Thought leadership

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.

On the season premiere of Microsoft Mechanics, we demo the new container technology within Windows Server 2016, including a hands-on look at Hyper-V Containers and upcoming milestones for Azure, with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich.

From the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, data security is increasingly top of mind for all businesses, especially as they continue to target the cloud for both new and existing applications.

We were excited to announce the general availability of Azure File Storage, Microsoft Azure’s fully managed file shares in the cloud at AzureCon 2015, and I’d like to provide an inside view on how we built the service.

Over the last few years, we have made many investments in Azure to help you deploy Microsoft applications into the public cloud in an easy and safe way, a Cloud First approach to your application plans.

Today at AzureCon we wanted to share the progress we have made in expanding Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and providing more options to reach Microsoft Cloud services.

Trust is ever important to customers leveraging the cloud, that’s why Microsoft is working to further this trust by adopting stringent privacy principles.