IT decision makers

You know what they say: “Time is money.” For many workloads in the capital markets space, time accuracy is money.

At Ignite we announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for VMs, a new capability that provides an in-depth view of VM health, performance trends, and dependencies.

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the new Azure HDInsight Management SDK. This preview SDK brings support for new languages and can be used to easily manage your HDInsight clusters.

Earlier this year, we released the public preview of Azure Serial Console for Virtual Machines (VMs).

In today’s world of modern applications, metrics play a key role in helping you understand how your apps, services, and the infrastructure they run on, are performing. They can help you detect, investigate, and diagnose issues when they crop up.

Today I am excited to announce the private preview of Azure VM Image Builder, a service which allows users to have an image building pipeline in Azure.

We are excited to preview a set of Azure Resource Manager Application Program Interfaces (ARM APIs) to view cost and usage information in the context of a management group for Enterprise Customers.

In my recent conversations with customers, they have shared the security challenges they are facing on-premises. These challenges include recruiting and retaining security experts, quickly responding to an increasing number of threats, and ensuring that their security policies are meeting their compliance requirements.

How complex are your services? Do you have tens of resources split over a bunch of resource groups and regions? Hundreds? Thousands?

We are encouraged by the response to the introduction of Managed Disks. Since the announcement, we’ve seen many customers take advantage of this new way to manage persistent storage for their Virtual Machines.

In May 2018, we launched the limited preview of Shared Image Gallery. We observed very encouraging adoption levels and we have further improved Shared Image Gallery based on your feedback.

Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack can build and run production Java applications using Azul Systems Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK without incurring additional support costs.