IT implementors

Today, Microsoft Azure is generally available from the new Microsoft Cloud Germany, a first-of-its-kind model in Europe developed in response to customer needs.

We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.

In the introduction of Project Bletchley white paper in June, we introduced some of the requirements needed for building consortium based blockchains as well as Cryptlets, a primitive for next generation blockchain applications.

Create a dev/test environment that simulates an enterprise organization using Office 365 and directory synchronization.

Government clouds are not all the same so we’re starting a dialogue on our strategy for building the Microsoft Government Cloud, exploring several areas we believe are highly valuable differentiators.

The public availability of the Service Fabric for Linux preview on Monday, Sept. 26, coincident with the Ignite conference.

Technology has enabled some pretty amazing things, but being in two places at once still isn’t one of them.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob Storage. You can enable this feature on any Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API.

Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

Microsoft is the first global provider to deliver the complete cloud from datacenters in the UK.

New update to SQL Database Advisor greatly reduces the time required (from a week to a day) to produce and implement index tuning recommendations, making the performance tuning process much faster.

We are happy to announce that JSON support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.