Networking

We are pleased to announce the general availability of token authentication with Azure CDN. This feature is available in the Azure CDN from Verizon Premium offering.

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.

This week we are announcing several new Azure networking services and features to provide customers greater performance, higher availability, better security and more operational insights.

Announcing the General Availability of the Azure DNS service. Azure DNS can now be used for production workloads, and is covered by the Azure SLA and Azure Support.

This article gives an overview of DNS-based threats and describes some ways of protecting your network from them.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure CDN from Akamai offering our customers an additional CDN provider to choose from.

Announcing support for two debugging features: Console Output and Screenshot support for Azure Virtual Machines.

Today we are excited to announce that Microsoft and Mesosphere are partnering to bring the Mesos’ highly scalable and elastic container orchestration to the world by porting directly to Windows Server.

Today, I’m excited to deliver a keynote talk at the Open Networking Summit, where I’ll be talking about how Microsoft is leveraging software-defined networking to power one of the largest public clouds in the world.

Over the past 9 months, Microsoft has been significantly investing in subsea and terrestrial dark fiber capacity by engaging in fiber partnerships that span multiple oceans and continents. And today, our connections across the Atlantic and Pacific just got stronger.

Last week at TechEd Europe we announced the general availability of Network Security groups, a key addition to the Azure Networking stack.

We have introduced a new distribution mode called Source IP Affinity and is also known as session affinity or client IP affinity.