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Published April 29, 2024 • 7 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Hannover Messe 2024: Scaling Industrial Transformation with Azure's Adaptive Cloud Approach
By Kam VedBrat, GM Azure IoT & Edge
Adaptive Cloud announcements from Hannover Messe 2024
Published April 22, 2024 • 5 min read | LinkedIn
Accelerating Industrial Transformation at Hannover Messe 2024
By Douglas Phillips, CVP, Azure Edge + Platform
Key learnings and takeaways from Hannover Messe 2024
Published April 22, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Arc Blog
Public Preview of Azure Arc Site Manager
By Nathan Parikh, Program Manager
This week we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Arc site manager
Published April 22, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Arc Blog
Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator
By Kiana Harris, Product Manager
We are thrilled to announce the Limited Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator (ESA), a 1P storage system designed for Arc-connected Kubernetes clusters.
Published April 22, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Stack Blog
Sneak Peek at new Azure edge infrastructure at Hannover Messe 2024
By Cosmos Darwin, Principal Group PM Manager
Sharing a sneak peek of new Azure edge infrastructure at Hannover Messe 2024.
Published April 22, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Observability Blog
Accelerate your observability journey with Azure Monitor pipeline (preview)
By Xema Pathak, Senior Product Manager
We are thrilled to announce the preview of the Azure Monitor pipeline at edge.
Published April 19, 2024 • 5 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Unlocking industrial data for AI: Microsoft partners with leading connectivity providers
By Fabian Frank, Senior Product Manager
Microsoft is partnering with leading industrial connectivity partners Advantech, PTC, and Softing to unlock industrial data for AI and accelerate digital transformation for industrial customers leveraging Azure IoT Operations through Azure's adaptive cloud approach.
Published April 17, 2024 • 3 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Setting a Blueprint for Industrial Edge Application Interoperability
By Erich Barnstedt, Principal Program Manager
Microsoft is thrilled to support Margo, a new open-source initiative for interoperability between edge applications, edge devices, and edge management software
Published March 29, 2024 • 5 min read | LinkedIn
Invaluable Insights: Learnings from the Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2024
By Douglas Phillips, CVP, Azure Edge + Platform
Key learnings and takeaways from Microsoft’s annual MVP Summit
Published October 5, 2023 • 3 min read | Internet of Things Blog
General Availability: Azure IoT Hub supports Azure Cosmos DB routing endpoint now!
By Usha Rathnave, Microsoft
We are happy to announce the general availability of support for Azure Cosmos DB endpoints from Azure IoT Hub.
Published September 26, 2023 • 4 min read | AnnouncementsAzure ArcHybrid + MulticloudPartners
Accelerating Azure’s edge capabilities through collaborative partnerships
By Douglas Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Azure Edge + Platform
Premier Solutions is a new category of Azure Local products that provides customers with an improved operational experience, faster time to value, and greater flexibility with as-a-service procurement options.
Published September 14, 2023 • 4 min read | Azure Functions Azure IoT EdgeAzure IoT HubAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Real-world sustainability solutions with Azure IoT
By Adam Bogobowicz, Director of IoT and Digital Operations Marketing
With technologies like open industrial IoT, advanced analytics, and AI, Microsoft Azure ensures manufacturing organizations are well-equipped to understand, mitigate, and validate their environmental impacts.
Published August 31, 2023 • 4 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Powering the next generation of Digital Operations with Windows IoT and AKS
By Megha Tiwari, Microsoft
In today's economy, data is the most valuable commodity. Enterprises around the world and across all industries are looking for ways to harness the power of data to digitally transform their operations.
Published July 19, 2023 • 4 min read | AnnouncementsAzure ArcHybrid + MulticloudPartners
Redefining how we deliver the power of Azure to the edge
By Douglas Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Azure Edge + Platform
Learn how you can leverage Azure Arc to deliver cloud-connected experiences reliably across a globally distributed footprint that extends to where your business operates.
Published March 13, 2023 • 6 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Bring all your workloads to the edge with AKS Edge Essentials. Now Generally Available
By Jason Farmer, Principal Program Manager
Today, at Embedded World, we announce the General Availability (GA) of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials.
Published November 20, 2023 • 8 min read | Azure.com Blog
Advancing hybrid cloud to adaptive cloud with Azure
By Douglas Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Azure Edge + Platform
An adaptive cloud approach shifts organizations from a reactive posture to one of proactive evolution, enabling people to anticipate and act upon changes in market trends, customer needs, and technological advancements ahead of time.
Published November 15, 2023 • 4 min read | Azure Arc Blog
Bringing Cloud Operations & Management innovations anywhere!
By Satya Vel, Principal PDM Manager
We are excited to share some of the new integrations and improvements that will enable you to bring all the management innovations in the Azure cloud to your hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Published November 15, 2023 • 6 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Accelerating Industrial Transformation with Azure IoT Operations
By Kam VedBrat, General Manager, Azure Edge and IoT
Today we are announcing the public preview of Azure IoT Operations, enabled by Azure Arc.
Published November 15, 2023 • 6 min read | Azure Stack Blog
Accelerate edge deployments with cloud-managed infrastructure and Azure Local version 23H2
By Cosmos Darwin, Principal Group Manager
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023 we’re announcing the public preview of Azure Local version 23H2.
Published January 8, 2024 • 6 min read | Internet of Things Blog
Delivering VMware nested virtualization for Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
By Francisco Cabrera, Senior Technical Program Manager
Announcing support for AKS Edge Essentials as a nested virtualization solution on top of VMware ESXi.
Published February 1, 2024 • 7 min read | Azure.com Blog
Harmonizing AI-enhanced Physical and Cloud Operations
By Douglas Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Azure Edge + Platform
Azure’s adaptive cloud approach provides is a single AI-enhanced operations and innovation platform for developing highly distributed applications that reveal insights and accelerate transformation.
Published February 1, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Stack Blog
Azure Local version 23H2 is generally available
By Cosmos Darwin, Principal Group Manager
Today we’re announcing general availability of Azure Local version 23H2.
Published February 1, 2024 • 5 min read | Azure Stack Blog
AKS enabled by Azure Arc is now available on Azure Local 23H2
By Guang Hu, Senior Program Manager
AKS enabled by Azure Arc is now available on Azure Local 23H2