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Azure IoT Hub device management was recently announced at //build and I’m very excited to follow up with the details as Azure IoT Hub device management is now available in preview.

The Azure IoT Gateway SDK, available in beta today, eases the development process for any solution where on-premises computation is necessary to augment functionality provided by cloud services.

I’m excited to introduce two new papers that address common topics our customers often ask about. Both papers were designed to help you understand how Microsoft addresses complex processes so you can adopt Azure Cloud Services.

The MyDriving Azure IoT and Mobile sample application enables you to record trips in your car using the MyDriving mobile application and off the shelf OBD devices.

We’re announcing two new offerings to streamline Internet of Things (IoT) management for businesses with tens, thousands or even millions of geographically distributed assets and devices: Device management in IoT Hub and the Azure IoT Gateway SDK.

We are in the midst of an application development and IT system management revolution driven by the cloud where business realities are driving developers to adopt an application architecture model called “microservices.

Today, on Microsoft Mechanics, Jeffrey Snover, Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud, demonstrates the specific advantages of Azure Stack for those of you in IT.

For years, there has been discussion on when the enterprise-cloud migration tipping point would be reached, and at last it appears it has happened. We saw several trends accelerate in 2015 which address some of the barriers to adoption.

As part of our promise to deliver the best customer value on Azure, we have had a longstanding commitment to make our prices comparable on commodity services like compute, storage, and bandwidth relative to Amazon Web Services.

I’m excited to celebrate the phenomenal growth of Azure Government and announce the availability of new services and major investments in capabilities for Department of Defense (DoD) customers.

VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set.

At Microsoft, we believe the Internet of Things starts with your things, and our Azure services and solutions help companies quickly realize great business outcomes using both current and new IoT devices.