Before year-end, Microsoft will make available to testers a preview version of a new Azure Container Service which will bring together Apache Mesos, Docker and Azure.
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“Azure Data Lake solves numerous productivity and scalability challenges that prevent you from maximizing the value of your data assets with a service that’s ready to meet your current and future business needs”.
A year after Satya Nadella, chief executive, Microsoft Corp. said the company would provide cloud services from local data centres in India, the Redmond-based firm has opened three, in Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.
“29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -??BT today announced it is further broadening its Cloud of Clouds offering by providing customers the ability to connect directly to the Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute”.
The final announcement from Microsoft was the launch of its N-series Azure Virtual Machines, powered by NVIDIA GPUs. Though other players in the market such as Amazon Web Services launched its graphical processing unit in 2010, Microsoft has proclaimed that it deserves to be called the first “hyper scale provider” that offers the latest Nvidia technology. And to help customers make sure all these tools will work with their Internet-connected devices, Microsoft is setting up an official Azure Certified for IoT program.
Besides expanding its container service offerings, Microsoft said the updates will focus on several specific areas, including big data, mobile apps development, faster cloud deployment, the Internet of Things, and intelligent infrastructure. Microsoft is building two types of Windows containers directly into Windows Server 2016.
Through the CSP program, Applied Innovations can now not only offer Azure services to their customers and manage the lifecycle of its own customers but be the single point of contact for direct provisioning, billing, and 24/7 phone and email support of Microsoft cloud services. Partners include BeagleBone, Freescale, Intel, Raspberry Pi, Resin.io, Seeed Technology and Texas Instruments. “This, of course, means that partners that deal with these government agencies can develop the same hybrid cloud solutions that are enabled in the regular Azure environment”.
Microsoft did something similar recently with the Cortana Analytics Suite.
BT will offer Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 at global locations in Europe, the US and Asia, where the service is available.
The company has announced Azure Security Center, which integrates with security solutions from companies such as Barracuda, Checkpoint and Cisco for integrated security, monitoring and policy management.
Yes and of course, Microsoft said transformation, transformation, transformation – that’s what everybody says today – Microsoft also said “generational shift in computing”, so that’s a nice extra.
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Microsoft is one of many vendors that see huge opportunities in this space.
