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Yousef Khalidi

Yousef Khalidi

Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

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Published • 11 min read

Enabling and securing ubiquitous compute from intelligent cloud to intelligent edge 

Enterprises are embracing the cloud to run their mission-critical workloads. The number of connected devices on and off-premises, and the data they generate continue to increase requiring new enterprise network edge architectures. We call this the intelligent edge – compute closer to the data sources and users to reduce latency.

Published • 3 min read

Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites 

Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps and content is pivotal to a business’ success.

The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration.

Enhancing the customer experience with the Azure Networking MSP partner program 

We are always looking for ways to improve the customer experience and allow our partners to complement our offerings. In support of these efforts we are sharing the Azure Networking Managed Service Provider (MSP) program along with partners that deliver value added managed cloud network services to help enterprise customers connect, operationalize, and scale their mission critical applications running in Azure.

Published • 3 min read

Announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion 

For many customers around the world, securely connecting from the outside to workloads and virtual machines on private networks can be challenging. Exposing virtual machines to the public Internet to enable connectivity through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH), increases the perimeter, rendering your critical networks and attached virtual machines more open and harder to manage.

Published • 5 min read

Fast and optimized connectivity and delivery solutions on Azure 

Today I’m excited to announce the availability of innovative and industry leading Azure services that will help the attendees of NAB realize their future vision to deliver for their audiences – Azure Front Door Service (AFD), ExpressRoute Direct and Global Reach, as well as some cool new additions to both AFD and our Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Published • 4 min read

SONiC: Global support and updates 

Over the past few years, SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), our open switch OS, has been in the fast lane. A diverse group of community partners have actively engaged with us to contribute and support the evolvement of the software.