Azure Blob Storage enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Enterprises, partners, and IT professionals store business-critical data in Azure Blob Storage. We are committed to providing the best-in-class data protection and recovery capabilities to keep your applications running. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)—providing protection against regional disasters and Account failover—allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover…

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now provide simpler management during scale-in

By Dustin Ward

We recently announced the general availability of three features for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Instance protection, custom scale-in policy, and terminate notification provide new capabilities to simplify management of virtual machine instances during scale-in. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets are a way to collectively deploy and easily manage a number of virtual machine (VM)…

Use Azure Firewall for secure and cost-effective Windows Virtual Desktop protection

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Pavithra Thiruvengadam, Program Manager, Windows Virtual Desktop Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance. Many employees aren’t protected by the layered security policies associated with on-premises services while working from home. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments on Azure can…