It’s not every day that you get to be a part of something being discussed at dinner tables around the world—and we’re hearing this from customers and partners too. They’re eager to reimagine how they do business, embracing generative AI to deliver the next generation of apps and experiences. New and inspiring use cases surface […]

Business-to-Business (B2B) commerce is experiencing a revolution driven largely by the mass adoption of cloud computing and the movement towards a simpler, more digital buying experiences. At the same time, cloud budgets are strong and mostly growing—IDC is predicting that cloud services will surpass USD1.7 trillion by 2026 while sustaining compound annual growth of almost 17 percent. […]

The future of connectivity and the cloud Over the past decade, we at Microsoft have seen a tremendous amount of change—digital transformation enabled by the cloud. But the cloud’s biggest impact is yet to come. McKinsey estimates that by 2030, we’ll see more than a trillion dollars impacted by the cloud across the Fortune 500.1 In […]

The future of connectivity and the cloud Over the past decade, we at Microsoft have seen a tremendous amount of change—digital transformation enabled by the cloud. But the cloud’s biggest impact is yet to come. McKinsey estimates that by 2030, we’ll see more than a trillion dollars impacted by the cloud across the Fortune 500.1 In […]

Since introducing Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) in public preview (June 2021), we have continued to further our mission of empowering enterprises and governments to achieve more with modern connected applications. Azure private MEC simplifies adoption of these applications by enterprises with cloud-managed edge infrastructure and services combined with edge networking. Private 5G is […]

As part of our commitment to ensuring that Microsoft Azure is the best place to run SQL Server and Windows Server, Microsoft is excited to announce that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines just achieved new, faster performance benchmarks than ever before. According to a report from analyst firm GigaOm, customers can get mission-critical performance […]

High-performance computing (HPC) and orbital data deliver unprecedented insights into weather patterns, improving planning, forecasting, and decision-making, in an ever-evolving agriculture supply chain. Consequently, global food security may be one of the defining challenges of the coming decades. By 2050, The World Bank estimates that global food production will have to rise by a staggering […]

In our previous blog we discussed what mutual transport layer security (mTLS) is and what some of its use cases are. In this blog I want to discuss two of those use cases. First, how to send client certificate to the backend application server and validate the setup by curl command and second how to […]

Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept at large-scale cluster computing. Azure Managed Lustre provides the high-performance storage of Lustre with the […]

This post was coauthored by Katie Fritsch and ChatGPT. Are you interested in learning more about Azure and open-source technologies?  Do you want to learn about the latest AI capabilities on Azure and how Microsoft is leveraging open-source technologies to drive innovation? If so, you won't want to miss Azure Open Source Day on Tuesday, […]