October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).
September was Ignite month – I will get to that in a moment. That means there should be lots of news. And this should be a post full of Azure announcements. But will it be?
June 2020 marks the end of Vibranium and the start of Manganese, the codenames for the ending and starting half-year semesters in the Azure development year.
As you might notice below, there were a lot of announcements in the world of Azure Infrastructure last month. That’s because Microsoft Build, the developer-focused conference, happened and it is one of the inflection points for new releases in the Azure calendar. Sure, Build is developer-focused, but in the modern world, developers and operators are…
At times like this, chatting about cool new features in Azure is a lot less important than what’s surrounding us all, and impacting some of us either directly or indirectly, now. But you know what? A distraction from the fear, worry, or self-imposed incarceration can be a good thing. So let’s crack on with it, and let’s talk about the cool new IaaS features that Azure launched during the last month.
We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.
It may be the middle of Summer but there is a lot going on with Azure, this is what you need to know about Azure for the month of July.
This week at Ignite, Microsoft has announced a sizeable amount of data storage news and Aidan breaks it all down for easy consumption.
Ahead of Ignite, a few new Azure features have started to show up.
Aidan summarizes what’s been going on in Azure IaaS in August, and I’ll also discuss a few features and services that you might have missed or forgotten about.