Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation

By Dustin Ward

The ability to run Kubernetes anywhere, whether in the cloud or on-premises, has been a high priority for Azure customers looking to rapidly innovate, with increasing customer focus on the benefits of container-optimized workloads and operating systems, lean application modernization, easier operations, and platform resiliency. To support this rapid evolution, we’re announcing that Microsoft has acquired…

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…

Build secure manufacturing operations with nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge

By Dustin Ward

The manufacturing industry continues to rapidly adopt Internet of Things (IoT) technology to optimize productivity, gain efficiencies, increase uptime, and meet sustainability goals. As organizations look to harness IoT across their ecosystems of connected devices, security and compliance continue to be at the forefront of conversations. Our commitment is to simplify IoT for mainstream adoption.…

Innovate across hybrid and multicloud with new Azure Arc capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Across industries, companies are investing in hybrid and multicloud technologies to ensure they have the flexibility to innovate anywhere and meet evolving business needs. Customers tell us a key challenge with hybrid and multicloud adoption is managing and securing their IT environments while building and running cloud-native applications. To enable the flexibility and agility customers…

Customers unify hybrid and multicloud IT operations with Azure Arc

By Dustin Ward

Businesses today are building and running applications across a variety of ecosystems on-premises, in multiple clouds, and on edge. To maintain agility and ensure compliance, it’s critical to an organization’s success to effectively manage servers, applications, and data at scale—regardless of where they are located. Microsoft Azure Arc is a set of technologies that unlocks new on-premises,…