Microsoft Azure: SQL Server 2022, AI, New Hybrid, Multi-cloud Capabilities
Microsoft announced dozens of new features and upgrades to Azure, many of which are designed to help organizations manage their hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The company announced the preview of SQL Server 2022, which Microsoft calls the most Azure-enabled SQL Server release yet. It is designed to enable easier cloud integration with new disaster recover functionality for Azure Managed Instance and analytics over on-premises operational data with Synapse Link for SQL Server.
Microsoft also announced Azure Arc on VMWare vSphere and Azure Stack HCI, which allows customers on those systems to secure and govern existing virtual machines and Kubernetes with Azure Arc. Microsoft announced the preview of lifecycle management of VMs on such deployments on-premise from the Azure Portal. This allows customers migrating their on-premises deployment to Azure VMware solutions can also do lifecycle management of VMs from the Azure Portal.
In the way of artificial intelligence, the company announced the new Azure OpenAI Service, which Microsoft says allows access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. Initially available via invite only, the new Azure Cognitive Services will give customers access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 models along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy and other capabilities built into Azure.
Microsoft also announced the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server in more than 30 regions globally. According to Microsoft, the service for application developers is designed to give customers maximum control, flexibility and the ability to customize their MySQL database configuration.
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