Virtual Machines

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

We are excited to expand support of Bletchley v1 into the Azure Marketplace and add many new partners to our growing ecosystem.

We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.

In the introduction of Project Bletchley white paper in June, we introduced some of the requirements needed for building consortium based blockchains as well as Cryptlets, a primitive for next generation blockchain applications.

Configuration management at scale, whether to align machines to organizational policy or to enable continuous deployment, can be a tedious and error-prone process. Azure Automation DSC, now generally available, makes it easy.

Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps, STRATO, in addition to AlphaPoint and IOTA joining the Blockchain as a Service ecosystem.

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.

We are excited to announce we have just made creating Docker Swarm clusters on Azure as simple as only a few clicks.

Announcing support for two debugging features: Console Output and Screenshot support for Azure Virtual Machines.

Announcing public preview for template-based deployments of Compute, Networking and Storage, using the Azure Resource Manager to transform building, deploying and managing large-scale complex applications into simple actions.