Written by Erin Chapple, Corporate Vice President, Azure Core Product and Design
With more than 1 million views of our fireside chats, we’re inspired by the tremendous opportunity to connect those within the community—customers, partners, and technology enthusiasts everywhere. Whether you engage in the live ask-the-experts sessions, watch the deep-dive skilling videos, or join us for fireside chats—the Azure team and I are delighted and humbled by your participation and enthusiasm for Inside Azure for IT.
In our third episode, we talk about some of our Linux and open source-related partnerships, product innovation, and initiatives, plus how that helps customers and communities. To those who think of Azure as “mostly Windows cloud,” it may be surprising to learn that more than 60 percent of Azure customer compute cores are Linux-based, and that Linux virtual machine (VM) cores are growing faster than those based on Windows.
My own career has mirrored Microsoft’s evolution of how we think about, contribute to, and consume Linux and open source. For example, I’ve gone from being solely focused on Windows and Windows Server, to learning how to contribute upstream to make Linux run great on Hyper-V, to now, where open source and Linux are core to the development of Azure.
In this episode, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes peek at Microsoft’s approach, and how we've brought together customers, partners, and communities to innovate and collaborate across open-source technologies.
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