Microsoft introduces preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Today we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework, a hosted version of the Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) which leverages the isolation and attestation capabilities of Trusted Execution Environments provided by Azure confidential computing. The framework design decouples node provisioning and operation from network and application governance, making it possible for the solution provider to maintain the set of nodes executing the transactions, without having any access to their contents.Enhanced API Developer Experience with the Microsoft-Postman partnership
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have emerged as the foundational technology powering application modernization. As developers move to modern applications and embrace an API-first world, an easy-to-use API management platform is the need of the hour. At Microsoft, we are on a mission to build a comprehensive and reliable API management platform that’s enabling developers to streamline and secure APIs at scale. Today, at Microsoft Ignite, the Azure API Management team is excited to announce our partnership with Postman, a leading API testing and development platform used by 20M+ developers worldwide. This partnership is aimed at both simplifying API testing and monitoring using the Postman platform for Azure API developers and making the Azure platform readily available to deploy APIs for Postman developers. “This announcement is great news for organizations that recognize APIs as fundamental business assets critical to digital transformation,” said Abhijit Kane, Postman co-founder. “By uniting the world’s top API platform and a leading cloud provider, our two companies have taken a significant step in giving customers the comprehensive set of tools they need for accelerating the API lifecycle.” Boost developer productivity and achieve faster time to market with the Azure API Management and Postman Integrated platform These integrations provide developers all the support they need to test their APIs on Postman and deploying them back on Azure. It takes away unnecessary friction and enables developers to spend more time on writing and shipping software. Let’s take a closer look at how Azure API Management platform and Postman platform integrate to offer developers a fast path to build, test, deploy and iterate on APIs. Test Azure APIs faster with an integrated Postman platform Azure API developers have instant access to the Postman API testing, monitoring, and development platform for rapid iteration on API changes. The integration support includes: Postman-initiated import from Azure API Management with the ability to import OpenAPI definitions from Azure API Management Azure API Management-initiated export of APIs into Postman using “Run in Postman” Accelerate the path to deployment for Postman tested APIs on Azure Once the APIs are designed, tested and ready to go, the integration makes it easy to deploy them on Azure. The integration support includes: Export of OpenAPI definitions from Postman to Azure API Management With over a million APIs published on Azure API Management platform today - it is a battle-hardened, production ready, and highly scaled platform that stretches from on-premises to multi-cloud. Over the past few years, Azure API Management platform has expanded to support every stage of the API lifecycle - enhancing the overall experience for API developers, consumers, operators, and policymakers. Postman partnership is making this even more frictionless, as Smit Patel, head of partnerships at Postman, said, “We’re very proud because this is Postman’s first bidirectional product alliance with a major cloud provider. Aligning with a cloud leader like Microsoft is terrific for our mutual customers and also boosts Postman’s status as the enterprise grade solution for the API-first world.” The Azure API Management team welcomes Postman to the Microsoft partner ecosystem, and together we look forward to enabling our developers embrace an API-first culture to deliver innovations faster, create new revenue streams, and generate value for their end users. Check out Azure integration docs and Postman integration docs for more details. To learn more about this news, read Postman’s press release and Postman’s blog.What's new for Azure Stack HCI at Microsoft Ignite 2022
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2022, we’re announcing new ways that Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI can help you operate hybrid seamlessly, including a new hybrid benefit for Software Assurance customers, public preview 2 of Azure Arc-enabled VM management, the general availability of version 22H2 packed with improvements, big changes for Azure Kubernetes Service, and an exciting surprise. Did somebody say hardware?Azure Kubernetes Service Microsoft Ignite announcements
When we talk to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers about the adoption of Kubernetes, two focus areas come up just about every time: the challenges of running at scale and the ongoing desire to improve their security posture. At Microsoft Ignite 2022, we announced a number of new features for AKS to help you operate your Kubernetes clusters and workloads at the scale you need, and we’ve continued to innovate in the open to improve the security posture and landscape, providing a seamless, and secure platform for your applications.
General availability of SAP CDC capabilities for Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
Customers use SAP systems for their business-critical operations. Today, customers want to be able to combine their SAP data with non-SAP data for their analytics needs. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is an industry-leading data integration service which enables customers to ingest data from diverse data sources (e.g., multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premises), transform data at scale, and more. Azure Data Factory (ADF) works seamlessly to combine data and prepare it at cloud-scale. Customers are using ADF to ingest data from different SAP data sources (e.g., SAP ECC, SAP Hana, SAP Table, SAP BW Open Hub, SAP BW via MDX, SAP Cloud for Customers), and combining them with data from other operational stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Azure SQL family, and more). This enables customers to gain deep insights from both SAP and non-SAP data. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of SAP CDC support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.
