Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

By Dustin Ward

“One of the foundations of the Azure cloud computing platform is the availability of the critical environment (CE) infrastructure, which provides power and cooling to IT infrastructure in our datacenters around the world. For today’s post in our Advancing Reliability series, I’ve asked Reliability Engineering Director Randy Kong from our Cloud Operations and Innovation Engineering Team to…

Harness the power of data and AI in your applications with Azure

By Dustin Ward

Over the past year, it’s become clear that businesses navigating these unprecedented times require a new level of agility. Core to this agility is achieving a level of software development excellence that was once thought unimaginable. When it comes to empowering all developers with limitless scale, choice, and possibilities, Microsoft Azure has their back. Our…

An invitation to innovate and transform your business on Azure SQL

By Dustin Ward

The past several months have seen their share of hardship, but despite the challenges, organizations continue to see digital transformation in the cloud as a path to growth. The promises of accelerated innovation, efficient operations, and lower costs among others, have helped many businesses remain viable—if not thrive—and they’re now looking at how they can…

Learn about the latest innovations: Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft Ignite, I presented the “Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture” session to give a tour of the latest innovations around how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge. I start by taking a look at our datacenters and our intelligent infrastructure, and how we’re applying machine…