Announcements

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the new Azure HDInsight Management SDK. This preview SDK brings support for new languages and can be used to easily manage your HDInsight clusters.

Earlier this year, we released the public preview of Azure Serial Console for Virtual Machines (VMs).

Today I am excited to announce the private preview of Azure VM Image Builder, a service which allows users to have an image building pipeline in Azure.

We are excited to preview a set of Azure Resource Manager Application Program Interfaces (ARM APIs) to view cost and usage information in the context of a management group for Enterprise Customers.

Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack can build and run production Java applications using Azul Systems Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK without incurring additional support costs.

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.