Hybrid + multicloud

We are announcing that the preview release of the Apache Spark 3.0 compatible Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL, available through Maven.

Businesses today are building and running applications across various ecosystems: on-premises, in multiple clouds, and on edge. To maintain agility and ensure compliance, it’s critical to an organization’s success to effectively manage servers, applications, and data at scale—regardless of where they are located.

Increasing competition and ever-growing demand for mobile, always-on services challenge operators to find new strategies to grow profits and gain a competitive edge.

As customers grow their mission critical workloads, scaling up to manage spiky workloads in house can become an expensive proposition.

We’re announcing that ServiceNow® ITOM Discovery is now integrated with Microsoft’s Azure Resource Graph, enabling faster and scalable discovery of your organization’s Azure estate within operational workflows.

As businesses move more workstreams to the cloud, business continuity and data protection have never been more critical—and perhaps their importance has never been more visible than during the challenges and unpredictability of 2020.

We are excited to share that Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020 according to DB-Engines, who recently announced their DBMS of the Year award.

Digital transformation is accelerating at an incredible rate for consumers and employees alike, and the way we live and work has drastically changed.

As a new normal has been defined by a worldwide pandemic and economic changes this year, businesses have sought new ways to optimize the delivery of their goods and services and better IT cost efficiency in an increasingly remote work environment.

Current market conditions demonstrate how heavily the world relies on technology to increase the resilience of the supply chain, and how important agility and data insights are to enable quick decision-making and shifts in strategy to serve rapidly changing needs.

Defense and national security missions often occur away from headquarters and in the field, where things happen quickly and rapid decision making can translate to success or failure.

Today, we are announcing the expansion of our mission-critical cloud for US Government with new capabilities in Azure Government, the expansion of Azure Government Secret, and the announcement of a new cloud to serve customers with top secret classified data—Azure Government Top Secret.