Azure Flash Friday
Up-Coming Events
Minnesota Azure Users Group
Thursday, April 6th
@Microsoft office 3601 W 76th, Edina, MN
For more information:
https://aka.ms/mplsazug
Announcing Azure SQL Database Premium RS, 4TB storage options, and
enhanced portal experience
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sql-database-4tb-premium-and-premium-rs-preview/
Today we are happy to announce the preview of the latest edition to our service tiers, Premium RS, a
4TB increase of storage limits for Premium P11 and P15, and along with it a new, enhanced portal
experience for selecting and managing service tiers and performance levels.
Adding more choices in our service tiers and increasing the available storage is a crucial step towards
reaching our long-term commitment of providing more flexibility. Both for compute as well as storage
across all performance tiers, allowing increased flexibility to customers.
Ecosystem momentum positions Microsoft’s Project Olympus as de
facto open compute standard
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ecosystem-momentum-positions-microsoft-s-project-olympusas-de-facto-open-compute-standard/
Last November we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation cloud hardware design
and a new model for open source hardware development. Today, I’m excited to address the 2017 Open
Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit to share how this first-of-its-kind open hardware development
model has created a vibrant industry ecosystem for datacenter deployments across the globe in both
cloud and enterprise.
Today, we’re pleased to report that Project Olympus has attracted the latest in silicon innovation to
address the exploding growth of cloud services and computing power needed for advanced and
emerging cloud workloads such as big data analytics, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This is the first OCP server design to offer a broad choice of microprocessor options fully compliant with
the Universal Motherboard specification to address virtually any type of cloud computing workload.
Networking innovations that drive the cloud disruption
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-innovations-that-drive-the-cloud-disruption/
At Microsoft, our goal is to offer cloud services that any customer, anywhere in the world, can securely
use without worrying about capacity constraints or service quality. We want customers to be able to get
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to their resources from anywhere, at any scale, with no limitations, easily and securely. However, when
we started developing cloud offerings, we quickly realized that connecting an enterprise-grade cloud
infrastructure across the entire world would take new networking technologies and novel management
strategies. Traditional networking approaches wouldn’t give us the speed, reliability, and security
needed by customers. To meet these challenges, we’ve been innovating and heavily investing in
network infrastructure
Azure Blueprint supports the UK Government’s Cloud Security Principles
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blueprint-supports-the-uk-government-s-cloud-securityprinciples/
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the release of Azure Blueprint for the UK
Government’s Cloud Security Principles. Blueprint empowers Azure customers to build the most secure
cloud solutions on the most secure cloud platform.
Azure Blueprint for the UK Government enables UK public sector organizations to understand how
solutions built on Azure implement the 14 individual Cloud Security Principles published by the National
Cyber Security Centre, supporting workloads with information designated as UK OFFICIAL. The Azure
Blueprint UK Government Customer Responsibilities Matrix outlines how Azure implements security
controls designed to satisfy each security principle and assists customers in understanding how they
may implement safeguards within their Azure solution to fulfill the requirements of each principle
where they hold a responsibility.
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