If your organization aspires to harness the power of AI to enhance customer experiences and drive growth, cloud migration far outpaces on-premises alternatives.
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Learn more about VMware migration with Azure VMware Solution. Lock in pricing, unlock Azure cloud services, and optimize your vSphere workloads.
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Advancements in generative AI continue to accelerate the pace of industry transformation, with telecommunications emerging as a leader AI adoption. In this blog, I will share a number of exciting updates about our Azure for Operators portfolio of cloud-based solutions that enable operators to drive innovation and efficiency in the network.
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Demand for cloud infrastructure continues to grow as organizations focus on migrating to the cloud and building new solutions that take advantage of AI.
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The joint solution of GitHub and Azure, combined with the power of Visual Studio, can create order for previously staggered workflows and delayed deployments.
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As part of our Fabric Community Hub—a virtual hangout for Fabric users to connect with community members, ask questions, and learn—we’ve developed the Fabric Career Hub. It’s your all-in-one repository for Fabric know-how, featuring every learning resource we have to help you ditch the data silos, streamline your workflows, and unleash the hidden potential of your information.
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We are announcing the preview of Azure Storage Actions, a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.
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We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Elastic SAN, the industry’s first fully-managed and cloud-native SAN offering that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in the cloud.
The post Azure Elastic SAN efficiently migrates SAN to the cloud—now generally available appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

2023 was an emblematic year of growth for storage and data services with AI at the top of mind for many customers. Azure customers’ overall data estate continued to grow, powered by the emergence of new workloads and access patterns.
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As organizations prepare for peak events and unforeseen challenges, performance testing stands as a beacon, guiding them toward reliable, high-performance systems that can weather the storm of user demands.
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As the holiday season of 2023 unfolded, it brought not only cheer and celebration but also a surge in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. This year's trends in DDoS attacks reveal a complex and evolving threat landscape.
The post Unwrapping the 2023 holiday season: A deep dive into Azure’s DDoS attack landscape appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

By purchasing third-party solutions through Microsoft Azure, customers can maximize investments while balance costs with fast, click-to-deploy, solutions that are validated for compatibility with Microsoft applications for virtually any cloud scenario.
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At the Developer Experience Lab, a joint Microsoft and GitHub research initiative, we saw this play out globally during the pandemic which led us to a revelation: the best way to help developers achieve more is not by expecting more, but by improving their experience.
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To support customers in getting the most from their cloud portfolio, Microsoft works with partners such as Dynatrace, an analytics and automation platform powered by causal AI, and recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™.
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Microsoft has been at the forefront of this technological revolution, announcing Copilot for Azure, M365, GitHub, and more. We, in Microsoft Cost Management, are also always looking for ways to simplify your FinOps practice so that you can stay focused on your business goals.
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Copilot—powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service—allows you to simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge.
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We are excited to share that Oracle Database@Azure is generally available in the Azure United States East region, with more regions coming in 2024. You can now use Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware deployed in Azure data centers.
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We’re dedicated to documenting and sharing our learnings and best practices with the developer community so they can make responsible AI implementation practical for their organizations.
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Companies around the world are using AI to understand potential threats, make informed decisions, and take actions to avoid or reduce risk.
The post Future proof—Navigating risk management with Azure OpenAI Service appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

By not only making actual planning and observational data more accessible, but also helping companies present insights in a human-centric format with generative AI, Azure Data Manager is helping lead the way into a more sustainable future.
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Microsoft “30 Days to Learn It” challenges are dynamic and immersive learning experiences designed to empower individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in their chosen tech career path.
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In this blog post, we will discuss some of the design principles and characteristics that we see among the customer leaders we work with closely to enhance their critical workload availability according to their specific business needs.
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In Microsoft Azure, we are continually innovating to enhance security, such as our collaboration with our hardware partners to create a new foundation based on silicon, that enables new levels of data protection through memory encryption using Confidential Computing.
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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.
The post Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2023 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, efficient financial management is the linchpin that keeps organizations agile and cost-effective. In support of that, we are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has achieved a milestone that reaffirms our commitment to empowering our customers and partners in their journey towards optimized cloud spending. We are now a FinOps Certified Service Provider.
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At Microsoft, we understand that customers strive to improve workload reliability and security and optimize their cloud spend so they can accelerate business innovation without worrying about workload vulnerabilities or ballooning cloud costs.
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This month, we’re helping customers operationalize responsible AI with purpose-built tools and have a few products and updates designed to empower our customers to innovate safely with our trusted platform.
The post What’s new in Data & AI: Prioritize AI safety to scale with confidence appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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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Sharing the latest advancements in improving VM availability monitoring for customers with Project Flash.
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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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At this year’s OCP Global Summit, Microsoft will share our latest contributions to supercomputing architecture and hardware intended to support the new era through standardization and innovation.
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We’re making several exciting announcements about new capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare that will be introduced across Azure to help health organizations improve patient experience, gain new insights with machine learning and AI, and handle health information securely.
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We are excited to announce the preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale.
The post Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps appeared first on Azure Blog.