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.

November 30, 2023

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Building resilience to your business requirements with Azure

In this blog post, we will discuss some of the design principles and characteristics that we see among the customer leaders we work with closely to enhance their critical workload availability according to their specific business needs.
November 29, 2023

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How Azure is ensuring the future of GPUs is confidential

In Microsoft Azure, we are continually innovating to enhance security, such as our collaboration with our hardware partners to create a new foundation based on silicon, that enables new levels of data protection through memory encryption using Confidential Computing.
October 30, 2023

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Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

Sharing the latest advancements in improving VM availability monitoring for customers with Project Flash.
October 18, 2023

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The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team is excited to announce Radius, a cloud-native application platform that enables developers and platform engineers who support them to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications that follow corporate best practices for cost, operations, and security, by default.
May 8, 2023

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Insights from the 2023 Open Confidential Computing Conference

I had the opportunity to participate in this year’s Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3), hosted by our software partner, Edgeless Systems.
January 10, 2023

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Azure Confidential Computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel TDX

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.
November 10, 2022

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New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

“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…
October 3, 2022

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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

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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

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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

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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.