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Microsoft Ignite in a glance (Orladon, FL, 2017)

What a week! Last week of September was crazy from all the people that are working with Microsoft stack. The biggest Microsoft conference took place in Orlando, Florida. More than 25.000 people attended this year at Microsoft Ignite and as usually, it was an event will all the tickets sold out.


There were many announcement that makes Microsoft a strong player for today needs, but also there is a clear vision where they want to go. Not only this, but it seems that the road is already defined and clear.
The currents needs of the market are covered by Microsoft with Azure Stack, offering a good ground for hybrid solutions. Now we can use the core services of Microsoft Azure not only on Azure, but also on our on-premises infrastructure using Azure Stack. What is more interesting from devops and IT perspective is that you have the same experience, the same dashboard and you use the same scripts (no change is required).
Mixed reality and AI are now more closers to the fields. Many companies like Ford are working close together with Microsoft teams to make the next steps and redefined how you work and how you collaborate with others.
Many things are happening with Office 365. In comparison with the past years, now Office 365 is more than an online Word editor and SharePoint. Office 365 is becoming the central piece where companies managed emails, documents, projects and help them to communicate in a more natural and easy way.
This can be possible because Microsoft products and services like SQL Server and intelligent systems reached the right maturity level that enable them to crunch and find data inside hundreds of petabytes.
The biggest announcement was quantum computing, where Microsoft invested in the last 12 years a lot of resources and energy. It seems that we are close than ever to have first real quantum systems. To prepare the next generation of system on top of quantum computer, Microsoft is offering to their customers an emulator and a new programming language. This will help technical teams to better understand this new technology and how we should interact with it.


I’m glad that I participate at this conference not only as attendee, but also as a speaker. I delivered 3 sessions about Cosmos DB, IoT and Security.

See you next year, Igniters!

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