IT implementors

Actuating Mobility in the Enterprise with New Azure Maps Services and SDKs; Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2; Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier; and more!

The Azure Sphere 19.02 release is available today.

Storage spaces direct (S2D) lets you host a guest cluster on Microsoft Azure which is especially useful in scenarios where virtual machines (VMs) are hosting a critical application like SQL, Scale out file server, or SAP ASCS.

On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2.

Recently the disclosure of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was announced in the open-source software (OSS) container runtime, runc. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root-level code execution on a “host. runc” which is the underlying container runtime underneath many popular containers.

To meet customer demand, Azure is continuously expanding. We’ve been adding new Azure regions and introducing new capabilities. As a result, customers want to move their existing virtual machines to new regions while adopting the latest capabilities.

The IT industry is experiencing a shift from monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures.

Connectivity is often the first challenge in the Internet of Things (IoT) world, that’s why more than three years ago we released Azure IoT SDKs.

Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy Azure and third-party services—edge modules—to run directly on IoT devices, whether they are cloud-connected or offline.

Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers; Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data services; Azure Cost Management now GA for EA customers; and more.

The mobility space is at the forefront of the most complex challenges faced by cities and urban areas today.

When we discuss Azure Stack with customers, they see the value in Azure Stack providing cloud-native capabilities to their datacenters.