Archives for 2022

In April, I published a blog that explained how we define and measure energy and water use at our datacenters, and how we are committed to continuous improvements. Now, in the lead up to COP27, the global climate conference to be held in Egypt, I am pleased to provide a number of updates on how […]

We are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Payment HSM, a BareMetal Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that enables customers to have native access to payment HSM in the Azure cloud. With Azure Payment HSM, customers can seamlessly migrate PCI workloads to Azure and meet the most stringent security, audit compliance, low […]

Gartner® recently published its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) report. For the ninth consecutive year, Microsoft was named a Leader, and for the first time placed furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. For years, we’ve understood the industry has trusted Gartner Magic Quadrant reports to provide a holistic review […]

This post was co-authored by Sacha Abinader, Managing Director, Accenture and Keith Armstrong, Senior Manager, Accenture Microsoft Business Group. Accelerate decision-making and interoperability with the OSDU Data Platform The OSDU™ Forum is a cross-industry collaboration to develop a common, standards-based, and open platform for the exploration and production (E&P) community with the goal to liberate […]

This post was co-authored by Sacha Abinader, Managing Director, Accenture and Keith Armstrong, Senior Manager, Accenture Microsoft Business Group. Accelerate decision-making and interoperability with the OSDU Data Platform The OSDU™ Forum is a cross-industry collaboration to develop a common, standards-based, and open platform for the exploration and production (E&P) community with the goal to liberate […]