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From end-to-end data capabilities and cloud-native applications to cross-functional collaboration, Microsoft cloud technologies help our customers deliver solutions and services faster to meet their own customers’ rapidly changing needs. Kathleen Mitford Corporate Vice President, Azure Marketing Read more Build real-time web apps with Azure Web PubSub—now generally available Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Real-time application scenarios such as live data updates, chat for streaming videos, interactive whiteboards for remote education, and IoT dashboards are helping businesses become more agile and more responsive to customers. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed WebSocket-based service that enables you to focus on building real-time web and mobile experiences. WebSocket is a standardized protocol that provides full-duplex communication. Yulin Shi Principal Program Manager Enhance third-party NVA availability with Azure Gateway Load Balancer—now in preview Thursday, November 11, 2021 Today, we are announcing the preview of Gateway Load Balancer, a fully managed service enabling you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party NVAs in Azure, that builds on that capability. You can add your favorite third-party appliance whether it is a firewall, inline DDoS appliance, deep packet inspection system, or even your own custom appliance into the network path transparently—all with a single click. Anavi Nahar Senior PM, Azure Networking Discover what’s new to Microsoft database services—recap from Microsoft Ignite Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Whether it’s SQL Server, Azure SQL, open source, or NoSQL, Microsoft’s database services are here to help you build cloud-native applications or modernize existing applications with fully managed, flexible databases. Asad Khan Director Program Management, Microsoft Azure Advancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service Monday, November 22, 2021 The most critical promise of our identity services is ensuring that every user can access the apps and services they need without interruption. We’ve been strengthening this promise to you through a multi-layered approach, leading to our improved promise of 99.99 percent authentication uptime for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure Cloud Strategy Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming Monday, November 22, 2021 Today, we are announcing the launch of two new Microsoft datacenters in Cheyenne, Wyoming—one in Cheyenne Business Parkway and another in Bison Business Park—enabling us to expand and support the growth and demand for our digital services in our West Central US datacenter region. Cheyenne has been home to Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure services since 2012 and this expansion will enable us to continue providing services to current and new customers. Sergio Loureiro Vice President of Core Operations for Microsoft’s Datacenters Cloud Strategy Updates Simplify connectivity, routing, and security with Azure Virtual WAN Monday, November 22, 2021 Over the past few months, we added several new capabilities to Azure Virtual WAN which customers can embrace to significantly simplify routing design and management in Azure, and secure traffic flows. Today, we are announcing new features that customers can utilize when they are applicable to their scenarios. Reshmi Yandapalli Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking Virtual Machines Networking Forging a path from telco to cloud with Microsoft Azure Thursday, November 18, 2021 Across industries, organizations are venturing deeper into their digital transformation journeys every day, and the telco industry is no exception. We recently sat down with Microsoft’s Partner Software Engineering Manager, Ryan van Wyk, who joined Microsoft as part of our acquisition of AT&T’s carrier-grade Network Cloud platform technology. Ryan van Wyk Partner Software Engineering Manager, Azure for Operators Cloud Strategy Microsoft and AT&T are accelerating the enterprise customer’s journey to the edge with 5G Wednesday, November 17, 2021 With new use cases and connected devices becoming ubiquitous, enterprises are requiring new edge application solutions to help them build innovative solutions. Microsoft and AT&T’s deep collaboration meets these needs by supporting our mutual customers’ digital transformation and evolution. Jason Zander Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure Networking Bringing commercial innovations in chip design to national security Wednesday, November 17, 2021 Semiconductors and microelectronics are one of the most important components in building cutting edge capabilities for our national security and defense technologies, from satellites and radar to vehicles and communications equipment. Tom Keane Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure Security Government Build real-time web apps with Azure Web PubSub—now generally available Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Real-time application scenarios such as live data updates, chat for streaming videos, interactive whiteboards for remote education, and IoT dashboards are helping businesses become more agile and more responsive to customers. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed WebSocket-based service that enables you to focus on building real-time web and mobile experiences. WebSocket is a standardized protocol that provides full-duplex communication. Yulin Shi Principal Program Manager Web Cloud Strategy Serverless Join Azure at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Tuesday, November 16, 2021 The Azure High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution enables experts in silicon design by providing them the infrastructure and tools for chip design, IP design, silicon manufacturing, and silicon supply chain. As our customers face additional unique threats and challenges made worse by the pandemic, the Azure cloud can solve many of these by providing a secure, scalable platform that was built for HPC. Rachel Pruitt Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing, HPC+AI Virtual Machines Cloud Strategy Events Microsoft expands its AI-supercomputer lineup with general availability of the latest 80GB NVIDIA A100 GPUs in Azure, claims 4 spots on TOP500 supercomputers list Monday, November 15, 2021 Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of a brand-new virtual machine (VM) series in Azure, the NDm A100 v4 Series, featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core 80GB GPUs. This expands Azure leadership-class AI supercomputing scalability in the public cloud, building on our June general availability of the original ND A100 v4 instances, and adding another public cloud first with the Azure ND A100 v4 VMs claiming four official places in the TOP500 supercomputing list. Sherry Wang Senior Program Manager, Azure HPC and AI Developer Cloud Strategy Enhance third-party NVA availability with Azure Gateway Load Balancer—now in preview Thursday, November 11, 2021 Today, we are announcing the preview of Gateway Load Balancer, a fully managed service enabling you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party NVAs in Azure, that builds on that capability. You can add your favorite third-party appliance whether it is a firewall, inline DDoS appliance, deep packet inspection system, or even your own custom appliance into the network path transparently—all with a single click. Anavi Nahar Senior PM, Azure Networking Virtual Machines Azure Marketplace 1 2 3 4 … Subscribe Explore See where we're heading. 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