5 reasons Databricks runs best on Azure

By Dustin Ward

For any organization running big data workloads in the cloud, exceptional scale, performance, and optimization are essential. Databricks customers have multiple choices for their cloud destination. Azure Databricks is the only first-party service offering for Databricks, which provides customers with distinct benefits not offered in any other cloud. The first-party integration and our unique strategic…

Strengthen and optimize compliance in Azure Security Center

By Dustin Ward

The Regulatory Compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center is an excellent tool for helping organizations understand their compliance posture relative to industry standards. Reporting on compliance with specific standards is obviously critical for regulated customers, though tracking compliance status is also relevant to many other organizations who want to align with industry-defined best practices. Many…

Expanding our DR scenarios to new zonal capabilities with Azure Site Recovery

By Dustin Ward

Azure provides high availability, disaster recovery, and backup solutions that can enable your applications to meet business availability requirements and recovery objectives. We continue to build upon our portfolio of resilient services by bringing zonal capabilities for improved business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical…