Hybrid + multicloud

Today, Microsoft is announcing new intelligent cloud and intelligent edge capabilities for U.S. government customers.

Generally available: Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines; Generally available: Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse; The Things Network and Azure IoT connect LoRaWAN devices; and so much more.

Recently a new flaw was discovered in PolKit, a component which controls system-wide privileges in Unix-like OS. This vulnerability potentially allows unprivileged accounts to have root permission.

We are excited to announce public preview availability of Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers unparalleled performance and scalability by intelligently distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, which makes sharding simple.

Healthcare organizations depend on data-driven decisions. To enable better decisions and better health outcomes, healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud. There, the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics can be more easily tested and implemented.

The beginning of a new year is always a time to reflect on our plans. At Microsoft, with the end of support for 2008 servers looming, we’ve been thinking about how we can help you with your server refresh journey.

At Ignite 2018, Microsoft’s Azure Database for PostgreSQL announced the preview of Query Store (QS), Query Performance Insight (QPI), and Performance Recommendations (PR) to help ease performance troubleshooting, in response to customer feedback.

As 2018 comes to an end, I look at the technology landscape. I look at the kinds of hybrid scenarios our customers are developing.

We’re continuing to focus on delivering the innovations our government customers and partners have requested. In this blog, you’ll find a brief summary of our recent announcements from late summer and early fall for your reference.

For the past 25 years, companies of every size have trusted Windows Server and SQL Server to run their business-critical workloads. In fact, more than 70 percent of on-premises server workloads today run on Windows Server.

Over the past week, I visited customers and partners in Europe who want to bring cloud services to datacenters and edge locations to deliver new hybrid cloud solutions.