Here are some highlight on the progress of Azure:
- Azure infrastructure encompasses Compute, Storage, Networking, and Security.
- There are now 30 Azure regions around the world, which is more than AWS and Google Cloud combined. Applications run closer geographically to many users.
- In one of its US East regions, Microsoft is currently building a data center campus that is more than a mile in length.
- The Azure cloud now encompasses more than a million servers.
- The 3 main reasons customers give for adopting Azure are Choice/Flexibility, Enterprise-ready, and Productivity.
- Popular tools supported by Azure include Puppet, Chef, Ansible, WordPress, Drupal, python, Ruby, SQL, hortonworks, mongoDB, Windows Server, Red Hat, Linux, Docker, etc.
- Microsoft has tens of thousands of support professionals.
- Azure is the only global public cloud vendor with a license to operate in China.
- 85% of Fortune 500 use the Microsoft cloud
- Azure introduced hundreds of new features and services over the past 12 months. Pace of innovation continues to accelerate.
- There are over 1.4 million SQL databases currently running in Azure.
- Azure IoT is now processing 2 trillion messages per week.
- Microsoft has acquired Xamarin for mobile app testing in the cloud. Xamarin is now available at no extra charge to every Visual Studio customer.
- Azure Fabric Service is now commercially available. It is a prescriptive microservice platform. It can deploy as a runtime on Azure, Azure Stack, VMware, OpenStack and AWS.
- Azure Container Service is now providing deep integration with Mesos, Swarm, Docker and other container technologies on both Linux and Windows Server.
- DocumentDB, which is a managed NoSQL database, now scales to 100s of Terabytes.
Scott Guthrie's keynote is online.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/KEY02
