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.

March 22, 2021 1 min read

Learn about the latest innovations: Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture

At Microsoft Ignite, I presented the “Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture” session to give a tour of the latest innovations around how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.
March 15, 2021 3 min read

Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution

Even before the pandemic accelerated digital transformation globally, the scalability and security advantages offered by Microsoft Azure prompted organizations large and small to migrate their data, applications, and workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud.
March 11, 2021 8 min read

Advancing failure prediction and mitigation—introducing Narya

Project Narya is a holistic, end-to-end prediction and mitigation service—named after the “ring of fire” from Lord of the Rings, known to resist the weariness of time.
March 8, 2021 2 min read

Announcing preview of Azure Trusted Launch for virtual machines

Persistent threats like bootkits and rootkits are sophisticated malware types that run with the same kernel-mode privileges as the operating system they infect.
November 16, 2020 7 min read

Advancing global network reliability through intelligent software—part 2 of 2

In our two-part series on advancing global network reliability through intelligent software, we explain how we’ve approached our network design, and how we’re constantly working to improve both reliability and performance.
November 9, 2020 8 min read

Advancing global network reliability through intelligent software—part 1 of 2

In our two-part series on advancing global network reliability through intelligent software, we explain how we’ve approached our network design, and how we’re constantly working to improve both reliability and performance.
October 14, 2020 3 min read

Azure and Intel commit to delivering next generation confidential computing

Today, we are announcing that Azure will be an early adopter of the 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Platform, code named Ice Lake, which includes full memory encryption and accelerated cryptographic performance for confidential computing with Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX).
August 31, 2020 9 min read

Advancing a culture of reliability at the pace of Azure

Learn how Azure engineering teams have evolved their culture, processes, and frameworks to balance the pace of innovation with assurance of performance and quality.
August 17, 2020 12 min read

Advancing the outage experience—automation, communication, and transparency

As part of our Advancing Reliability blog series, we’re outlining the investments we’re making to continue improving the outage experience.
July 27, 2020 9 min read

Advancing resilience through chaos engineering and fault injection

This post is designed to get you thinking about how best to validate typical failure conditions, including examples of how we at Microsoft validate our own systems.
June 29, 2020 8 min read

Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps

As Mark mentioned when he authored the Advancing Reliability blog series, building and operating a global cloud infrastructure at the scale of Azure is a complex task with hundreds of ever-evolving service components, spanning more than 160 datacenters and across more than 60 regions.
June 22, 2020 4 min read

Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure

Azure provides customers a simple and intuitive way to declaratively provision and manage infrastructure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates.