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.
Azure AI Metrics Advisor, Best practices, Management and Governance
Published • 4 min read
There’s a lot you can do with Azure. But whether you’re modernizing your IT environment, building next-generation apps, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, or deploying any of a million other solutions, there are foundational habits that can help you succeed.
Serverless, Thought leadership
Published • 6 min read
As part of the AI for Earth team, I work with our partners and other researchers inside Microsoft to develop new ways to use machine learning and other AI approaches to solve global environmental challenges. In this post, we highlight a sample project of using Azure infrastructure for training a deep learning model to gain insight from geospatial data.
Azure SQL Database, Best practices, Databases
Published • 7 min read
In this blogpost, you will learn how Azure SQL Database intelligent performance feature Intelligent Insights has successfully helped a customer troubleshoot a hard to find 6-month intermittent database performance issue in a single day only.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Compute, Containers, Thought leadership
Published • 4 min read
Choosing the right type of hardware for deep learning tasks is a widely discussed topic. An obvious conclusion is that the decision should be dependent on the task at hand and based on factors such as throughput requirements and cost.
Announcements, Azure Pipelines, DevOps
Published • 2 min read
With the introduction of Azure DevOps today, we’re offering developers a new CI/CD service called Azure Pipelines that enables you to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform or cloud.
Analytics, Azure Blob Storage, Azure HDInsight, Storage
Published • 7 min read
Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.
Announcements, Azure Artifacts, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos and Boards, Azure Test Plans, DevOps
Published • 3 min read
Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Best practices, Internet of Things
Published • 2 min read
This blog was co-authored by Marty Donovan.Retail and consumer goods companies are seeing the applicability of machine learning (ML) to drive improvements in customer service and operational…
Published • 3 min read
The Avere vFXT for Azure delivers new possibilities for running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud. With this new software solution, you can now easily connect on-premises infrastructure to Azure compute or “lift and shift” file-based workloads in Azure to run between Azure blob in the same manner.
Azure SQL Database, Databases, Thought leadership
Published • 5 min read
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Always Encrypted are two different encryption technologies offered by SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Generally, encryption protects Always Encrypted protect data from unauthorized access in different scenarios.