SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, 2014 /CNW/ -- Monday, at an event
in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp.
CEO Satya Nadella outlined how
Microsoft is using Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft
Dynamics to deliver the industry's most complete cloud — for every
business, every industry and every geography. Furthering this
commitment, Microsoft announced several enhancements to its
hyper-scale, enterprise-grade, hybrid cloud platform, including the
new Azure G-series of virtual machines and Premium Storage; the
general availability of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System,
powered by Dell; partnerships with Cloudera Inc. and CoreOS; and a
new Azure Marketplace.
"The enterprises of today and tomorrow demand a cloud platform
that is reliable, scalable and flexible," Nadella said. "With more
than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 on the Microsoft cloud, we are
delivering the industry's most complete cloud — for every business,
every industry and every geography."
A hyper-scale, enterprise-grade and hybrid cloud
infrastructure
Worldwide demand for cloud computing continues to accelerate,
and Microsoft is investing to meet this demand. Monday the company
announced the latest milestone in the global expansion of Azure,
with general availability of Azure in the Australia region next week. By the end of
2014, Microsoft Azure will be operational in 19 regions around the
world — at least double the number of any other public cloud
provider.
Microsoft also announced the G-series of virtual machines and
premium storage for Microsoft Azure. Powered by the latest Intel
Xeon processors, the G-series will be the largest virtual machines
available in the public cloud to date, while Azure Premium Storage
will provide incredible performance per virtual machine. Together
they will deliver the enterprise-grade scale and performance that
enterprises and developers need to run the most demanding workloads
in the cloud.
As enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud computing, the
demand for security enhanced, scalable and reliable hybrid cloud
solutions is on the rise. The Microsoft Cloud Platform System
(CPS), powered by Dell, brings together Azure, Windows Server and
Microsoft System Center to deliver an "Azure-consistent cloud in a
box." With pre-integrated hardware from Dell and software from
Microsoft, CPS delivers learnings from Azure to customers and
partners with the control of an on-premises appliance. CPS will be
available for purchase on Nov. 3.
Enterprise + startups and ISVs = accelerated cloud
adoption and innovation
With more than 40 percent of Azure revenue coming from startups
and ISVs, the new Azure Marketplace will connect this important
ecosystem with enterprise customers everywhere. Now Azure customers
will be able to search for and deploy their favorite operating
system, service or application with just a couple of clicks.
Monday, two new partners join Docker Inc., Oracle and hundreds of
others in the Azure Marketplace:
- Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytics and data management,
will be Azure certified by the end of 2014. This will provide a
quick and easy way to deploy Cloudera Enterprise, connect to
Microsoft Power BI and discover new insights, in minutes.
- CoreOS, the popular container-based Linux operating system, is
now available to all Azure customers. Customers can deploy CoreOS
images directly from the Azure Marketplace starting Monday. This
broadens Microsoft's first-class support for Linux on Azure.
"Our ecosystem is the backbone of our cloud platform, and our
embrace of open source technologies is at the heart," said
Scott Guthrie, executive vice
president of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft. "By helping to
create an open platform powered by choice and flexibility, we are
enabling the enterprises and developers of today and tomorrow to
connect with each other and create new business opportunities in
the mobile-first, cloud-first world."
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide
leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help
people and businesses realize their full potential.
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