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AI + Machine Learning, Azure AI, Azure Container Apps, Compute, Containers, Events, Partners
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
I had the opportunity to participate in this year’s Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3), hosted by our software partner, Edgeless Systems. The panel featured some of the industry’s most respected technology leaders.
Announcements, Azure confidential ledger, Databases, Security
Published • 4 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Microsoft continues to be the cloud leader in confidential computing, and the Azure team is excited to continue our leadership by partnering with Intel to offer confidential computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (Intel TDX) later this year, enabling organizations in highly regulated industries to lift and shift their workloads with sensitive data to scale in the cloud.
Announcements, Azure Monitor, Compute, Management and Governance, Virtual Machines
Published • 9 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
“Earlier this year, we introduced Project Flash in the Advancing Reliability blog series, to reaffirm our commitment to empowering Azure customers in monitoring virtual machine (VM) availability in a…
AI + Machine Learning, Compute, Thought leadership, Virtual Machines, Virtual Network
Published • 5 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
We introduce AiDice, a novel anomaly detection algorithm developed jointly by Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure that identifies anomalies in large-scale, multi-dimensional time series data. AiDice captures incidents quickly and provides engineers with important context that helps them diagnose issues more effectively, providing the best experience possible for end customers.
AI + Machine Learning, Security, Thought leadership, Virtual Machines
Published • 4 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Confidential computing technology encrypts data in memory and only processes it once the cloud environment is verified, helping protect data from cloud operators, malicious admins, and privileged software. Today, we are excited to announce the next chapter in a strategic partnership between NVIDIA and Microsoft that brings confidential computing to state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs.
Azure Monitor, Compute, DevOps, Thought leadership, Virtual Machines
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Today, we’re excited to announce the completion of the project’s first two milestones—the preview of VM availability data in Azure Resource Graph, and the private preview of a VM availability metric in Azure Monitor.
Azure Active Directory, Hybrid + Multicloud, Security, Thought leadership
Published • 5 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
The most critical promise of our identity services is ensuring that every user can access the apps and services they need without interruption. We’ve been strengthening this promise to you through a multi-layered approach, leading to our improved promise of 99.99 percent authentication uptime for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Announcements, Compute, Key Vault, Security
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
The exponential growth of datasets has resulted in growing scrutiny of how data is exposed—both from a consumer data privacy and compliance perspective. In this context, confidential computing becomes an important tool to help organizations meet their privacy and security needs surrounding business and consumer data.
Serverless, Thought leadership
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Microsoft’s cloud supply chain is essential to deliver the infrastructure—servers, storage, and networking gear—that enables cloud reliability and growth. Our vision is for cloud capacity to be available like a utility so that customers can seamlessly turn it on when and where they need it.
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Now, in addition to getting a fast notification when a VM’s availability is impacted, customers can expect a root cause to be added at a later point once our automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) system identifies the failing Azure platform component that led to the VM failure.