Microsoft announced several new features for Azure at TechEd including:
- Multi-site virtual network connectivity that allows up to 10 on-premises sites to connect to a single Azure virtual network.
- Cross-region virtual network connectivity enabling high availability and disaster recovery across Azure regions.
- Instance-level public IP addresses so each Azure virtual machine can have its own public IP.
- Reserved public IP addresses that can be moved between cloud services and remain under the customer's control.
- Azure RemoteApp for delivering Windows applications from Azure to any device, and Azure Files for exposing file shares in Azure Storage through SMB.