Advancing failure prediction and mitigation—introducing Narya

By Dustin Ward

“This post continues our Advancing Reliability series highlighting initiatives underway to constantly improve the reliability of the Azure platform. In 2018 we shared steps we’re taking to improve virtual machine (VM) resiliency using live migration. In 2019 we shared how we’re further improving virtual machine resiliency with Project Tardigrade, which identifies host failures and recovers from…

Azure Storage — Routing Preferences now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Routing Preference for Azure Storage provide the flexibility to optimize traffic between clients external to Azure and your storage account for premium network reliability and performance over the Microsoft global network or for cost efficiency using the transit ISP network. You can now also publish route-specific endpoints for your storage account.

Digital event: Extend to the cloud with Azure VMware solution

By Dustin Ward

Find out how to easily shift your VMware workloads to the cloud on your own terms and modernize your investments. Join us on March 23, 2021, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8), for the Extend to the Cloud with Azure VMware Solution digital event—delivered in partnership with Intel and VMware—and get to…

Azure Defender for Storage powered by Microsoft threat intelligence

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored with Roy Levin, Senior Data Scientist With the reality of working from home, more people and devices are now accessing corporate data across home networks. This raises the risks of cyber-attacks and elevates the importance of proper data protection. One of the resources most targeted by attackers is data storage,…