Today at its Ignite 2019 conference, Microsoft announced a series of tools to expand the security capabilities of its Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms.
First on the list is Azure Arc, which builds on Azure Stack and aims to extend Azure management and security to any infrastructure. Available in preview starting today, the new product extends Azure management capabilities to Linux and Windows servers, and Kubernetes clusters on infrastructures across on-premises, multi-cloud and edge.
Azure Arc aims to provide a unified management solution for multiple environments using capabilities such as Azure Resource Manager, Azure Shell, Azure Portal, API, and Azure Policy. It also allows developers to build containerized apps with the tools of their choice, while IT teams are assured that apps are deployed, configured, and managed uniformly.
The tool also enables Azure data services anywhere, to provide customers with insights in real time. Taking advantage of artificial intelligence, it includes the ability to run software such as Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Hyperscale on any infrastructure.
Furthermore, the company is releasing Azure Arc enabled API Management, to provide organizations with the ability to manage APIs across any environment, including hybrid and multicloud.
In addition to the general availability of the Da_v4 and Das_v4 Azure virtual machine series for general purpose workloads, Microsoft also announced the public preview of Serial Console for Azure Government Cloud, which delivers a text based console for Windows VM and VM scale set instances.
Starting today, Microsoft is making Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure generally available with new features, such as increased memory and Intel Software Guard Extensions, along with support for large VMs (up to 12 TBs) and O ..
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