Modern applications: driving innovation through choice and simplicity Applications are at the heart of business growth and transformation, and containerization is an increasingly popular way to maximize application value. With this could services Indian customers can develop, scale and enable services faster than before.
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Microsoft announced earlier today that a new Azure Container Service will be launched into the market soon and users will be getting a sneak-peek into service by the end of this year. Available in more than 170 markets around the globe, Private IP delivers scalability, varying classes of service, expansive reach and exceptional service including stringent service level agreements for latency and packet-loss. While Microsoft has been working for a few time with Docker to run containers on Windows, Zander added that the embrace of Apache Mesos represented the next step in running container workloads in the Windows cloud. “This opens up many partnership opportunities with Equinix”.
Microsoft India General Manager (Marketing and Operations) Tyler Bryson said Indian companies can now have option to store data locally with the launch of data centres.
BT will offer Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 at global locations in Europe, the United States of America and Asia, where the service is available. The company has introduced Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme, with current partners including Texas Instruments, Freescale Intel and Raspberry Pi.
The machine data can also be fed into Microsoft’s Power BI, its Azure-based analytics system, for “analysis and rich visualization”, said Schutz. With all these services Microsoft has become the first public could provider from India. With the Internet being part of the equation, governments are hesitant to embrace the cloud, as security and privacy issues are often perceived as a downfall of the cloud.
Microsoft did something similar recently with the Cortana Analytics Suite.
The new Azure Security Center, an integrated experience created to give customers visibility and control of their data without impeding agility, integrates with security solutions from Barracuda, Checkpoint, Cisco, CloudFlare, F5 Networks, Imperva, Incapsula and Trend Micro. And it added security features that allow a range of partner virtual security monitoring tools to work on top of Azure.
Globally, Microsoft has invested over $15bn in developing its cloud network. Applications need to be specially optimized in order to take full advantage of the framework’s capabilities, a complicated undertaking that makes it less attractive for existing workloads and smaller experiments than the easier-to-use Kubernetes.
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Perhaps the biggest news of the day from AzureCon, as Microsoft called the event, was the announcement of new support for containers on the public cloud. And, we are trying to further reduce that difference by making the connections directly possible by deploying newer technologies. With this new offer, customers who pre-purchase Azure compute for one year can realize cost savings of up to 63 percent.
