Management and governance

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent.

Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. v0.1.0 of the Azure Monitor Data Source plugin has now added support for the Azure US Government, Azure Germany, and Azure China clouds.

I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Applications in the Azure Marketplace. Managed Applications, an Azure unique offering, enables you to deploy entire applications and empower your partner to fully manage and maintain the application in your environment.

Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed, turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the Azure Marketplace or through the enterprise service catalog of a specific end-customer.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 23, 2017: Cray supercomputers in the cloud, managed Kubernetes, GDPR resources and tools, and more

I am happy to announce new capabilities in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), which will now allow you to start replicating your Azure IaaS virtual machines within one-click.

Five highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 9, 2017: IoT Updates, New previews, Azure Management Libraries for .NET v1.3, Cloud Platform Release Announcements, and Stuff to watch & listen.

This post reviews some of the cool new features supported by the new Azure Log Analytics query language. To learn more on the query language check out the tutorials on our language site and our Log Analytics community space.

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant Payment Processing environments, the only auditor reviewed, 100% automated solution for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI DSS 3.2 technical controls.

Today at the Ignite 2017 conference in Florida, we announced a range of new monitoring and analytics capabilities in Azure bringing together application and infrastructure monitoring in a unified curated overview in Azure Monitor.

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Over the past year, the Microsoft Azure team has explicitly focused on removing all barriers for enterprise customers, so that even the most complex technology and policy requirements are uniquely met with Azure.