New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available

By Dustin Ward

With the global pandemic, customers are relying on remote work more than ever, and Windows Virtual Desktop is helping customers rapidly deliver a secure Windows 10 desktop experience to their users. Charlie Anderson, CIO of Fife Council in the United Kingdom, was planning to modernize his companies’ existing Remote Destop Services (RDS) infrastructure, and then…

Advancing resilience through chaos engineering and fault injection

By Dustin Ward

“When I first kicked off this Advancing Reliability blog series in my post last July, I highlighted several initiatives underway to keep improving platform availability, as part of our commitment to provide a trusted set of cloud services. One area I mentioned was fault injection, through which we’re increasingly validating that systems will perform as…

Aiming for more than just net zero

By Dustin Ward

Climate experts across the globe agree: if we can’t drastically reduce carbon emissions, our planet will face catastrophic consequences. Microsoft has operated carbon neutral since 2012, and in January 2020 Brad Smith announced our commitment to going carbon negative by 2030. This isn’t a goal we can reach in one easy swoop—it will take time,…

Field Notes: Building a Disaster Recovery site on AWS for your Azure Workload

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Building a Disaster Recovery site on AWS for your Azure Workload Customers running workloads on other clouds, like Azure or GCP, can increase resilience and meet compliance requirements by using AWS as their disaster recovery site. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery provides an easy cross-cloud solution for replicating and recovering workloads from…

Enhancing your chatbot experience with web browsing

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedEnhancing your chatbot experience with web browsing Chatbots are popping up everywhere. They are qualifying leads, assisting with sales, and automating customer service. However, conversational chatbot experiences have been limited to the space available within the chatbot window. What if these web-based chatbots could provide an interactive experience that expanded beyond the…