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.

June 27, 2018 5 min read

Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge

Today, I gathered with the tech community in the Seattle area at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit to talk about how customers are using the cloud and what the future holds.
May 9, 2018 3 min read

Azure confidential computing

Last September, I had the privilege to publicly announce our Azure confidential computing efforts, where Microsoft Azure became the first cloud platform to enable new data security capabilities that…
September 14, 2017 4 min read

Introducing Azure confidential computing

Microsoft spends one billion dollars per year on cybersecurity and much of that goes to making Microsoft Azure the most trusted cloud platform.
August 10, 2017 4 min read

Announcing the Confidential Consortium Blockchain Framework for enterprise blockchain networks

Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
September 13, 2016 2 min read

Service Fabric on Linux support available this month

The public availability of the Service Fabric for Linux preview on Monday, Sept.
June 21, 2016 4 min read

Microsoft brings container innovation to the enterprise at DockerCon 2016

We’ve been rapidly releasing container innovation to the Windows and Linux ecosystems over the past two years at Microsoft to deliver container solutions that help companies build and deploy applications at cloud speed and scale.
March 17, 2016 9 min read

Microservices: An application revolution powered by the cloud

We are in the midst of an application development and IT system management revolution driven by the cloud where business realities are driving developers to adopt an application architecture model called “microservices.
March 9, 2016 2 min read

OCP 2016: Building on community-driven innovation

I had the pleasure of addressing the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.
January 27, 2016 6 min read

Cloud innovation for the year ahead: From infrastructure to innovation

For years, there has been discussion on when the enterprise-cloud migration tipping point would be reached, and at last it appears it has happened.
November 11, 2015 4 min read

Azure VM Scale Sets public preview

VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set.
October 7, 2015 3 min read

Inside Azure File Storage

We were excited to announce the general availability of Azure File Storage, Microsoft Azure’s fully managed file shares in the cloud at AzureCon 2015, and I’d like to provide an inside view on how we built the service.
August 17, 2015 11 min read

Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends

From the basics of what containers are and how they work, to the scenarios they’re being most widely used for today, to emerging trends supporting “containerization”, I thought I’d share my perspectives to better help you understand how to best embrace this important cloud computing development.