Hybrid + multicloud

Vernon Turner is the Founder and Chief Strategist at Causeway Connections, an information and communications technology research firm.

At Microsoft, we know DevOps adoption can be challenging. This is why we are excited to share our own journey, with learnings from teams across Microsoft who have transformed the way they work through DevOps adoption.

Using products like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), organizations are able to build distributed applications that are more resilient and dynamically scalable, while enabling portability in the cloud and at the edge.

If you are like many of our customers, you are running a mix of applications in your on-premises datacenters, multiple cloud environments, and edge.

Since announcing Azure Stack in 2017, we’ve set the stage for extending the cloud to customers’ datacenters. The hybrid cloud has been one of the design principles for Azure from the start.

We are highlighting key Azure Infrastructure enhancements that further power our customers’ digital transformation journey.

With the exponential growth in data, organizations find themselves in increasingly heterogenous data estates, full of data sprawl and silos, spreading across on-premises data centers, the edge, and multiple public clouds.

At Microsoft Ignite, we shared a ton of new product and business news, across Microsoft’s unique technology stack—spanning on-premises, client, server, and cloud. For Microsoft Azure, we have always believed in building products and programs that help our customers invent with purpose.

Today, we are announcing Azure Arc, a set of technologies that unlocks new hybrid scenarios for customers by bringing Azure services and management to any infrastructure. Azure Arc is available in preview starting today.

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports thousands of mission-critical customer applications powered by real-time insights.

Can you trust your cloud provider?

Earlier this week, we announced that Azure Sentinel is now generally available. This marks an important milestone in our journey to redefine Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for the cloud era.