Azure Virtual WAN simplifies networking needs

By Dustin Ward

Today we are excited to make announcements in multiple areas of Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN), networking as a service that brings networking, security, and routing functionalities together to provide a single operational interface. As enterprises increasingly adopt the cloud while reducing their costs, IT teams looking to consolidate, accelerate, or even revamp their wide area…

Leverage SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage to build a unified data lake

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing that SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support for Azure Blob Storage is generally available. SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage is a fully managed, highly scalable SFTP service that enables simple, secure, and easy-to-manage file transfers. This empowers you to modernize your data transfer workflows and eliminate data silos. The addition…

How Microsoft Azure helps drive agility and optimization for your business

By Dustin Ward

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite! I’m incredibly inspired by this global community and how you’ve navigated your organizations through significant changes over the past few years. In a world where business leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with less, organizations of all sizes and industries are increasingly embracing cloud technologies as the path toward…

Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps—introducing AiDice

By Dustin Ward

This blog post has been co-authored by Jeffrey He, Product Manager, AIOps Platform and Experiences Team. In Microsoft Azure, we invest tremendous efforts in ensuring our services are reliable by predicting and mitigating failures as quickly as we can. In large-scale cloud systems, however, we may still experience unexpected issues simply due to the massive…

Ensure zone resilient outbound connectivity with NAT gateway

By Dustin Ward

Our customers—across all industries—have a critical need for highly available and resilient cloud frameworks to ensure business continuity and adaptability of ever-growing workloads. One way that customers can achieve resilient and reliable infrastructures in Microsoft Azure (for outbound connectivity) is by setting up their deployments across availability zones in a region. When customers need to…

Announcing new enhancements for Azure VMware Solution

By Dustin Ward

I’m thrilled to be writing to you today from VMware Explore in San Francisco, where my team and I will be presenting and meeting with customers and partners in person! When we launched Azure VMware Solution two years ago amid a pandemic, IT agility became a top priority as organizations scrambled to enable remote work…