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Tad Brockway

Tad Brockway

Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

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Published • 7 min read

Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

This year at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft announced Azure Private 5G Core, which is available as part of Azure private MEC. Azure Private 5G Core enables deployment and management of 5G core network functions on an Azure Stack Edge (ASE) device, as part of an on-premises private mobile network for enterprises.

Published • 11 min read

Unlocking the enterprise opportunity with 5G, edge compute, and cloud 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

The power of 5G, IoT, and real-time AI will unlock new and innovative services for enterprises across the world to accelerate their transformation toward Industry 4.0 as they evolve and adopt diverse new business models. Today, we’re introducing Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC), new services to accelerate 5G and edge monetization, and a new partner initiative to empower operators, SIs, and ISVs to develop Microsoft-validated Azure private MEC customer solutions.

Published • 5 min read

Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of—enabling you to migrate your existing on-premises Windows and Linux-based clustered environments to Azure. We’re also announcing important new disk enhancements to provide you with more availability, security, and flexibility on Azure.

Published • 2 min read

Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk Storage—a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.

Announcing the general availability of Azure premium files 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure premium files for customers optimizing their cloud-based file shares on Azure. Premium files offers a higher level of performance built on solid-state drives (SSD) for fully managed file services in Azure.

Published • 3 min read

Azure NetApp Files is now generally available 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of Azure NetApp Files, the industry’s first bare-metal cloud file storage and data management service. Azure NetApp Files is an Azure first-party service for migrating and running the most demanding enterprise file-workloads in the cloud including databases, SAP, and high-performance computing applications with no code changes.