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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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Developer Tools, Visual Studio Codespaces

Published January 24, 2019 • 1 min read

Hyperledger Fabric updates now available

By Cale Teeter Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Engineering

In late 2017, a growing number of customers were interested in using Hyperledger Fabric to build their applications on Azure. At this time, we announced support for this popular offering through the Azure Marketplace.

Azure Security Center, Security

Published January 24, 2019 • 2 min read

Regulatory compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center now available

By Ronit Reger Principal Program Manager, Azure Security Center

Azure Security Center now helps streamline this process of meeting compliance standards with the new regulatory compliance dashboard, recently released to public preview.

Azure IoT Hub, Customer stories, Internet of Things

Published January 24, 2019 • 3 min read

AI & IoT Insider Labs: Helping transform smallholder farming

By Peter Cooper Senior Product Marketing Manager, IoT

From smart factories and smart cities to virtual personal assistants and self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are transforming how people around the world live, work, and play.

API Management, Announcements, Integration

Published January 23, 2019 • 2 min read

Announcing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API Management

By Mike Budzynski Senior Program Manager

Azure API Management has just introduced preview support of OpenAPI Specification v3 – the latest version of the broadly used open-source standard of describing APIs. Implementation of the feature is based on the OpenAPI.NET SDK.

Analytics, Announcements, Event Hubs, Integration, Service Bus

Published January 23, 2019 • 2 min read

Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability

By Microsoft Azure

The Azure Messaging team is continually working to enhance the resiliency and availability of our service offerings – Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Event Grid.

Announcements, Azure IoT Hub, Internet of Things

Published January 23, 2019 • 5 min read

Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview

By Reza Sherafat Senior Program Manager, Azure IoT

In today’s security-first digital age, ensuring secure connectivity to IoT devices is of paramount importance. A wide range of operational and maintenance scenarios in the IoT space rely on end-to-end device connectivity in order to enable users and services to interact with, login, troubleshoot, send, or receive data from devices.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure HDInsight, Visual Studio Codespaces

Published January 23, 2019 • 2 min read

HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available

By Jenny Jiang Principal Program Manager, Big Data Team

We are pleased to announce the general availability for Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode). HDInsight Tools for VSCode give developers a cross-platform lightweight code editor for developing HDInsight PySpark and Hive batch jobs and interactive query.

Azure Backup, Management and Governance, Storage

Published January 22, 2019 • 2 min read

Azure Backup now supports PowerShell and ACLs for Azure Files

By Vishnu Charan TJ Senior Program Manager

We are excited to reveal a set of new features for backing up Microsoft Azure file shares natively using Azure Backup. All backup-related features have also been released to support file shares connected to Azure File Sync.

Analytics, Azure HDInsight, How to

Published January 22, 2019 • 6 min read

HDInsight Metastore Migration Tool open source release now available

By Microsoft Azure

We are excited to share the release of the Microsoft Azure HDInsight Metastore Migration Tool (HMMT), an open-source script that can be used for applying bulk edits to the Hive metastore.

Azure IoT Central, How to, Internet of Things

Published January 22, 2019 • 5 min read

Connecting Node-RED to Azure IoT Central

By Peter Provost Principal PM Manager, Azure IoT

Today I want to show how simple it is to connect a temperature/humidity sensor to Azure IoT Central using a Raspberry Pi and Node-RED.