Software — Azure — December 25th, 2024
Azure Boost DPU: Microsoft's New Silicon Solution for Enhanced Cloud Performance
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house DPU designed for efficient, low-power, data-centric workloads. According to the company, this single piece of silicon combines high-speed Ethernet and PCIe interfaces, network and storage engines, data accelerators, and security features into a fully programmable system on a chip.
December 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — December 10th, 2024
How to Automate Blob Deletion in Azure Storage Using PowerShell
Learn how to automate daily blob deletion in Azure storage accounts using PowerShell, effectively manage timestamped reports, and optimize storage efficiency.
December 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 21st, 2024
Azure Local: The Secret to Affordable Cloud Computing Anywhere
Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses light computing needs while maintaining cost-effectiveness, making it an attractive solution for a wide range of industries and applications.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 16th, 2024
Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database in Public Preview
Microsoft recently launched a public preview of native vector support for the Azure SQL Database. With this update, the database can now store and process vector embeddings directly within it.
November 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 15th, 2024
High-Level AI with Azure AI Services
This course focuses on leveraging Azure's high-level AI services to solve real-world business problems. You'll explore pre-built solutions for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), content moderation, and other Azure AI offerings, understanding their apps and trade-offs compared to custom-built solutions.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 12th, 2024
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to latency (the time it takes to constantly send data) and the costs associated with this.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 7th, 2024
Microsoft announces Azure Linux 3.0 for AKS preview
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Azure Linux 3.0 for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is now available as a preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 was made generally available a few months ago on GitHub; you can see the full release notes here.
November 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 5th, 2024
Microsoft Azure Cheat Sheet: Key Services & Commands Guide
The rise of cloud computing provides businesses the ability to quickly provision computing resources without the costly and laborious task of building data centers, and without the costs of running servers with unutilized capacity due to variable workloads.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 3rd, 2024
Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers
The network is probably still operational and likely acquiring new infrastructure
November 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 2nd, 2024
Microsoft confirms Azure Virtual Desktop black screen and Office app issues in Windows 10
Microsoft has updated the official Windows Health Dashboard website with a new known issue for those still rocking the good-old Windows 10. According to Microsoft, version 22H2 with recent updates may experience issues logging in to Azure Virtual Desktop and other problems.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 18th, 2024
Microsoft is terminating Azure OpenAI service for individual developers in China
Earlier this year, OpenAI stopped offering its products and services to developers in China. At that time, Microsoft said it would continue to offer its Azure OpenAI Service in China and would continue to provide access to eligible customers in the country via models deployed in regions outside of China. Since then, Microsoft's Azure OpenAI was the only way for developers to access OpenAI's latest models.
October 18th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 16th, 2024
Microsoft announces general availability of Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs
During last year's Ignite conference, Microsoft first revealed that it was working on an ARM processor named Microsoft Cobalt 100 for general-purpose computing workloads on the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft mentioned that the purpose of developing Cobalt 100 was to have an energy-efficient ARM chip for cloud-native offerings with an optimized performance-per-watt ratio in data centers.
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 13th, 2024
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution.
October 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 12th, 2024
Microsoft Azure is the first hyperscaler to have NVIDIA's Blackwell system with GB200
Back in March, NVIDIA announced the new NVIDIA Blackwell platform, which offers up to 25 times lower cost and energy consumption than its predecessor for large language model training. Major cloud providers and leading AI startups, including Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Tesla, and xAI, are expected to adopt Blackwell when it becomes available.
October 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 25th, 2024
Google accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations over Azure cloud platform
Complaint cites "steep penalties" for Microsoft customers using other providers.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Google files EU complaint over Microsoft cloud services
Google said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint against Microsoft at the European Commission, accusing its rival of "anticompetitive" licensing practices to force customers to use its cloud service.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems
The microservices architectural approach has become a core factor in building successful products. It was made possible by adopting advanced cloud technologies such as service mesh, containers, and serverless computing.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Simplifying Multi-Cloud Observability With Open Source
As cloud workloads become increasingly sophisticated, adopting an open-source and vendor-agnostic approach is key to streamlining organizational operations.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 19th, 2024
Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new failover type for Azure Storage with customer managed planned failover. This new failover type allows a storage account to failover while maintaining geo-redundancy, with no data loss or additional cost.
September 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 10th, 2024
Oracle-Microsoft 'Database@Azure' Service Getting Fabric, Sentinel Hooks
A year after it was first unveiled, the Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Oracle and Microsoft is getting significant new capabilities.
September 10th, 2024 — Source
We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?
Analyst suggests Redmond's internal distro may one day fly the coop
September 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 3rd, 2024
Workspaces in Azure API Management GA: Runtime Isolation and Federated Model of Managing APIs
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Workspaces in Azure API Management, a feature designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location. This allows them to easily view and modify all their API services in one place.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 2nd, 2024
Microsoft launches Mv3 High Memory virtual machines with improved price performance
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Mv3 (third version of M-series) High Memory (HM) virtual machines (VM) powered by 4th generation Intel Xeon processors (Sapphire Rapids) for customers of its Azure public cloud platform.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 27th, 2024
LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux
LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft has LinkedIn ditch CentOS for Azure Linux
According to a recent blog post, back in April 2024, LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) transitioned nearly all its servers, virtual machines, and containers to Azure Linux. This migration was a strategic move to modernize LinkedIn's compute stack and enhance its ability to serve over 1 billion users.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 21st, 2024
Azure Kubernetes Services Vulnerability Exposed Sensitive Information
A vulnerability in Azure Kubernetes Services could have allowed attackers to escalate privileges and access sensitive information on the clusters.
August 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 16th, 2024
Mandatory Multifactor Authentication for Azure Coming Soon
Starting in October, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication (MFA) for all Azure sign ins.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure will start pushing mandatory multi-factor authentication from October
Microsoft has announced that it will begin the first phase of its mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) push this October to help reduce the likelihood of account compromise attacks. Microsoft said that MFA can block more than 99.2% of these account compromise attacks, so the measure is mandatory.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 8th, 2024
Microsoft and Palantir partner to boost AI for U.S. national security
Microsoft and Palantir today announced an expanded partnership to bring cloud, AI, and analytics services to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. This new suite will allow critical national security missions to leverage Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms (AIP) in Microsoft's government and classified cloud environments.
August 8th, 2024 — Source
OpenAI's latest model GPT-4o-2024-08-06 now available on Microsoft Azure
Yesterday, OpenAI announced its newest frontier model, officially named GPT-4o-2024-08-06. This new model comes with Structured Outputs support in the API, which ensures that model-generated outputs will exactly match JSON Schemas provided by developers. Along with the Structured Outputs support, OpenAI also reduced the API usage price.
August 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — July 31st, 2024
'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage
A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation
July 31st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft: Yesterday's Azure and 365 server outage was caused by a DDoS attack ... at least at first
Denial of service was on the menu for Microsoft's server infrastructure.
July 31st, 2024 — Source
The cause of Microsoft's global cloud services outage revealed
Yesterday, Microsoft services connected to Azure experienced disruptions worldwide. We now know why: a targeted DDoS attack.
July 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — July 19th, 2024
Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change
Microsoft says an Azure configuration change caused a major Microsoft 365 outage on Thursday, affecting customers across the Central US region.
July 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 28th, 2024
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech services add more voices and more chat avatars
Microsoft has been adding more AI-based realistic voices for customers of its Azure AI Speech services over the past year. Today, the company announced it is offering those customers even more additions and improvements for AI voices.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 26th, 2024
High HTTP Scaling with Azure Functions Flex Consumption: Q&A with Thiago Almeida and Paul Batum
Microsoft has introduced a significant enhancement to its Azure Functions platform with the Flex Consumption plan, designed to handle high HTTP scale efficiently. This new plan supports customizable per-instance concurrency, allowing users to achieve high throughput while managing costs effectively. In practical tests, Azure Functions Flex demonstrated the ability to scale from zero to 32,000 requests per second (RPS) in just seven seconds.
June 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 20th, 2024
Inside today's Azure AI cloud data centers
At Build, Microsoft described how Azure is supporting large AI workloads today, with an inference accelerator, high-bandwidth connections, and tools for efficiency and reliability.
June 20th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 8th, 2024
Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
June 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 30th, 2024
General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
May 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 25th, 2024
Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Flex Consumption Plan for Azure Functions at Build
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the flex consumption plan for Azure Functions, which brings users fast and large elastic scale, instance size selection, private networking, and higher concurrency control.
May 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 23rd, 2024
Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Devs Can Now Sign Up for Private Preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure
During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft announced a private preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure, which lets developers use the AI pair programming tool in the cloud.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia
Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech lets Truecaller users create an AI assistant with their own voice
The assistant can screen calls for them.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Truecaller Is Partnering With Microsoft To Introduce A Voice Clone Feature To Answer Calls Using Azure AI's Personal Voice
Truecaller is a caller ID company that has recently partnered with Microsoft to bring a truly customized experience for its users with the help of an AI assistant. The company will use Microsoft's Azure AI to create a digital clone of the user's voice to help get back to calls using the AI-generated version of the voice. This new personalized voice feature gives us another glimpse of the AI advancements and the role it will play in how we communicate.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source or Source or Source
Software — Azure — May 21st, 2024
AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators Power Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Workloads and New Azure ND MI300X V5 VMs
Today at Microsoft Build, AMD showcased its latest end-to-end compute and software capabilities for Microsoft customers and developers. By using AMD solutions such as AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators, ROCm™ open software, Ryzen™ AI processors and software, and Alveo™ MA35D media accelerators, Microsoft is able to provide a powerful suite of tools for AI-based deployments across numerous markets.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available, Sporting New Models Both Big and Small
Azure AI Studio is now generally available, emerging from preview on day one of the Microsoft Build 2024 developer conference.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features
At Build 2024 Microsoft also announced that the Azure AI Studio toolkit for building generative AI applications is generally available.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure gets 'Models as a Service,' enhanced RAG offerings for enterprise generative AI
The annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, saw a slew of upgrades to Azure AI Services - with many in preview already.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Build 2024: What GPT-4o can do on Azure AI
GPT-4o is now available on Azure AI.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft releases upgrades to Azure AI Speech at Build 2024
The company announced a slew of improved features to Azure AI services that support building with generative AI.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms
Microsoft"s big focus at this year"s Build conference is generative AI. And to that end, the tech giant announced a series of updates to its platforms for building generative AI-powered apps and experiences: Azure AI Studio and Copilot Studio.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft will make Khan Academy"s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift
Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 17th, 2024
Microsoft to start enforcing Azure multi-factor authentication in July
Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources.
May 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 7th, 2024
Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
May 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 3rd, 2024
Microsoft to law enforcement: No using Azure OpenAI for facial recognition
Cops can't use its services to find suspects, body cams and phone footage included.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 1st, 2024
Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure.
May 1st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 28th, 2024
Reliable Web App Pattern Now Optimizes Azure Migration with Enhanced Infrastructure and Security
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Reliable Web App (RWA) Pattern for dotnet. This update focuses on improving production infrastructure and network security in response to user feedback, making Azure migration easier for .NET web apps.
April 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 26th, 2024
Microsoft Azure Edge Infrastructure At Hannover Messe 2024
Hannover Messe 2024 represents a significant event in the global industrial sector, serving as the world's largest industrial trade fair. Microsoft's participation, particularly the Azure Stack team, highlights their contributions to integrated manufacturing solutions through the Microsoft Cloud. These solutions facilitate secure connections among personnel, assets, and operational processes, enhancing organizational resilience.
April 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 24th, 2024
Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications.
April 24th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 11th, 2024
Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.
April 11th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 5th, 2024
Cohere launches new Command R+ LLM on Azure first
Despite a long-standing partnership with Oracle, Cohere has decided to make its new model available to Microsoft customers first.
April 5th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft's Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size
The increased capacity comes at no additional cost.
April 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — April 4th, 2024
Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
April 4th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 29th, 2024
Azure AI Gets Security, Anti-Hallucination Features
Microsoft this week gave a nod to Azure developers looking for more scalable ways to build accurate and secure generative AI applications on its cloud.
March 29th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 28th, 2024
Microsoft Azure Experts On Tap for Chicago Developer Conference Keynotes
On its Developer Blogs site Microsoft today extended an invitation to join company experts at an upcoming developer conference exploring the latest .NET Microsoft Platform developments.
March 28th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service now offers real time detection of abusive requests
Over the past few months, we have seen stories about how some users have succeeded in creating content via generative AI services that get around content guardrails. Perhaps the biggest example happened earlier this year when explicit deepfake images of pop artist Taylor Swift made their way to social networks.
March 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 27th, 2024
Copilot in Azure SQL Database in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.
March 27th, 2024 — Source
It's a 'Go' for Microsoft Azure Developers
Microsoft embraces many programming languages beyond its own C#, TypeScript, F# and so on, lately boosting its support for Go, the popular language developed by Google.
March 27th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft unveils Copilot for Azure SQL Database
AI assistant available in private preview provides natural language to SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.
March 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 22nd, 2024
A Deep Dive Into CDC With Azure Data Factory
Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server is a powerful feature designed to track and capture changes made to data within a database.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 15th, 2024
Azure OpenAI's “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially made On Your Data generally available in Azure OpenAI Service. This feature enables users to harness the full power of OpenAI models, including GPT-4, and seamlessly integrate the advanced features of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model with their data.
March 15th, 2024 — Source
Azure Stream Analytics Upsert Operation Using Cosmos DB
Upsert operations allow you to update existing records or insert new ones based on specific criteria within your streaming pipelines.
March 15th, 2024 — Source
Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco
The open-source cloud-native runtime security tool is now a graduated CNCF project. Is it time to use it in your Kubernetes applications?
March 15th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 14th, 2024
After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it's removing Azure 'egress' data transfer fees — but with caveats
The European Data Act says cloud providers must make it easier to switch
March 14th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft and Oracle expand partnership to satisfy global demand for Oracle Database@Azure
Powerful cloud database service now in Germany and announcing five additional cloud regions for a total of 15 regions planned this year
March 14th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 6th, 2024
Microsoft has started referring to its CBL-Mariner distro as Azure Linux
While it came as a bit of a surprise when it first became public, it has been known for some time that Microsoft has its own Linux distro called CBL-Mariner. The name has been questioned by many, and it is in the process of changing.
March 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — March 4th, 2024
Veeam Unveils Veeam Data Cloud Built On Microsoft Azure
Veeam Software has introduced Veeam Data Cloud, a cloud backup and recovery solution built on Microsoft Azure. The platform combines the reliability of Veeam's backup technology with the accessibility and convenience of a cloud service. Today, Veeam Data Cloud offers backup-as-a-service (BaaS) for both Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, providing resilience and leveraging advanced data protection and security technologies in a seamless user experience.
March 4th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — February 21st, 2024
Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement
And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle
February 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — February 19th, 2024
.NET Aspire Preview 3: Expanded Component Support with Azure OpenAI, MySQL, CosmosDB, Kafka and More
Last week, Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire - third preview. Preview 3 brings changes including UI improvements to the dashboard, and new component support for Azure OpenAI, Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, CosmosDB & Orleans, and many more.
February 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — February 14th, 2024
Leveraging Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core Projects: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses
The integration of Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core projects offers a compelling blend of efficiency, scalability, and performance.
February 14th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — February 12th, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS): A Comprehensive Suite of Cloud Services
This article will examine the leading cloud services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their advantages for businesses.
February 12th, 2024 — Source
Aurora versus RDS: How To Choose the Right AWS Database for 2024
Highlighting key differences, Aurora is cloud-native with serverless support, while RDS offers superior customization and supports more database engines.
February 12th, 2024 — Source
GCP to AWS Migration: Why and How Does It Benefit Your Business?
Explore why businesses switch from GCP to AWS. Discover strategic benefits like enhanced scalability and surpassing technical concerns.
February 12th, 2024 — Source
Maximizing Cloud Networking Efficiency
This article offers a comprehensive exploration of AWS Global Accelerator and AWS Direct Connect. AWS Global Accelerator might just be the hero your applications deserve
February 12th, 2024 — Source
On-Premises Azure Virtual Desktops Have (Finally) GA'ed!
On February 1, 2024, Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI with Azure Virtual Desktop is GA! Like many others, we have waited years for Microsoft to support on-prem Azure virtual desktops.
February 12th, 2024 — Source
Striking the Right Balance: Navigating Cloud Repatriation and On-Premises Dynamics
This article proposes a strategic solution that optimally balances the advantages of both cloud and on-premises data centers.
February 12th, 2024 — Source
TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management introduced TLS 1.3
Software — Azure — February 1st, 2024
Code your infrastructure with Azure Automation
The cloud and automation go hand in hand. Use Azure Automation and runbooks to deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services.
February 1st, 2024 — Source
How To Pass the Azure Solutions Architect Associate Examination
In this article, we'll guide you through the certification exam, offering tips, resources, and a study plan to help you succeed.
February 1st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — January 26th, 2024
How To Back Up and Restore Azure SQL Databases
An organization needs to back up SQL Azure database records for data protection. Discover how to back up Azure SQL databases efficiently.
January 26, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — January 22nd, 2024
Azure AI Studio: A nearly complete toolbox for AI development
Azure AI Studio, while still in preview, checks most of the boxes for a generative AI application builder, with support for prompt engineering, RAG, agent building, and low-code or no-code development.
January 22, 2024 — Source
Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages
Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers
January 22, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — January 12th, 2024
Arc-Enabled Servers Run Command Public Preview Feature: Remote Management for Various Environments
Microsoft has recently announced a significant preview feature related to Arc-enabled servers, introducing the Run Command. This feature allows customers to manage Azure Arc-enabled servers remotely and securely.
January 12, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — January 9th, 2024
Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI's potential to supercharge science
Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they've discovered a way to reduce the lithium content in batteries by as much as 70%, using a process that shows the potential for artificial intelligence to significantly accelerate all sorts of scientific research.
January 9, 2024 — Source
Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work
Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum Elements service to whittle down millions of potential new battery materials to only a few — with one of them now in the prototype stage.
January 9, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — January 8th, 2024
A Comprehensive Guide on Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions
Transform your development process with Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions. Enhance collaboration, automate workflows, and accelerate software delivery.
January 8, 2024 — Source
Mastering Scalability and Performance: A Deep Dive Into Azure Load Balancing Options
Efficient and scalable load balancing is pivotal for ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Explore an overview of Azure's load-balancing options.
January 8, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — December 22nd, 2023
Microsoft launches private preview of Azure AI Health Bot Copilot for healthcare companies
One of the businesses that could be changed greatly by the use of generative AI in the workplace is the healthcare industry. Microsoft has already been working to provide generative AI services to businesses in that field. In August, the company announced a partnership with healthcare technology company Epic that includes features like note summarization for doctors and more.
December 22, 2023 — Source