Category: AI + Machine Learning • 4 min read
We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of small open models with the capability of 10 times larger models, developed by Microsoft and optimized for Azure AI.
Published • 2 min read
One of the biggest security and compliance requirement for enterprise customers is to encrypt their data at rest using their own encryption key. This is even more critical in a post-GDPR world. Today, we’re announcing the public preview of Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for data at rest in Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight.
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning
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Insurance companies that sell life, health, and property and casualty insurance are using machine learning (ML) to drive improvements in customer service, fraud detection, and operational efficiency. For example, the Azure cloud is helping insurance brands save time and effort using machine vision to assess damage in accidents, identify anomalies in billing, and more.
Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics
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SQL Data Warehouse is happy to announce that Striim now fully supports SQL Data Warehouse as a target for Striim for Azure. Striim enables continuous non-intrusive performant ingestion of all your enterprise data from a variety of sources in real time.
Published • 16 min read
Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Internet of Things
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In the past two years since PyTorch’s first release in October 2016, we’ve witnessed the rapid and organic adoption of the deep learning framework among academia, industry, and the AI community at large.
Published • 4 min read
Office 365 holds a wealth of information about how people work and how they interact and collaborate with each other, and this valuable asset enables intelligent applications to derive value and to optimize organizational productivity.
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You know what they say: “Time is money.” For many workloads in the capital markets space, time accuracy is money.
Analytics, Announcements, Azure HDInsight
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HDInsight team is excited to reveal general availability (GA) of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive Query clusters in HDI 3.6. When enterprise customers share clusters between multiple employees, Hadoop admins must ensure those employees have the right set of accesses and permissions to perform big data operations.
Azure Monitor, Management and Governance
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In today’s world of modern applications, metrics play a key role in helping you understand how your apps, services, and the infrastructure they run on, are performing. They can help you detect, investigate, and diagnose issues when they crop up. To provide you this level of visibility Azure has made resource-level platform metrics available via Azure Monitor.
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Today we are extending Try Cosmos DB for 30 days free! Try Cosmos DB allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign-up required and at no charge, for 30 days with ability to renew unlimited times.