Announcements

We announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights (previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure.

Today organizations are turning to the cloud not only to accelerate – but to transform – their business. Part of the Azure PaaS portfolio, Azure Functions, offers a serverless compute experience for rapid application development and operational agility.

We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.

We are thrilled by the surprisingly large number of bots, tools, channels and the overall vibrancy and excitement within the developer community since our launch of Bot Framework on Github in March. The democratization of AI and the advancement of conversational canvasses are well underway.

Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.

This post talks about new security features provided by Azure Backup.

In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).

Containers are the next evolution in virtualization, enabling organizations to be more agile than ever before.

In today’s cloud-first world, applications are the vital ingredients that fuel innovation and productivity.

Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking at Zettastructure: The European Digital Infrastructure Summit hosted by Datacenter Dynamics in London.

Today I am with over 600 of our federal, state and local government customers and partners at the Government Cloud Forum 2016, in Washington D.C.

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, the latest addition to our data platform in the cloud.