Business decision makers

Preparing for the unexpected is part of every IT professional’s and developer’s job. Although rare, service issues like outages and planned maintenance do occur.

We recently released Azure Application Gateway V2 or Autoscaling version (SKU) and Web Application Firewall (WAF). These SKUs are Standard_v2 and WAF_v2 respectively and are fully supported with a 99.95% SLA.

Without the right tools and approach, cloud optimization can be a time-consuming and difficult process. There is an ever growing list of best practices to follow, and it’s constantly in flux as your cloud workloads evolve.

For businesses today, data is indispensable. Innovative ideas in manufacturing, health care, transportation, and financial industries are often the result of capturing and correlating data from multiple sources.

Elasticity means services can expand and contract on demand. This means Microsoft Azure customers who are on a pay-as-you-go plan will reap the most benefit out of Azure services.

Azure Cost Management helps you understand how and where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs, empowering you to do more with less.

Azure Deployment Manager is a new set of features for Azure Resource Manager that greatly expands your deployment capabilities.

Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open source streaming platforms today. However, deploying and running Kafka remains a challenge for most.

Innovation at scale is a common challenge facing large organizations. A key contributor to the challenge is the complexity in coordinating the sheer number of apps and environments.

It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.

oday, I’m excited to share our ability to support US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level FedRAMP services with the extension of FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) to all of our Azure public regions in the United States.

We are excited to announce the General Availability of the autoscale feature for Azure HDInsight. This feature enables enterprises to become more productive and cost-efficient by automatically scaling clusters up or down based on the load or a customized schedule.