Microsoft Azure’s defense in depth approach to cloud vulnerabilities

By Dustin Ward

Our digital world is changing, with more persistent, sophisticated, and driven cybercriminals. As risks increase and threats compound, trust is more important than ever. Customers need to be able to trust in the technology platforms they invest in to build and run their organizations. As one of the largest cloud service providers, we build trust by…

3 key cloud adoption trends in migrating and modernizing workloads

By Dustin Ward

In the past few years, organizations have weathered unprecedented change as they have had to adapt to macro-economic, political, and societal challenges. These challenges are not going away—the business outlook remains uncertain with ongoing concerns, including inflation, supply chain disruptions, and rising energy prices. Microsoft believes the best way to prepare for this uncertainty is…

Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech

By Dustin Ward

With Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services for Speech, customers can build voice-enabled apps confidently and quickly in more than 140 languages. We make it easy for customers to transcribe speech to text (STT) with high accuracy, produce natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, and translate spoken audio. In the past few years, we are inspired by the ways…

Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Narayan Annamalai, Partner PM Manager, Microsoft Azure. As cloud-native applications are experiencing astronomical growth, customers are constantly demanding to scale their Kubernetes and containerized deployments with rich feature sets for network security and observability and without degrading their network performance. With the above in mind, we are excited about this partnership to enhance…