Announcements

We are thrilled to announce that HDInsight 4.0 is now available in public preview. HDInsight 4.0 brings latest Apache Hadoop 3.

It is my pleasure to announce the availability of the public preview of the Azure Sphere Security Service, Azure Sphere Operating System, and Visual Studio development experience.

Azure Managed Disks provides durable and highly available persistent storage for your virtual machines. We offer three types of disks with different performance characteristics.

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for mission-critical workloads.

Conversational AI is the next user interface paradigm in computing, making human and computer interactions more natural. We’ve evolved from a world where humans have to learn and adapt to computers to one where computers are learning how to understand and interact with humans.

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, I shared how the confluence of Cloud, Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving unprecedented change and is rapidly becoming foundational to innovation in every industry.

Hadoop 3.0 is a major upgrade to the Hadoop stack enabling developers to build deep learning systems and business applications on top of very large datasets using the most modern compute infrastructure available in the cloud.

AI, data and cloud are bringing in the next wave of transformative innovations across industries. With Azure AI, our purpose is to empower organizations to use AI to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations and transform products.

For years now, our partners and customers have been using the Azure Internet of Things (IoT) platform to create breakthrough applications for a wide variety of industries.

Since its introduction five years ago, SignalR has grown to be one of the most popular real-time connection technologies around the world. As applications that use SignalR scale, managing and scaling a SignalR server can become quite a bit of work.

Today, we are announcing Windows Virtual Desktop, the best virtualized Windows and Office experience delivered on Azure.

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando we announced the preview of Azure Data Explorer in 41 regions – a lightning fast service optimized for data exploration. The service helps organizations quickly discover insights from petabytes of structured and unstructured data.