Wednesday, July 14, 2021
The Microsoft Cloud opportunity is stronger than ever with over 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies using Azure, over 145 million daily active users on Microsoft Teams, and over 250,000 organizations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to run and transform their businesses—partners are realizing limitless potential. And partners are critical to helping businesses in every industry respond and adapt to the challenges of the world today.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Today we are announcing the general availability of Azure VM Image Builder service, a managed service for you to build custom Linux or Windows VM images with ease, and be compliant with your company’s security policy across Azure and Azure Stack. With Azure VM Image Builder Service, the Microsoft managed service built on HashiCorp Packer, you can describe custom images in a template using new or existing configurations and enables VM image building immediately without setting up and managing your own image building pipeline.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The power of 5G, IoT, and real-time AI will unlock new and innovative services for enterprises across the world to accelerate their transformation toward Industry 4.0 as they evolve and adopt diverse new business models. Today, we’re introducing Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC), new services to accelerate 5G and edge monetization, and a new partner initiative to empower operators, SIs, and ISVs to develop Microsoft-validated Azure private MEC customer solutions.
Tad Brockway
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure for Operators
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
In July 2020, we announced our goal to eliminate our dependence on diesel fuel for backup power in our datacenters by 2030. This is in addition to our commitment to have 100 percent supply of renewable energy procured for our datacenter operations by 2025. Reliable backup power is essential to our customer promise—delivering highly available, reliable, and scalable cloud services.
Noelle Walsh
Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation
Friday, May 7, 2021
As your ally in the cloud, our Azure mission is to deliver thoughtfully designed products and services that equip you to solve challenges and invent what’s next. Our ability to meet your business and innovation needs is in part due to our growth mindset—which extends from front-end user experiences to small details like graphics and icons.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
For companies worldwide, SAP is at the core of their business applications—housing critical information on sales, manufacturing, and financial processes. However, due to the inherent sophistication of SAP systems, many organizations struggle to integrate SAP data into modern analytics projects.
Daniel Yu
Director, Azure Cloud Scale Analytics
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Customers are undergoing rapid transformations to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world with cloud design patterns and event streaming playing critical roles in their success.
Friday, January 22, 2021
This past year has shown us how important it is to be ready for the unexpected. I spent a lot of time talking with customers, and it was rewarding to hear their stories of using technology to respond quickly to changing business needs.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Current market conditions demonstrate how heavily the world relies on technology to increase the resilience of the supply chain, and how important agility and data insights are to enable quick decision-making and shifts in strategy to serve rapidly changing needs.
Ulrich Homann
Corporate Vice President and Distinguished Architect, CLOUD + AI
Monday, November 9, 2020
In May, we announced a groundbreaking partnership with Redis Labs to bring their Redis Enterprise software to Azure as a part of Azure Cache for Redis. We were humbled by the level of excitement and interest we received. We are announcing that you can now use Redis to tackle new challenges while making your caches larger and more resilient than ever before.