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Category: AI + Machine Learning • 11 min read

From code to production: New ways Azure helps you build transformational AI experiences

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

What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!

5 min read

Unleashing innovation: The new era of compute powering Azure AI solutions

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

5 min read

New models added to the Phi-3 family, available on Microsoft Azure

By Misha Bilenko Corporate Vice President, Microsoft GenAI

Analytics, Announcements, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor, Compute, Containers

Published June 5, 2024 • 4 min read

Announcing Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters

By Deepak Bansal Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, and Chandan Aggarwal Partner Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce a new offering called Advanced Container Networking Services. It’s a suite of services built on top of existing networking solutions for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to address complex challenges around observability, security, and compliance.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI Content Safety, Azure AI Studio, Azure OpenAI Service, Partners

Published May 13, 2024 • 2 min read

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure

By Eric Boyd Corporate Vice President, Azure AI Platform, Microsoft

Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model on Azure AI. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Migrate, Azure Web PubSub, Compute, Industry trends

Published May 6, 2024 • 5 min read

Harnessing the power of intelligent apps through modernization

By Mike Hulme GM, Azure Digital Applications Marketing

81% of organizations believe AI will give them a competitive edge. Applications are where AI comes to life. Intelligent applications, powered by AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms are pivotal to enhancing performance and stimulating growth. Thus, innovating with intelligent apps is crucial for businesses looking to gain competitive advantage and accelerate growth in this era of AI.
AI + Machine Learning, Announcements, Azure AI, Azure AI Search, Azure App Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, Azure Health Data Services, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Managed Applications, Azure SQL Database, Customer stories, DevOps, Events, Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Copilot for Azure, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Migration, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published May 2, 2024 • 11 min read

What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Harness the power of intelligent apps

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

Sharing insights on technology transformation along with important updates and resources about the data, AI, and digital application solutions that make Microsoft Azure the platform for the era of AI.

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Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage

Published February 7, 2019 • 4 min read

Individually great, collectively unmatched: Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data Services

By Jurgen Willis Vice President of Product Management, Azure Storage

As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake Storage

Published February 7, 2019 • 3 min read

Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers. Why go anywhere else?

By Microsoft Azure

It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.

Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Databases, Developer Tools

Published February 7, 2019 • 1 min read

Azure DevOps Projects supporting Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions

By Microsoft Azure

With Azure DevOps Projects we want to make it is easy for you to set up a fully functional DevOps pipeline tailored to the development language and application platform you want to leverage.

Partners, Web

Published February 7, 2019 • 9 min read

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 31

By Christine Alford Director, Business Program Management

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From January 1 to January 15, 2019, 67 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

Compute, How to, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Published February 7, 2019 • 3 min read

Simplify Always On availability group deployments on Azure VM with SQL VM CLI

By Mine Tokus Principal Program Manager

Always On availability groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your SQL Server database, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.

Azure DevTest Labs, Developer Tools, How to

Published February 6, 2019 • 2 min read

Configure resource group control for your Azure DevTest Lab

By Tanmayee Kamath Senior Program Manager

As a lab owner, you now have the option to configure all your lab virtual machines (VMs) to be created in a single resource group. This helps prevent you from reaching resource group limits on your Microsoft Azure subscription.

Announcements, Azure SQL Database, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases

Published February 6, 2019 • 1 min read

Reserved instances now applicable to classic VMs, cloud services, and Dev/Test subscriptions

By Microsoft Azure

Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.

Announcements, Cost Management, Management and Governance

Published February 6, 2019 • 2 min read

Azure Cost Management now generally available for enterprise agreements and more!

By Raphael Chacko Principal Program Manager, Azure

We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and optimize costs across Azure.

Analytics, Azure HDInsight, Best practices

Published February 5, 2019 • 10 min read

Processing trillions of events per day with Apache Kafka on Azure

By Negin Raoof Software Engineer II

n the current era, companies generate huge volumes of data every second. Whether it be for business intelligence, user analytics, or operational intelligence; ingestion, and analysis of streaming data requires moving this data from its sources to the multiple consumers that are interested in it.

Management and Governance, Microsoft Azure portal

Published February 5, 2019 • 4 min read

Microsoft Azure portal February 2019 update

By Leon Welicki Chief Product Officer, Power Apps

This month we’re bringing you updates to several IaaS Compute resources, an improvement to the layout of essential properties on overview pages, enhancements to the experience on recovery services pages, and expansions of setting options in Intune.