Compute

Azure announcement of our new version of A series VM’s. Improving our disk speed and increasing our Memory ratios.

Today, I’m excited to announce three new Azure enhancements to enable you to run the largest enterprise workloads, offer you best-in-class support for those workloads, and deliver it at the lowest possible cost.

Today organizations are turning to the cloud not only to accelerate – but to transform – their business. Part of the Azure PaaS portfolio, Azure Functions, offers a serverless compute experience for rapid application development and operational agility.

Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.

We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.

Containers are the next evolution in virtualization, enabling organizations to be more agile than ever before.

I’m super excited to recap a busy month of service launches and releases.

We are happy to announce an exciting new capability we’ve added to the IoT Gateway SDK: Support for Azure Functions. With Azure Functions integration, developers can easily call cloud-based logic from their IoT gateway.

We’re excited to be releasing a preview that introduces native Linux support for Node.js and PHP stacks.

As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).

I am excited to announce today that Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server will be generally available for download at no cost.

This week at Ignite, we’re unveiling many new Azure capabilities and you’ll see a common meme across these – enabling IT with cloud infrastructure, security capabilities, holistic management, and world-class support for open source.