Azure simplifies operational management, streamlines utility optimization, and consolidates knowledge governance across dispersed infrastructure landscapes.
As artificial intelligence reshapes the operational dynamics of companies, businesses are confronting novel challenges that require them to refine their digital expertise platforms. Today’s enterprises require solutions that can effectively manage vast amounts of data to provide real-time insights, while also helping them navigate the complexities of working across IT and OT environments, including cloud, edge, and on-premises deployments.
That’s where Azure’s capabilities truly come into effect. To power a world where artificial intelligence reigns supreme, Microsoft’s Azure was engineered to harmonize operations, simplify infrastructure enhancements, and centralize data management across dispersed systems.
At Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we unveiled innovative features that simplify leveraging the power of Azure across any environment. Below are key announcements, including previews of forthcoming releases, introductions to new features, and common availability (GA) milestones for and beyond, among other updates.
With Azure Arc at its core, Microsoft’s strategy has already attracted over 39,000 global prospects, seamlessly integrating servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters onto the Azure platform. As the Azure Arc rapidly evolves, it becomes clear that the cloud has transcended its physical boundaries to become a transformative paradigm that permeates every organization.
We’re thrilled to showcase how prominent companies comparable to LALIGA, Coles, Husqvarna, and Emirates World Aluminium are harnessing the power of an adaptive cloud strategy to drive success and achieve their business goals.
Functions seamlessly with AI-enhanced administration and security.
One of the world’s most prominent soccer leagues, LALIGA, has seen significant benefits from our Azure cloud platform, leveraging its adaptability to manage scalable infrastructure that efficiently processes real-time data across both physical stadiums and digital channels, ultimately delivering an exceptional fan experience. Through its implementation of Azure Arc, LALIGA has successfully unified the management of both cloud and on-premises environments, thereby facilitating the processing of more than three million data points per match, and subsequently empowering the generation of rapid, AI-driven analytics. This cutting-edge platform empowers LaLiga to respond seamlessly to shifting fan engagement patterns, scaling effortlessly to stay ahead of technological innovations and emerging market trends, thereby ensuring sustained growth and innovation.
—Miguel Angel Leal Góngora, Chief Know-how & Innovation Officer, LALIGA
Ensuring operational resilience and safety across distributed programs is a paramount necessity to safeguard services and protect sensitive information.
Azure provides comprehensive tools to simplify the management and operation of all infrastructure and workloads, including configuration management and governance, resilience and observability, native security and monitoring, as well as integrated AI-assisted services like Azure Copilot. As a crucial step in simplifying cloud connectivity between datacenters and edge sites, we’re excited to introduce it in preview.
Our in-built response to buyer suggestions enables a seamless strategy for streamlined cloud connectivity, empowering teams to manage cloud connections with greater ease and simplicity, thereby enhancing overall network infrastructure management capabilities.
As a result, users will have easier access to. For no additional cost, customers with active Software Assurance (SA) or current subscription licenses can access certain Azure Arc-enabled management features. By integrating their servers with Azure, customers can leverage more than 20 powerful services, including Azure Site Recovery, Machine Configuration, and Azure Monitor, as well as Windows Server features such as Azure Website Restoration and Best Practices Assessment. These tools facilitate centralized management and modernization of administrative processes across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge ecosystems.
Fostering seamless development cycles with Arc’s Kubernetes integration: Streamlined deployments, accelerated innovation.
Microsoft’s adaptive cloud strategy provides options to simplify leveraging cloud-native improvements and driving innovation in contemporary infrastructure, empowering builders.
Builders must navigate a significant hurdle: ensuring that building systems remain reliable and functioning optimally, even in the event of disrupted or intermittent community connectivity. A key component of this resolution is the newly introduced feature, currently available in preview form. Azure Container Storage enables developers to build containerized applications that operate uninterrupted across environments, with seamless data access regardless of storage location or network connectivity. By synchronizing data seamlessly across native storage and cloud environments upon reconnection, developers can rest assured that their edge configurations are consistently updated, allowing for robust and adaptable solutions to flourish.
The newly developed permits enables groups to efficiently process and assimilate enormous amounts of data, thereby facilitating rapid discovery and pinpointing of potential issues. This streamlined knowledge pipeline is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency and seamlessly deploying modern cloud-native applications across dispersed environments.
As software scales across cloud infrastructures, data centers, and edge computing environments, safety considerations become increasingly intricate. Kubernetes clusters benefit from a robust solution for managing sensitive information, featuring capabilities akin to automatic secret rotation for bolstered security. This cutting-edge cloud safeguard approach ensures the integrity of confidential data across Linux and Windows environments, delivering a reliable and scalable means of securing applications and workloads.
Coles operates more than 1,800 stores across Australia, including over 850 Coles Supermarkets locations. Committed to delivering effortless shopping experiences for millions of customers across both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce channels, the retailer remains deeply invested in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and computer vision. Coles leverages cutting-edge AI models to train and refine their applications, subsequently deploying them in-store. By capitalizing on Azure’s flexible and scalable cloud architecture, the organization successfully accelerated its time-to-market for deploying applications to customers, achieving a remarkable sixfold increase in speed.
The future of food retail.
Unlocking the Power of Unified Knowledge: Edge-to-Cloud Insights for Artificial Intelligence
According to a recent Forrester survey sponsored by Microsoft, findings indicate that, currently, nearly half (46%) of the data gathered by companies is being transmitted to the cloud, with expectations suggesting this figure will surge to 68% within just two years. With Azure Arc, organisations can effectively manage and safeguard connected assets across dispersed environments, thereby ensuring data integrity at every level?
The Generalized Architecture (GA) significantly boosts this capability by streamlining the approach to aggregating, governing, and processing intelligence from Internet of Things devices. Furthermore, the platform’s Global Analytics enables seamless ingestions of alerts from various sources for transformative processing, real-time visualization, proactive monitoring, AI-driven insights, and immediate actionability directly within the cloud infrastructure. This integration combines Material’s existing insights and analytics tools with OneLake and Power BI to create a more comprehensive suite of capabilities. Together, these firms enable organizations to harness the full potential of AI across all their dispersed assets.
As a global leader in outdoor products, Husqvarna specializes in equipment for forestry, parks, gardens, and backyards, as well as tools and diamond instruments for the solar industry. To drive success, Husqvarna aims to nearly double its existing network of connected devices, boost robotic garden mower sales by 100%, and expand its electric offerings’ market share, necessitating a robust, globally coordinated supply chain to support these ambitious objectives. Husqvarna envisions Azure IoT Operations as a foundational component of its platform, unlocking new capabilities that enable the construction of a data-driven, global supply chain and facilitate process enhancements previously challenging to achieve. By leveraging global knowledge, Husqvarna can optimize its supply chain, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency in delivering products to customers, ultimately fostering a more sustainable future.
Collaborating to revolutionize infrastructure through integrated solutions?
Microsoft envisions the future of distributed infrastructure by seamlessly integrating cloud and customer environments, revolutionizing the concept of cloud infrastructure. Microsoft’s approach seamlessly blends customer environments with cloud services, enabling organizations to optimize their digital operations across datacenters, edge locations, and public clouds.
A cornerstone of this visionary plan is the innovative integration of. Azure Native is a cloud-enabled infrastructure that seamlessly extends native AI-powered capabilities to on-premises environments, bridging the gap between the cloud and edge computing. The resolution enables organisations to manage workloads demanding high-performance, low-latency, and robust efficiency, while leveraging the cloud’s scalability and built-in resilience.
Azure Native’s architecture is designed to facilitate near-real-time processing capabilities, enabling customers to respond swiftly to changing business needs while also addressing decentralized or disconnected scenarios that demand robust regulatory compliance solutions.
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has rapidly evolved from a modest regional smelter to become a vertically integrated global leader in the production of high-quality aluminum, serving over 400 customers across diverse sectors such as aerospace, automotive, and consumer goods, solidifying its position as the world’s largest premium aluminum producer. To streamline its on-site operations and expand its cloud-based capabilities, EGA is focusing on a strategy to migrate one-third of its server infrastructure to Azure, while another third will run in a hybrid model or at the edge using Azure Native, seamlessly integrating the benefits of private and public clouds from a single provider.
By leveraging cloud capabilities within their operational realms, EGA achieved a remarkable 10-13 fold acceleration in AI response time, significantly reduced latency, and secured an impressive 86% cost savings linked to AI-driven image and video recognition processes, as opposed to developing an AI model independently on the edge.
As I continue to shape the digital landscape of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), I am reminded that innovation is key to our success.
Join forces with us to pioneer a new era in adaptive cloud innovation?
As Microsoft pursues its adaptive cloud strategy, its focus extends beyond addressing today’s challenges alone. Organizations must equip themselves to excel in a future fueled by artificial intelligence. As we drive innovation forward, we’re eager to collaborate with you in reimagining the possibilities within dispersed ecosystems.
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