Microsoft continues to be a leader in Gartner’s Cloud IaaS MQ – For the fifth consecutive year, Microsoft is recognized as a leader in Gartner’s IaaS Magic Quadrent. Check out this post for the details and a link to not only this report, but a long list of other Gartner MQs that place Microsoft in the leader’s quadrant.
Now in preview
Create enterprise subscription experience in Azure portal public preview – Learn about the public preview of a fully-integrated create subscription experience in the Azure portal for Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) subscriptions. Previously, EA subscriptions were created in a separate EA portal.
Azure AD Authentication for Azure Storage now in public preview – This post announces the preview of Azure AD Authentication for Azure Blobs and Queues, which is one of the features most requested by enterprise customers looking to simplify how they control access to their data as part of their security or compliance needs. It is available in all public regions of Azure.