IT implementors

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

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.

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.

Service Fabric is a microservices platform to build, deploy, discover, and scale services with message routing, low-latency storage, and health monitoring.

When we talk to our customers about their cloud strategy, we continue to hear loud and clear from many of them that a hybrid approach to cloud makes the most sense for their business.

As previously announced, Azure Pipelines is the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) solution for any language, application, or platform.

It is my pleasure to announce the availability of the public preview of the Azure Sphere Security Service, Azure Sphere Operating System, and Visual Studio development experience.

Azure Managed Disks provides durable and highly available persistent storage for your virtual machines. We offer three types of disks with different performance characteristics.