Managed Disks

Microsoft ran another virtual edition of the Ignite conference in March. As usual there were a large number of Azure infrastructure announcements. Availability Zones Expansion Microsoft has committed to introducing availability zones to all Azure regions by the end of 2021. An Azure region (supposedly) is made up of one or more physical data centers…

November has come and gone but for those looking to catch-up on Azure, here’s what you need to know.

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?

In the Microsoft calendar, July marked the end of FY20 and the start of a whole new semester for Azure (and Windows) development.

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.

As we head towards Ignite, October had a bunch of Azure announcements but there will be even more next 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.