IT decision makers

Conversational systems are rapidly becoming a key component of solutions such as virtual assistants, customer care, and the Internet of Things.

We recently released a detailed set of GxP qualification guidelines for our Azure customers.

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of backup for Azure file shares. Azure Files is a cloud-first file share solution with support for industry standard SMB protocol.

We are pleased to announce that Azure Active Directory is integrated with Spring Security to secure your Java web applications.

Last week in Azure, the Azure SDK for GA became generally available, Microsoft Build registration opened, we announced Microsoft Startups with up to $120,000 in free Azure credits, and more.

We are excited to share the general availability of ExpressRoute monitoring with Network Performance Monitor (NPM).

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of application consistent backup of Linux VMs running in Azure using Azure Backup.

Providing a rich GUI for Azure Data Lake Storage (ALDS) resources management has been a top customer for a long time, we are thrilled to announce the public preview for supporting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE).

We previously announced the preview of Azure Backup reporting and gave customers the ability to generate their own reports and build customizations using Power BI.

Looking back over the past year and seeing the progress we’ve made gives us a real sense of momentum as we continue to double-down on our investments in Azure Government in 2018.

Check out what happened last week in Azure: Event Grid became generally available, Ansible pre-installed in Cloud Shell, and more.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Firewalls and Virtual Networks (VNets) for Azure Storage along with Virtual Network Service Endpoints.