IT implementors

Azure Site Recovery now supports disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines and physical machines by directly replicating to managed disks. You will have the choice to select the type of managed disk. Provides hassle free management of capacity in Azure.

Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache® Spark™-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building big data and AI solutions that drive the business forward, all backed by industry-leading SLAs.

Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for any customer network. VNet lets you create your own private space in Azure, or as I call it your own network bubble.

We are excited to share the public preview of AzCopy in Azure Storage Explorer. AzCopy is a popular command line utility that provides performant data transfer into and out of a storage account.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From February 1 to February 15, 2019, 54 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

IT organizations are under more pressure than ever to do more with less, they are expected to drive competitive advantage and innovation with higher quality while managing with smaller teams.

Azure Data Box offline family lets you transfer hundreds of terabytes of data to Microsoft Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner.

The future of food security and feeding an expanding global population depends upon our ability to increase food production globally—an estimated 70 percent by the year 2050, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL; Secure server access with VNet service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB; Announcing new capabilities in Azure Firewall; and much more.

So you followed that excellent walkthrough on the web and built a great prototype web app. You run npm start locally and browse to https://localhost and it all looks great.

We are happy to announce that Microsoft and Intel are partnering to bring optimized deep learning frameworks to Azure. These optimizations are available in a new offering on the Azure marketplace called the Intel Optimized Data Science VM for Linux (Ubuntu).

APIs have become mundane. They have become the de facto standard for connecting apps, data, and services. In the larger picture, APIs are driving digital transformation in organizations.