Starting around the 2nd half of 2015, Intune, which is part of Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), had begun its journey as the fastest growing business in the history of Microsoft. We started seeing signs of this rapid business growth result in a corresponding rapid increase in back end operations at scale. At the same time, we were also innovating across various areas of our service within Intune, in Azure, and other dependent areas. Balancing the innovation and rapid growth in a very short time was an interesting and difficult challenge we faced in Intune. We had some mitigations in place, but we wanted to be ahead of the curve in terms of scale and performance, and this pace in growth was somewhat of a wake up call to accelerate our journey to become a more mature and scalable globally distributed cloud services. Over the next few months, we embarked on making significant changes in the way we architected, operated, and ran our services.
This blog is a 4-part series that will describe Intune’s cloud services’ journey to become one of the most mature and scalable cloud service running on Azure. Today, we are one of the most mature services operating at high scale while constantly improving the 6 pillars of availability, reliability, performance, scale, security, and agility. The 4-part blog series is roughly divided into the following topics:nd half of 2015, Intune, which is part of Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), had begun its journey as the fastest growing business in the history of Microsoft. We started seeing signs of this rapid business growth result in a corresponding rapid increase in back end operations at scale. At the same time, we were also innovating across various areas of our service within Intune, in Azure, and other dependent areas.
Read more about it in the Enterprise Mobility + Security blog.