founder Ray Ozzie one of his 5 direct reports as one of 3 chief technology officers. Ozzie met with Amitabh Srivastava, which let Srivastava change course. They convinced Dave Cutler to postpone his retirement and their teams developed a cloud operating system. October 2008 (PDC LA) – Announced the Windows Azure Platform. March 2009 – Announced SQL Azure Relational Database. November 2009 – Updated Windows Azure CTP, Enabled full trust, PHP, Java, CDN CTP and more. February 1, 2010 – Windows Azure Platform commercially available. June 2010 – Windows Azure Update, .NET Framework 4, OS Versioning, CDN, SQL Azure Update. October 2010 (PDC) – Platform enhancements, Windows Azure Connect, improved Dev / IT Pro Experience. December 2011 – Traffic manager, SQL Azure reporting, HPC scheduler. June 2012 – Websites, Virtual machines for Windows and Linux, Python SDK, new portal, locally redundant storage. April 2014 – Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure, ARM Portal introduced at Build 2014. July 2014 – Azure Machine Learning public preview. November 2014 – Outage affecting major websites including MSN.com. September 2015 – Azure Cloud Switch introduced as a cross-platform Linux distribution. Currently known as SONiC December, 2015 – Azure ARM Portal (codename "Ibiza") released. March, 2016 – Azure Service Fabric is Generally Available (GA) September 2017 – Microsoft Azure gets a new logo and a Manifesto July 16, 2018 – Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview September 24, 2018 – Microsoft Azure IoT Central is Generally Available (GA) October 10, 2018 – Microsoft joins the Linux-oriented group Open Invention Network. April 17, 2019 – Azure Front Door Service is now available. March 2020 – Microsoft said that there was a 775% increase in Microsoft Teams usage in Italy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company estimates there are now 44 million daily active users of Teams worldwide. Privacy Microsoft has stated that, per the USA Patriot Act, the US government could have access to the data even if the hosted company is not American and the data resides outside the USA. To manage privacy and security-related concerns, Microsoft has created a Microsoft Azure Trust Center, and Microsoft Azure has several of its services compliant with several compliance programs including ISO 27001:2005 and HIPAA. A full and current listing can be found on the Microsoft Azure Trust Center Compliance page. Of special note, Microsoft Azure has been granted JAB Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the U.S.