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Published December 6, 2023 • 8 min read

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

By Alysa Taylor 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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Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake Storage, Cost Management, Management and Governance

Published November 28, 2023 • 8 min read

Democratizing FinOps: Transform your practice with FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric

By Michael Flanakin 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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AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Databricks, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Migrate, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure SQL Database, Events, Microsoft Dev Box

Published November 15, 2023 • 14 min read

Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Applications, Product Marketing

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.

AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure Arc, Azure IoT, Azure Migrate, Events

Published November 15, 2023 • 6 min read

Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure in the era of AI

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

With Azure, you can trust that you are on a secure and well-managed foundation to utilize the latest advancements in AI and cloud-native services. Azure is adaptive and purpose-built for all your workloads, helping you seamlessly unify and manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions.

Announcements, Cost Management, Management and Governance

Published November 9, 2023 • 8 min read

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2023

By Sameer Doultani Principal Product Manager

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.

AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure OpenAI Service, Developer Tools

Published November 7, 2023 • 2 min read

Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President, Data, AI, and Digital Applications, Product Marketing

With these announcements from OpenAI DevDay, developers and enterprises are now poised to explore new horizons, empowered by the combined strengths of Microsoft and OpenAI, and the limitless possibilities of generative AI.

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Announcements, Azure Arc, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Hybrid + Multicloud

Published November 7, 2023 • 4 min read

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

This year, Gartner introduced a Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI). We are thrilled to share that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in this new category.

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Announcements, Azure Bastion, Developer Tools, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Published October 30, 2023 • 4 min read

Introducing Azure Bastion Developer: Secure and cost-effective access to your Azure Virtual Machines

By Isabelle Morris Product Manager 2 for Azure Bastion

Azure Bastion Developer is a groundbreaking solution that simplifies secure access to Virtual Machines for developers by addressing the common issues of discovery, usability, and cost.

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Announcements, Azure Monitor, Compute, Virtual Machines

Published October 30, 2023 • 6 min read

Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

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

Sharing the latest advancements in improving VM availability monitoring for customers with Project Flash.

Announcements, Cost Management, Management and Governance

Published October 26, 2023 • 6 min read

FOCUS: A new specification for cloud cost transparency

By Michael Flanakin Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Cost Management

Get ready for FOCUS, a new open specification for cloud billing data that's redefining how you manage and optimize cloud costs. Learn about the new "language" of FinOps, why it's important, and how you can get started today with resources from the Microsoft FinOps toolkit.

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

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Microsoft Azure AI, data, and application innovations help turn your AI ambitions into reality

Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure in the era of AI

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2023

Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

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