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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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Compute, Containers, Linux Virtual Machines

Published October 20, 2014 • 5 min read

Azure’s getting bigger, faster and more open

By Jason Zander Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure

A few hours ago, Scott Guthrie and Satya Nadella talked about Microsoft’s strategy for cloud computing, announcing several important technology and partnership updates to Microsoft Azure.

Compute, Containers, Linux Virtual Machines

Published October 15, 2014 • 3 min read

New Windows Server containers and Azure support for Docker

By Jason Zander Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure

Today, Microsoft and Docker Inc. are jointly announcing we are bringing the Windows Server ecosystem to the Docker community.

Compute

Published October 13, 2014 • 2 min read

Accessing and Using Azure VM Unique ID

By Microsoft Azure

We have recently added support for Azure VM unique ID. No matter what your platform or applications requirements on Azure VM, you can now have access to an Azure VM unique identifier.

Media, Media Services

Published October 7, 2014 • 2 min read

Live 24/7 Reference Streams Available

By Microsoft Azure

In this post, you will learn about our reference linear streams, how they were set up, and how you can use them.

Azure SQL Database, Databases, Hybrid + Multicloud

Published October 2, 2014 • 2 min read

Introducing Elastic Scale preview for Azure SQL Database

By Microsoft Azure

Today we are announcing the public preview of Elastic Scale for Azure SQL Database. The new Elastic Scale capabilities simplify the process of scaling out (and in) a cloud application’s data tier by streamlining development and management.

Azure SQL Database, Databases, How to

Published October 1, 2014 • 6 min read

Azure SQL Database Point in Time Restore

By Microsoft Azure

In this final post in our series on Business Continuity I’m going to look at point-in-time restore, a self-service feature available for Basic, Standard, and Premium databases.

Compute, Virtual Machines

Published September 22, 2014 • 4 min read

New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes

By Microsoft Azure

This post announces support for new D-Series sizes Virtual Machines for Azure.

Media, Media Services

Published September 18, 2014 • 9 min read

Azure Media Services RTMP Support and Live Encoders

By Microsoft Azure

This article focuses on RTMP ingest feature enabled by Azure Media Services, and how it can be used to source multi-bitrate live feed to Azure Media Services channels using Wirecast, Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) and FFmpeg encoders.

Networking, Virtual Network

Published September 15, 2014 • 2 min read

Azure Websites Virtual Network Integration

By Christina Compy Principal Program Manager, Azure Websites

Azure Websites is happy to announce support for integration between your Azure VNET and your Azure Websites. The Virtual Network feature grants your website access to resources running your VNET.

App Configuration, How to, Networking, Traffic Manager, Web

Published September 15, 2014 • 4 min read

How to host a Scalable and Optimized WordPress for Azure in minutes

By Sunitha Muthukrishna Program Manager, Azure App Service

WordPress is one of the most popular Blogging Engines that not only allows you to create blog websites, it can also be used to create corporate as well as ecommerce sites with its oceans of plugins and extensibility. This post shows you a hassle-free way to spin up a scalable and optimized WordPress site in just minutes for Azure.