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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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How to, Management and Governance, Microsoft Azure portal

Published September 11, 2014 • 14 min read

Getting Started with Live Streaming Using the Azure Management Portal

By Jason Suess Principal PM Manager, Azure Media Services

Earlier today we announced the availability of our public preview of Azure Media Services live services. We will have several posts this week covering different aspects of our live streaming capabilities and how to use them. In this post, I’ll give you some of the basics of live streaming and will then apply them to a specific scenario.

Azure SQL Database, Databases, How to, Hybrid + Multicloud

Published September 11, 2014 • 5 min read

Azure SQL Database introduces new near real-time performance metrics

By Microsoft Azure

This post describes some simple steps and guidelines on the process of using the information from this DMV to evaluate and pick the right performance tier for your database workload.

Azure Media Player, Media

Published September 11, 2014 • 8 min read

Introducing: Azure Media Indexer

By Microsoft Azure

Azure Media Indexer extracts meaningful metadata from audio and video files with speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research. This blog post is the first in a series describing how to run jobs on Azure Media Services using Indexer.

Azure Blob Storage, How to, Storage

Published September 8, 2014 • 13 min read

Managing Concurrency in Microsoft Azure Storage

By Jason Hogg GM, Azure for Operators

This post provides an overview of how the Azure Storage platform simplifies development by providing first class support for all three of these concurrency strategies.

Azure Site Recovery, Management and Governance, Migration

Published September 4, 2014 • 4 min read

Introducing Microsoft Migration Accelerator

By Srinath Vasireddy Principal Product Manager

I’m excited to announce the limited preview of the Migration Accelerator (MA), for Azure. Spawned from the technology of our InMage acquisition the MA is designed to seamlessly migrate physical, VMware, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Hyper-V workloads into Azure.

Databases, How to, MySQL Database on Azure

Published September 2, 2014 • 6 min read

Create your own dedicated MySQL Server for your Azure Websites

By Sunitha Muthukrishna Program Manager, Azure App Service

If you are working on an LAMP or WAMP application and want to host it on Azure , Azure websites is the fastest and most reliable way to host your application on Azure.

Compute, How to

Published September 2, 2014 • 3 min read

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Monitoring with Azure Diagnostics Extension

By Microsoft Azure

With the launch of the Azure preview portal and the support for the Azure extension model, there are new diagnostic capabilities available that will help you better monitor your Azure IaaS VMs with very little setup and configuration.

Automation, How to, Identity, Management and Governance, Microsoft Entra ID

Published August 27, 2014 • 4 min read

Azure Automation: Authenticating to Azure using Azure Active Directory

By Microsoft Azure

If you’re a user of Azure Automation, you already know how useful it can be for automating manual, long running, frequently repeated, and error prone tasks that keep your cloud services up and running. You may also be well aware that there are a number of steps required to get Azure Automation set up to talk to Azure using certificate-based authentication. Well we on the Azure Automation and Azure PowerShell team are happy to present you with an easier alternative..

Azure SQL Database, Databases, Hybrid + Multicloud

Published August 26, 2014 • 4 min read

New Azure SQL Database service tiers generally available in September with reduced pricing and enhanced SLA

By Microsoft Azure

Following on the heels of last week’s announcement, I am pleased to announce more news about our efforts to deliver a rich, connected set of data services on Azure, as part of our broader data platform.

Compute, How to, Linux Virtual Machines

Published August 25, 2014 • 6 min read

Using VMAccess Extension to Reset Login Credentials, Add New User and Add SSH Key for Linux VM

By Ning Kuang Principal Product Manager

VMAccess extension enables you to reset the password, SSH key, or the SSH configurations, so you can regain the access