Microsoft’s newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021 Monday, September 21, 2020 On our journey to become Carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft is continually innovating and advancing the efficiency and sustainability of our cloud infrastructure, with a commitment to use 100 percent renewable energy in all of our datacenters and facilities by 2025. Brian Janous General Manager, Energy and Sustainability

Azure Container Instances - Docker integration now in Docker Desktop stable release Wednesday, September 16, 2020 We’re happy to announce that today’s new stable release of Docker Desktop includes the Azure Container Instances - Docker integration. Install or update to the latest release and get started deploying containers to Azure Container Instances (ACI) today. MacKenzie Olson Program Manager, Azure Container Instances

Build a scalable security practice with Azure Lighthouse and Azure Sentinel Wednesday, September 16, 2020 The Microsoft Azure Lighthouse product group is launching a blog series Azure Lighthouse covering areas where we are investing to make our service provider partners and enterprise customers successful with Azure. Poornima Natarajan Senior Program Manager, Cloud + Enterprise

Azure NetApp Files cross region replication and new enhancements in preview Wednesday, September 16, 2020 As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission critical databases. Lichun Li Program Manager, Microsoft Azure

NFS 4.1 support for Azure Files is now in preview Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Azure Files is a distributed cloud file system serving Server Messaging Block (SMB) and REST protocols. Azure Files enables customers to easily lift and shift their legacy workloads to the cloud without any modifications or changes in technology. SMB works on both Windows and UNIX operating systems for most use cases. Because some applications are written for POSIX compliant file systems, our customers wanted to have the same great experience on a fully POSIX compatible NFS file system. Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 protocol is now in preview. Rena Shah Program Manager, Azure Storage

Preparing for what’s next: Building landing zones for successful cloud migrations Tuesday, September 15, 2020 As businesses look to the cloud to ensure business resiliency and to spur innovation, we continue to see customer migrations to Azure accelerate. Jeremy Winter Partner Director, Azure Management

Better outcomes with AI: Frost & Sullivan names Microsoft the leading AI platform for healthcare IT Monday, September 14, 2020 Frost & Sullivan have recognized Microsoft as the “undisputed leader” in global AI platforms for the healthcare IT sector. John Doyle Director, Cloud & AI, Microsoft Healthcare

Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation—now in preview Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Learn how you can use cost allocation to split and manage shared costs to help simplify financial reporting within your organization. Ben Shy Senior Program Manager - Azure Cost Management + Billing

View your Azure Cache for Redis data in new Visual Studio Code extension Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Azure Cache for Redis is an in-memory data store that is used to power fast, scalable applications. Now in preview, you can access all the caches under your Azure subscriptions and view their data with the new Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension. Carolina Uribe-Gosselin Program Manager