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Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns

Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

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Innovate with cloud-native apps and open source on Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite. I’m thrilled to share how Microsoft is empowering you to innovate with cloud-native and open source on Azure. The growth of Kubernetes and cloud-native applications in Azure and the broader technology has been nothing short of humbling and awe-inspiring. Open innovation is at the heart of nearly every innovation in cloud computing. The cloud-native ecosystem empowers people to build applications that make it easy to take advantage of this innovation.

Published • 4 min read

Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse enables Zero Trust 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

Recent incidents from ransomware to supply chain compromises have shown both the interconnectedness of our digital world and the critical need to secure these digital assets from attackers, criminals, and other hostile third parties. To achieve this, our customers need Zero Trust security and least privilege access for users and resources.

Published • 2 min read

Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

The ability to run Kubernetes anywhere, whether in the cloud or on-premises, has been a high priority for Azure customers looking to rapidly innovate, with increasing customer focus on the benefits of container-optimized workloads and operating systems, lean application modernization, easier operations, and platform resiliency. To support this rapid evolution, we’re announcing that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Kinvolk.

Open Azure Day: A VIP Linux and OSS speaker line-up in one event 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

The Linux and open-source landscapes are changing rapidly. With so many companies embracing remote work and operations this year, we’re seeing more organizations running large-scale, mission-critical Linux and open-source workloads than ever before. IT teams need technical resources that can keep up—now. Even organizations that had already begun moving to the cloud are now finding that they need to accelerate and expand their cloud adoption.

Published • 3 min read

Building cloud-native applications with Azure and HashiCorp 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute

With each passing year, more and more developers are building cloud-native applications. As developers build more and more complex applications they are looking to innovators like Azure and HashiCorp to reduce the complexity of building and operating these applications. HashiCorp and Azure have worked together on a myriad of innovations.