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Announcements
Oct 16
8 min read

Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available

By Arun Kishan, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Core Compute and Host; Rani Borkar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure

We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs run on Microsoft’s first fully custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU and represent a significant milestone in our end-to-end approach to building cloud infrastructure.

Announcements
Oct 3
5 min read

Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems

By Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

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Thought leadership
Oct 15
5 min read

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

By Rani Borkar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure; Saurabh Dighe, Corporate Vice President, Azure Strategic Planning and Architecture; Zaid Kahn, Vice President, Cloud AI and Advanced Systems Engineering

Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

By Omar Khan, Vice President of Azure Infrastructure Marketing

- Hybrid + multicloud
Oct 23
5 min read

Empower innovation and transformation through AI and data-driven insights on Azure

By Omar Khan, Vice President of Azure Infrastructure Marketing

- AI + machine learning
Oct 22
7 min read

How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service

By Andy Beatman, Director of Product Marketing, Azure AI; Justin Rose, Product Marketing Manager, Education

- Hybrid + multicloud
Oct 21
4 min read

Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

By Omar Khan, Vice President of Azure Infrastructure Marketing

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- Management and governance
Oct 17
4 min read

Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance

By Molly Bostic, Partner Group Program Manager, Microsoft Cloud + AI

- AI + machine learning
Oct 10
5 min read

Achieving AI readiness through comprehensive modernization

By Mike Hulme, General Manager, Azure Digital Applications Marketing

- AI + machine learning
Oct 10
9 min read

Unlocking next-generation AI capabilities with healthcare AI models

By Matthew Lungren, Chief Medical Information Officer, Nuance

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- Management and governance
Oct 8
4 min read

Unlock your data with AI solutions from the Microsoft commercial marketplace

By Yvonne Muench, Senior Director, Marketplace and ISV Journey, Microsoft

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- Compute
Oct 2
2 min read

Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series

By Nitin Nagarkatte, Principal Product Manager, Azure HPC+AI

- AI + machine learning
Oct 1
5 min read

Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities

By Steve Sweetman, Azure OpenAI Service Product Lead

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- Oct 23
- 6 min read
Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

By Omar Khan, Vice President of Azure Infrastructure Marketing
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- Oct 22
- 7 min read
How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service

By Andy Beatman, Director of Product Marketing, Azure AI; Justin Rose, Product Marketing Manager, Education
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- Oct 15
- 5 min read
Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

By Rani Borkar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure; Saurabh Dighe, Corporate Vice President, Azure Strategic Planning and Architecture; Zaid Kahn, Vice President, Cloud AI and Advanced Systems Engineering

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Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available

Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

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Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

Empower innovation and transformation through AI and data-driven insights on Azure

How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance

Achieving AI readiness through comprehensive modernization

Unlocking next-generation AI capabilities with healthcare AI models

Unlock your data with AI solutions from the Microsoft commercial marketplace

Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series

Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities

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Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

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