for the space community through a new partnership with Airbus and the general availability of their premium satellite imagery and elevation data in Microsoft’s Azure Maps.

Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Expand hybrid management tools with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Organizations are looking to accelerate innovation through improved IT operations, better platform resiliency, and a unified hybrid cloud control plane. For Red Hat and Azure customers, we’re now expanding the set of Red Hat management tools that run on Azure with the launch of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure.

Director, Partner Development

New resources and tools to enable product leaders to implement AI responsibly

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

As AI becomes more deeply embedded in our everyday lives, it is incumbent upon all of us to be thoughtful and responsible in how we apply it to benefit people and society. Join our digital event, Put Responsible AI into Practice, to learn more about these updates, including new guidelines for product leaders and a Responsible AI dashboard for data scientists and developers.

Corporate Vice President of Industry, Apps, and Data Marketing at Microsoft

4 reasons to attend the Put Responsible AI into Practice Azure digital event

Thursday, December 2, 2021

AI is transforming business and the world. However, AI models learn from the data. Biases that exist in society will exist in the models. Human judgment must be the overriding factor, ensuring that AI models benefit and are inclusive of everyone. Equally important, AI must inspire trust in customers that their data is being used appropriately. These are key reasons that responsible approaches to AI are so critical, and you can learn how to put responsible AI into practice.

Corporate Vice President, AI Platform

5 reasons Azure Databricks is best for Hadoop workloads

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Due to the complexity, high cost of operations, and unscalable infrastructure, on-premises Hadoop platforms have often not delivered on their initial promises to impact business value. As a result, many enterprises are now seeking to modernize their Hadoop platforms to cloud data platforms.

Principal Group Product Manager, Azure Databricks

SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation

Monday, November 29, 2021

SONiC, as an open-source operating system for network devices, has been growing rapidly in the last five years. We have been working with many partners on innovations extending SONiC to new scenarios in the past year. Let’s look at what was showcased in the OCP Global Summit this month, and the opportunities SONiC enables.

Principal Program Manager, Azure Network

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