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Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HYCU, Inc (https://www.hycu.com/)., the fastest growing data protection as a service company, today announced it has added its 50(th) as a service integration for customers needing to protect and recover data for IaaS, DBaaS, PaaS and SaaS application workloads to HYCU Marketplace.
Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse enables Zero Trust
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute Recent incidents from ransomware to supply chain compromises have shown both the interconnectedness of our digital world and the critical need to secure these digital assets from attackers, criminals, and other hostile third parties. To achieve this, our customers need Zero Trust security and least privilege access for users and resources.
Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute The ability to run Kubernetes anywhere, whether in the cloud or on-premises, has been a high priority for Azure customers looking to rapidly innovate, with increasing customer focus on the benefits of container-optimized workloads and operating systems, lean application modernization, easier operations, and platform resiliency. To support this rapid evolution, we’re announcing that Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk GmbH.
Announcing public preview of Azure Cloud Shell
Justin Luk Program Manager, Azure Compute A few months ago, Brendan Burns wrote a blog post about how his passion for containers and user interfaces would come together to enable a new integrated workflow that supports working with Azure in both graphical and command-line interfaces. He also mentions how containers offer an efficient way to create clean and consistent interfaces for users to interact with and how containers are revolutionizing compute workloads within Azure.
Empowering developer velocity and efficiency with Kubernetes
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute Welcome to KubeCon North America! It seems only yesterday that we were together in San Diego. Though we’re farther apart physically this year, the Kubernetes community continues to go strong.
Open Azure Day: A VIP Linux and OSS speaker line-up in one event
The Linux and open-source landscapes are changing rapidly. With so many companies embracing remote work and operations this year, we’re seeing more organizations running large-scale, mission-critical Linux and open-source workloads than ever before. IT teams need technical resources that can keep up—now. Even organizations that had already begun moving to the cloud are now finding that they need to accelerate and expand their cloud adoption.
Build resilient applications with Kubernetes on Azure
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute Welcome to KubeCon EU 2020, the virtual edition. While we won’t be able to see each other in person at KubeCon EU this year, we're excited that this new virtual format of KubeCon will make the conference more accessible than ever, with more people from the amazing Kubernetes community able to join and participate from around the world without leaving their homes.
Fully managed HashiCorp Consul Service generally available on Azure today
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute I want to congratulate the HashiCorp and Microsoft Azure teams on the general availability of HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. This is a first-of-a-kind achievement for HashiCorp running a cloud-based service. Within Azure, we have a deep commitment to build a platform where anyone from startups to large-scale enterprises can deliver reliable, compelling services that augment the Azure platform and benefit our customers.
Announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
“We constantly hear from our customers that they want flexibility in their HPC environment. Flexibility in VM types, available capacity, and even up-front commitment.
Announcing the general availability of Windows Server containers and private clusters for Azure Kubernetes Service
Brendan Burns Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute Today’s application environments are often heterogeneous, composed of both Windows and Linux applications. Using Kubernetes to host containers on both Windows Server and Linux not only saves costs but also reduces operational complexity. Many Azure customers have demonstrated this with their usage of Windows server containers.
Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
Today we are announcing the preview of a maintenance control feature for Azure Virtual Machines that gives more control to customers with highly sensitive workloads for platform maintenance. Using this feature, customers can control all impactful host updates, including rebootless updates, for up to 35 days. Azure frequently updates its infrastructure to improve the reliability, performance, and security, or to launch new features.
Announcing the general availability of Proximity Placement Groups
Posted on December 9, 2019 Earlier this year, we announced the preview of Azure proximity placement groups to enable customers to achieve co-location of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources with low network latency. Today’s general availability of proximity placement groups continues to be particularly useful for workloads that require low latency.
Announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single Virtual Machines in addition to Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). This enables you to deploy a broader variety of workloads on Azure while enjoying access to discounted pricing. Spot Virtual Machines offer the same characteristics as a pay-as-you-go Virtual Machines, with differences in pricing and evictions.
Building cloud-native applications with Azure and HashiCorp
With each passing year, more and more developers are building cloud-native applications. As developers build more complex applications they are looking to innovators like Microsoft Azure and HashiCorp to reduce the complexity of building and operating these applications. HashiCorp and Azure have worked together on a myriad of innovations.
Introducing Azure Dedicated Host
We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Dedicated Host, a new Azure service that enables you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers. Azure Dedicated Hosts provide you with visibility and control to help address corporate compliance and regulatory requirements.
Introducing proximity placement groups
Co-locate your Azure resources for improved application performance The performance of your applications is central to the success of your IT organization. Application performance can directly impact your ability to increase customer satisfaction and ultimately grow your business. Many factors can affect the performance of your applications. One of those is network latency which is impacted, among other things, by the physical distance between the virtual machines deployed.
Introducing the new Azure Migrate: A hub for your migration needs
Moving on-premises apps and data to the cloud is a key step in our customers’ migration journey, and we’re committed to helping simplify that process. Earlier this year, we invited customers to participate in the preview of multiple new migration capabilities. Today, I am excited to announce the latest evolution of Azure Migrate, which provides a streamlined, comprehensive portfolio of Microsoft and partner tools to meet migration needs, all in one place.
Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift
At Red Hat Summit 2018, I had the pleasure of working with Scott Guthrie to demonstrate the new managed OpenShift on Azure that we were building into the Azure platform in partnership with Red Hat. Here at Red Hat Summit 2019, I’m thrilled to announce that the fruits of this collaboration have reached general availability.
Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the open sourcing of the Kubernetes project, it’s remarkable to look back and see how this project has transformed cloud and distributed systems. But the truth is, as much impact as Kubernetes and containers have had over the past five years, there are other cloud transformations that have been equally important.
Help us shape new Azure migration capabilities: Sign up for early access!
Posted on February 4, 2019 Based on Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery usage trends, we know that many of you are well along on your Azure migration journey. We’re now working on the next wave of innovation to further enhance and simplify your migration experience. We have a great opportunity for you to influence and shape product direction through early access to new capabilities.
KubeCon North America 2018: Serverless Kubernetes and community led innovation!
Welcome to KubeCon North America 2018, and welcome to Seattle. It’s amazing to get the chance to welcome you to my hometown, and the site of Kubernetes birth. It was barely five years ago that Joe, Craig, and I had the first small ideas and demos that eventually turned into the amazing project and community.
Expanding the HashiCorp partnership
I’m grateful to have the opportunity to speak at HashiConf ’18. It’s always awesome to work with Mitchell, Armon, and the talented engineers at HashiCorp because I believe that we share the same focus on building pragmatic, open-source, and enterprise-ready tools for the cloud.
Ephemeral OS Disk in limited preview
Today we are delighted to share the limited preview of Ephemeral OS Disk, a new virtual machine (VM) and virtual machine scale set (VMSS) feature that allows you to create an OS disk directly on the host node, providing local disk performance and faster VM/VMSS reimage time.
Announcing private preview of Azure VM Image Builder
Today I am excited to announce the private preview of Azure VM Image Builder, a service which allows users to have an image building pipeline in Azure. Creating standardized virtual machine (VM) images allow organizations to migrate to the cloud and ensure consistency in the deployments. Users commonly want VMs to include predefined security and configuration settings as well as application software they own. However, setting up your own image build pipeline would require infrastructure and setup.
Move Managed Disks and VMs now available
We are encouraged by the response to the introduction of Managed Disks. Since the announcement, we’ve seen many customers take advantage of this new way to manage persistent storage for their Virtual Machines.
Announcing the public preview of Shared Image Gallery
In May 2018, we launched the limited preview of Shared Image Gallery. We observed very encouraging adoption levels and we have further improved Shared Image Gallery based on your feedback. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Shared Image Gallery. Shared Image Gallery provides an Azure-based solution to make the custom management of virtual machine (VM) images easier in Azure.
Managed Disks migration now available in the Azure Portal
We are excited to announce the capability of converting VMs with unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal! Now you can migrate to Managed Disks in single click without requiring PowerShell or CLI scripts. Our customers love the benefits of using Managed Disks. Many customers have already adopted Managed Disks since we launched it. If you have not started using Managed Disks, here’s a quick recap of all the capabilities to motivate you to use Managed Disks.
Announcing availability of Azure Managed Application in AzureGov
Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Provider (MSP), Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the enterprise Service Catalog of a specific end-customer. Customers can quickly deploy managed applications in their own subscription and rely on the partner or central IT team for maintenance operations and support across the lifecycle.
Announcing the Azure Cloud Shell editor in collaboration with Visual Studio Code
Last year at the //Build conference we launched the Azure Cloud Shell in the Azure portal, providing our users with a cloud-native command-line environment from any device, anywhere in the world. Over the last year, we've seen incredible adoption, with thousands of users logging in every day. We've added some incredible integrations that make Cloud Shell even more powerful. We added automatic authorization for pre-installed open source tools like Terraform, Ansible, and InSpec.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) GA - New regions, more features, increased productivity
They say time flies when you're having fun, and as I approach two years working on containers in Azure, I see the truth in that saying. Over the last two years we have launched a Kubernetes service in Azure, acquired Deis, joined the Linux foundation, launched the Draft and Brigade open source projects, launched the first serverless container infrastructure in the major public clouds, and most recently acquired GitHub where Kubernetes was born.
OpenShift on Azure: The easiest, fully managed OpenShift in the cloud
Today at Red Hat Summit 2018 in San Francisco, Microsoft and Red Hat will jointly demonstrate our OpenShift on Azure offering, the first fully managed and easiest to use version of OpenShift in the cloud. Since last year’s announcement about OpenShift Dedicated on Azure, based on customer feedback, Microsoft and Red Hat have created an offering that provides much more to customers than the original concept. It will be both fully managed and engineered to make it easier and quicker to use on Azure.
Announcing low-priority VMs on scale sets now in public preview
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of low-priority virtual machines (VMs) on VM scale sets. Low-priority VMs allow users to run their workloads at a fraction of the price, enabling significant cost savings. This offering has been available through our Azure Batch service since May 2017, and because we have seen great customer success we are expanding it to VM scale sets.
Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Azure virtual machines (VMs) called Write Accelerator! Write Accelerator is a new disk capability that offers customers sub-millisecond writes for their disks. Write Accelerator is initially supported on M-Series VMs with Azure Managed Disks and Premium Storage. Write Accelerator is recommended for workloads that require highly performant updates, such as database transaction log writes.
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