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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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