Announcements

Last September at Ignite we announced plans for better web application security by adding Web Application Firewall to our layer 7 Azure Application Gateway service.

Today, we are excited to announce that Azure Data Factory newly enable loading data from SAP HANA and SAP Business Warehouse (BW) into various Azure data stores for advanced analytics and reporting.

Every day, customers around the world connect to Microsoft Azure, Bing, Dynamics 365, Office 365, OneDrive, Xbox, and many other services through trillions of requests.

Last November we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware development. Today, I’m excited to address the 2017 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S.

There is a common thread in advancements in cloud computing – they enable a focus on applications rather than the machines running them.

Recently, we have improved the robustness of web page monitoring in Application Insights, and introduced the ability not to use cookies. Transmission is now more reliable in the face of throttling and network issues, and when a page is about to unload.

While the cloud may have initially raised some security concerns among enterprises, Microsoft is changing those dynamics.

We would like to announce that Azure SQL Database Threat Detection will be generally available in spring 2017 and share few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection provides an important layer of security built into the Azure SQL Database service.

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Disks. With this PaaS-like support, you no longer need to be concerned with the complexity of storage management nor worry about storage as you scale.

We are excited to announce the public preview release of the Custom Speech Service from Microsoft Cognitive Services. The Custom Speech Service (formerly the Custom Recognition Intelligent Service) lets you customize Microsoft’s speech-to-text engine.

We are excited to announce the availability of an in-browser query tool that provides you an efficient way to execute queries on your Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL Data Warehouses without leaving the Azure Portal.

Today we are excited to announce Azure DocumentDB SDK for Xamarin mobile platform, enabling mobile apps to interact directly with DocumentDB.