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Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The past year has been one of true transformation. Companies are seeing real benefits today and are eager to explore what’s next—including how they can do more with their data investments, build intelligent applications, and uncover what AI can do for their business.

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Microsoft named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS) 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure and Industry

We are honored to be recognized by Gartner® as a leader in Completeness of Vision in the recently published 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). In the report, Gartner applauds Microsoft’s investment across all areas of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS as Azure leads in Completeness of Vision and delivers strong ability to execute.

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Published • 7 min read

The seven pillars of modern AI development: Leaning into the era of custom copilots 

By Principal Program Manager, AI Platform

Although there is much excitement for copilot pattern-based solutions, it’s important for businesses to carefully consider the design elements to guarantee a durable, ever-evolving, and effective approach. How can you ensure your solution does not just capture attention, but also enhances customer engagement? Here are six pillars to think through while building yours.

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Published • 6 min read

How Azure is ensuring the future of GPUs is confidential 

By Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

In Microsoft Azure, we are continually innovating to enhance security, such as our collaboration with our hardware partners to create a new foundation based on silicon, that enables new levels of data protection through memory encryption using Confidential Computing.

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Democratizing FinOps: Transform your practice with FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric 

By Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

With new developments like Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management and Microsoft Fabric, there couldn’t be a better time to take a fresh look at how you manage cost within your organization and how you can leverage the FinOps Framework and the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) to accelerate your FinOps efforts.

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Advancing hybrid cloud to adaptive cloud with Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Edge + Platform

The need for a unified platform and system to address these challenges is evident. We believe Azure is the platform that can help, and we have been investing in Azure Arc to solve these problems. We see an opportunity to do more by bringing together agility and intelligence so that our customers can proactively adapt to change, rather than react to it and maintain a competitive edge in a dynamic landscape. 

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