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Posted on May 12, 2020 Avi Ben-Menahem Director of Program Management, Azure Security The Azure Security Benchmark v1 was released in January 2020 and is being used by organizations to manage their security and compliance policies for their Azure workloads. We are pleased to share that you can now track and monitor your compliance with the benchmark across…

Posted on May 13, 2020 Julia White Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure The global health crisis has transformed the way we work and live. Remote work has surged across industries, and the ability to scale and manage your business from anywhere has become essential. As our customers are moving beyond resolving immediate crisis needs, many are…

Posted on May 19, 2020 Raghu Ramakrishnan Chief Technology Officer, Azure Data What 2020 is teaching us is that the world can change in an instant. In the span of a few months, we have witnessed massive disruptions across every industry around the globe. Factories are idle, hotels are empty, and the transportation backbone that connects…

Posted on May 21, 2020 Natalia Mackevicius General Manager, Azure Stack Today, more than ever before, it is essential that our colleagues, customers, and partners be able to react quickly and confidently to rapidly changing circumstances. The ability to ingest, analyze, and act on incoming information requires that an organization have a robust, scalable technology infrastructure.…

Posted on May 21, 2020 Gayle Sheppard Corporate Vice President, Azure Data In November we announced Azure Synapse Analytics—a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. Despite the massive disruptions occurring throughout industries in recent months, we continue to see a high level of excitement and enthusiasm for joining the private…

Posted on May 26, 2020 Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure Thousands of partners and enterprises use Azure Lighthouse to manage services across Azure tenants, representing tens of thousands of subscriptions and more than one million Azure resources from Azure Resource Manager—a unified control plane. With Azure Lighthouse, service providers, as well as self-managing enterprises, can achieve…

Posted on May 27, 2020 Daniel Sol Program Manager, Azure Compute Customizing virtual machine (VM) images to meet security and compliance requirements and achieve faster deployment is a strong need for many enterprises, but most don’t enjoy the process and energy needed for determining the right tooling, building the right pipeline, and maintaining it continuously. We…

Posted on May 27, 2020 Paul Yuknewicz Group Product Manager, Azure Developer Tools Now more than ever, developers need agility to meet rapidly increasing demands from customers. Containerization is one key way to increase agility. Containerized applications are built in a more consistent and repeatable way, by way of defining desired infrastructure, dependencies, and configuration as…

Posted on May 28, 2020 Yousef Khalidi Corporate Vice President, Azure Networking Last week at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced that Azure Peering Service is now generally available. We also introduced “routing preference,” a new option for our customers to further architect and optimize their traffic to and from Azure over the “public Internet.” Read more: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/optimize-for-internet-traffic-with-peering-service-and-the-routing-preference-option/

Posted on June 1, 2020Roberto Lucchi Senior Program Manager, Azure Maps As enterprises continue to evolve in their digital transformation journey, there is a need for augmenting Azure Maps content with project-specific and private business knowledge of places. Today we’re launching Azure Maps Creator in preview to extend location intelligence to indoor spaces. Read more :…