Mark Russinovich posts

Chief Technology Officer, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 2006 when the company was acquired. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, and RSA Conference. He has authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, Troubleshooting with the Sysinternals Tools, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.

October 3, 2022 5 min read

Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps—introducing AiDice

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.
March 22, 2022 4 min read

Azure confidential computing with NVIDIA GPUs for trustworthy AI

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.
February 14, 2022 6 min read

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring with Project Flash

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.
November 22, 2021 5 min read

Advancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service

The most critical promise of our identity services is ensuring that every user can access the apps and services they need without interruption.
November 2, 2021 6 min read

Key foundations for protecting your data with Azure confidential computing

The exponential growth of datasets has resulted in growing scrutiny of how data is exposed—both from a consumer data privacy and compliance perspective.
September 30, 2021 6 min read

Advancing reliability through a resilient cloud supply chain

Microsoft’s cloud supply chain is essential to deliver the infrastructure—servers, storage, and networking gear—that enables cloud reliability and growth.
August 2, 2021 6 min read

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability transparency

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.
July 12, 2021 6 min read

Advancing application reliability with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

We created the Azure Well-Architected Framework to help improve the quality of your workloads, and reliability is one of its five core pillars so for the latest post in our series, I have asked Cloud Advocate David Blank-Edelman to run through how best to approach using the framework to guide your conversations and design decisions in this space.
July 7, 2021 10 min read

Advancing resiliency threat modeling for large distributed systems

All service engineering teams in Azure are already familiar with postmortems as a tool for better understanding what went wrong, how it went wrong, and the customer impact of the related outage.
June 30, 2021 7 min read

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps—introducing Gandalf

The continuous monitoring of health metrics is a fundamental part of this process, and this is where AIOps plays a critical role.
June 7, 2021 4 min read

Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

There are many factors that can affect critical environment infrastructure availability—the reliability of the infrastructure building blocks, the controls during the datacenter construction stage, effective health monitoring and event detection schemes, a robust maintenance program, and operational excellence to ensure that every action is taken with careful consideration of related risk implications.
March 24, 2021 5 min read

Advancing Azure business continuity management

If you ask three people what a service is, you may get three different answers.