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Today, we're excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Azure NetApp Files, the industry’s first bare-metal cloud file storage and data management service. Azure NetApp Files is an Azure first-party service for migrating and running the most demanding enterprise file-workloads in the cloud including databases, SAP, and high-performance computing applications with no code changes. Today’s milestone is the result of deep investment by both companies to provide a great experience for our customers through a service that’s unique in the industry.

Since launching in preview mode, several Fortune 100 enterprises across the world have provided valuable feedback that helped us enrich the service.

"We wanted an on-premise like performance for our reservoir simulation and analysis software. We were thrilled to see Azure NetApp Files exceeding our expectations with an over 5x performance increase. Most importantly, the massive scale-up/down capability of Azure NetApp Files now allows for pure cloud-based consumption of both capacity AND performance,” said Juan Pedro Brett, Digital Transformation Engineer, E&P at Repsol.

Azure NetApp Files represents the culmination of a deep partnership between Microsoft and NetApp, combining NetApp’s proven and industry-leading ONTAP technology with the scale, reach, and enterprise capabilities of Azure.

“Azure NetApp Files is the most significant proof-point of NetApp’s commitment to accelerate our customer’s digital transformation, said Anthony Lye, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud BU at NetApp. “We have partnered extensively with Microsoft across engineering, sales, and marketing to help customers benefit from the availability of our industry leading storage and data management technology on Azure. The general availability of Azure NetApp Files is also a fantastic moment to thank our customers for their enormous interest and feedback that has helped shaped this service.”

Read more about NetApp’s perspective on this announcement on the NetApp blog.

Deep integration of NetApp’s industry leading ONTAP storage and data management technology into Azure provides unique value to our customers in several ways:

Seamless Azure experience

Azure NetApp Files is a fully managed cloud service with full Azure portal integration and access via REST API and Azure SDKs, and soon via Azure CLI and PowerShell. It’s sold and supported exclusively by Microsoft. Customers can seamlessly migrate and run applications in the cloud without worrying about procuring or managing storage infrastructure. Additionally, customers can purchase Azure NetApp Files and get support through existing Azure agreements, with no up-front or separate term agreement.

Power of NetApp ONTAP

NetApp’s ONTAP systems serve hundreds of thousands of customers and has earned the trust of enterprise organizations over decades. The technology provides proven protocol support, including support for NFSv3 and SMB 3.1. It enables powerful data management with snapshots of datasets, high availability, and can achieve sub-millisecond latency.

Advanced security for business-critical data

Azure NetApp Files is built and operated with Azure’s industry-leading standards and processes for security, and benefits from the multi-layered security provided by Microsoft across its physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations. Azure NetApp Files provides FIPS-140-2-compliant data encryption at rest, role-based access control (RBAC), Active Directory authentication (enabled for SMB), and export policies for network-based access control.

Support for hybrid scenarios

Azure NetApp Files enables easy migration of data across on-premises and cloud infrastructures using Cloud Sync, a NetApp service for rapid, security-enhanced data synchronization. This simplifies lift and shift and DevOps scenarios with capabilities like instantaneous snapshot, restore, and Active Directory integration (for SMB) that work the same way in the cloud and on premises. Integrated data replication and backup will be available in the near future. Learn more about Cloud Sync.

Get started with Azure NetApp Files

You can request onboarding to Azure NetApp Files by submitting an online request or by reaching out to your Microsoft representative.

We will continue to strongly partner with NetApp and look forward to hearing your feedback on Azure NetApp Files. You can email us at ANFFeedback@microsoft.com or share your ideas and suggestions for Azure Storage on our feedback forum.
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28. Mai 2019

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Azure.Source – Volume 84

Now available

All U.S. Azure regions now approved for FedRAMP High impact level

We’re now sharing our ability to provide Azure public services that meet U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level and extend FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) to all of our Azure public regions in the United States. Achieving FedRAMP High means that both Azure public and Azure Government data centers and services meet the demanding requirements of FedRAMP High, making it easier for more federal agencies to benefit from the cost savings and rigorous security of the Microsoft Commercial Cloud.

Now in preview

Drive higher utilization of Azure HDInsight clusters with autoscale

We are excited to share the preview of the Autoscale feature for Azure HDInsight. This feature enables enterprises to become more productive and cost-efficient by automatically scaling clusters up or down based on the load or a customized schedule.

Announcing the preview of Windows Server containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes is taking the app development world by storm. Earlier this month, we shared that the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was the fastest growing compute service in Azure’s history. Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for the latest versions, 1.13.5 and 1.14.0. With this, Windows Server containers can now be deployed and orchestrated in AKS enabling new paths to migrate and modernize Windows Server applications in Azure.

Optimize price-performance with compute auto-scaling in Azure SQL Database serverless

Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike – especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. To help address these challenges, we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure SQL Database serverless. SQL Database serverless (preview) is a new compute tier that optimizes price-performance and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage. Line-of-business applications, dev/test databases, content management, and e-commerce systems are just some examples across a range of applications that often fit the usage pattern ideal for SQL Database serverless.

Visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service

During Microsoft Build we announced the preview of the visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service. This new drag-and-drop workflow capability in Azure Machine Learning service simplifies the process of building, testing, and deploying machine learning models for customers who prefer a visual experience to a coding experience. This capability brings the familiarity of what we already provide in our popular Azure Machine Learning Studio with significant improvements to ease the user experience.

Technical content

Kubernetes - from the beginning, Part I, Basics, Deployment and Minikube

Kubernetes is a BIG topic. In this blog series, Chris Noring tackles the basics. Part 1 covers: Why Kubernetes and orchestration in general; talking through Minikube, simple deploy example; cluster and basic commands; deploying an app; and concepts and troubleshooting of pods and nodes.

Introduction to AzureKusto

This post is to announce the availability of AzureKusto, the R interface to Azure Data Explorer (internally codenamed “Kusto”), a fast, fully managed data analytics service from Microsoft. It is available from CRAN, or you can install the development version from GitHub.

Microsoft Azure for spoiled people

In this article, the author walks you through the easiest possible way to set up a Vue.js CLI-built web app on Azure with continuous integration via GitHub.

Azure IoT Central and MXChip Hands-on Lab

This hands-on lab covers creating an Azure IoT Central application, connecting an MXChip IoT DevKit device to your Azure IoT Central application, and setting up a device template.

Azure shows

A new way to try .NET

Learning a programming language is becoming a fundamental aspect of education across the world. We're always looking for new and interesting ways to teach programming to learners at all levels. From Microsoft Build 2019, we had Maria Naggaga come on to show us the Try .NET project. She shows us how this simple tool will allow us to create interactive documentation, workshops, and other interesting learning experiences.

Xamarin.Forms 101: Dynamic resources

Let's take a step back in a new mini-series that I like to call Xamarin.Forms 101. In each episode we will walk through a basic building block of Xamarin.Forms to help you build awesome cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET. This week we will look at how to use dynamic resources to change the value of a resource while the application is running.

Cosmos DB data in a smart contract with Logic Apps

We show an IoT use case that highlights how to leverage the power of Cosmos DB to manipulate IoT data within a Cosmos DB and use that data in smart contracts via the Ethereum Logic App connector.

ARM templates and Azure policy

Cynthia talks with Satya Vel on the latest ARM template updates including an enhanced template export experience, best practices for ARM clients, and new capabilities that are now available on ARM templates.

Industries and partners

Securing the pharmaceutical supply chain with Azure IoT

You’re responsible for overseeing the transportation of a pallet of medicine halfway around the world. Drugs will travel from your pharmaceutical company’s manufacturing outbound warehouse in central New Jersey to third-party logistics firms, distributors, pharmacies, and ultimately, patients. Each box in that pallet – no bigger than the box that holds the business cards on your desk – contains very costly medicine, the product of 10 years of research and R&D spending. But there are several big catches. Read on to see what they are and how Azure IoT helps overcome them.

How you can use IoT to power Industry 4.0 innovation

IoT is ushering in an exciting—and sometimes exasperating—time of innovation. Adoption isn’t easy, so it’s important to hold a vision of the promise of Industry 4.0 in mind as you get ready for this next wave of business. This post is the fourth in a four-part series designed to help companies maximize their ROI on IoT.
Quelle: Azure