In the Cloud Cultures series, leaders from 12 different countries share how they’re tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges.
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Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as
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We are pleased to announce that the o1 model is coming soon to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This multimodal model brings advanced reasoning capabilities and improvements that will significantly enhance your AI applications and solutions. The o1 model supports both text and vision inputs, making it ideal for a wide range of applications from complex problem-solving to contextual AI experiences.
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Take a look at three companies who invested in continuous, holistic modernization with remarkable success.
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Microsoft Azure Maps is a collection of mapping and location APIs that enable enterprises to add location intelligence into their solutions.
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At Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, we announced offerings and resources to empower software companies in the landscape of AI-powered experiences.
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In this blog, we’ll explore how the unique features of Copilot enhance each element of DevEx across the SPACE framework.
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Azure is designed to unify operations, streamline application development, and consolidate data management across distributed infrastructures.
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At Microsoft Ignite, we announced key product updates to enable your FinOps journey.
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News and advancements from Microsoft Ignite to showcase our commitment to your success in this dynamic era. Let’s get started.
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At Microsoft Ignite, we’re introducing significant updates across our entire cloud and AI infrastructure.
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We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest in Completeness of Vision.
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With the increased adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers and Kubernetes have become the backbone of modern application deployments. Microservices-based container workloads are easier to scale, more portable, and resource-efficient. With Kubernetes managing these workloads, organizations can deploy advanced AI and machine learning applications across diverse compute resources, significantly improving operational productivity at scale. With this
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Our latest enhancements strengthen core network capabilities for mission-critical applications running in the cloud.
The post Unlocking the future: Azure networking updates on security, reliability, and high availability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o's multimodal offerings.
The post Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

To truly harness the power of generative AI, customization is key. In this blog, we share the latest Microsoft Azure AI updates.
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Explore how Microsoft's platform-centric approach builds resilient digital ecosystems. This first post in our end-to-end security series covers its definition and benefits in cybersecurity.
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Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a fast and easy way to seamlessly migrate VMware-based workloads to Azure, using familiar VMware tools and skills.
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Discover how UC Berkeley uses Azure OpenAI Service to enhance computer science education and prepare students for their future careers.
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At Microsoft, we have commitments to ensuring Trustworthy AI and are building industry-leading supporting technology. Our commitments and capabilities go hand in hand to make sure our customers and developers are protected at every layer. Building on our commitments, today we are announcing new product capabilities to strengthen the security, safety and privacy of AI systems.
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Announcing new features designed to further enhance data privacy and security capabilities for customers building and scaling with Azure OpenAI.
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At Microsoft, we want to give you more choice, flexibility, and resiliency for your cloud solutions, and we encourage you to take advantage of these benefits by adopting a multi-region growth strategy.
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We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.
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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.
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“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, we see a growing number of services and environments (in which those services run) our customers utilize on Azure. Ensuring the performance and security of Azure means our teams are vigilant about regular maintenance and updates to keep pace with customer needs. Stability, reliability, and rolling timely updates remain
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I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Las Vegas, where my team and I are thrilled to present the latest updates for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). We’re hosting sessions, showcasing demos at our booth, and most importantly, meeting directly with customers like these to help them map the future of their VMware environments
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We're excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain.
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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.
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Learn how MFA can protect your data and identity, and get ready for the upcoming MFA requirement for Azure.
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We're excited to announce significant updates for Azure OpenAI Service, designed to help our 60,000+ customers manage AI deployments more efficiently and cost-effectively beyond current pricing. With the introduction of self-service Provisioned deployments, we aim to help make your quota and deployment processes more agile, faster to market, and more economical.
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Flex Consumption delivers fast and large scale-out features on a serverless model and supports long function execution times, private networking, instance size selection, and concurrency control.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4o Next.
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Azure Data Box offline data transfer solution allows you send petabytes of data into Azure Storage in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA have launched a collaborative resource for developers and organizations to experience the better together benefits.
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We are excited to partner with GitHub to empower their more than 100 million developers to build AI applications directly from GitHub.com with seamless integrations with Codespaces and Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
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Announcing the general availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud.
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We are excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create customized AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain.
The post Announcing Phi-3 fine-tuning, new generative AI models, and other Azure AI updates to empower organizations to customize and scale AI applications appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Forrester's study underscores the significant economic and strategic advantages of migrating to Azure for be AI-ready. Lower costs, increased innovation, better resource allocation, and improved scalability make migration to Azure a clear choice for organizations looking to thrive in the AI-driven future.
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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—June 2024 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

GPT-4o mini, announced by OpenAI today, is available simultaneously on Azure AI, supporting text processing capabilities with excellent speed and with image, audio, and video coming later.
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We are excited to share the latest advancements in Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks, the next generation of Azure disk storage.
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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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We get it—you have a mountain of online learning resources available at your fingertips, and with that information overload you can find yourself lost in a maze of unorganized materials. That's why we're thrilled to introduce Plans on Microsoft Learn, a new tool that provides guided learning for top Azure tools and solutions.
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 No matter your use case, Microsoft Azure AI Studio accelerates the generative AI development lifecycle, empowering organizations to build and shape the future with AI.  
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Organizations across industries are leveraging Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot services and capabilities to drive growth, increase productivity, and create value-added experiences.
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Microsoft Build is more than just a tech conference—it's a celebration of innovation, a catalyst for growth, and a gateway to unlocking your professional potential through skilling opportunities on Microsoft Learn. In this blog, we’ll look back at some of the most exciting Microsoft Azure tools that were featured at Build 2024 and put you on the path to attain proficiency.
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Microsoft is a Leader in this year’s Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Azure AI provides a powerful, flexible end-to-end platform for accelerating data science and machine learning innovation.
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One of these technologies that was highlighted at Microsoft Ignite this past November was Hollow Core Fiber, an innovative optical fiber that is set to optimize the Microsoft Azure global cloud infrastructure, offering superior network quality and secure data transmission.
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Read on to discover the six key lessons learned from manufacturers rethinking their operations for AI and how Microsoft is supporting the factory of the future with Azure's adaptive cloud approach.
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Read on to discover the six key lessons learned from manufacturers rethinking their operations for AI and how Microsoft is supporting the factory of the future with Azure's adaptive cloud approach.
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For cloud professionals looking to systematically upskill and validate their expertise, we’ve created a powerful learning resource called Plans on Microsoft Learn. These customized learning journeys provide a guided, structured approach to mastering specific technical domains and roles with specific learning objectives and milestones.
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Microsoft is proud to partner with ServiceNow, a leader in digital workflows and generative AI, to create seamless and powerful experiences that empower every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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This blog post will show you how to approach and think about pricing throughout your cloud adoption journey. We will also give an example of how a hypothetical digital media company would approach their Azure pricing needs as they transition from evaluating and planning to setting up and running their cloud solutions.
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Together, SAP and Microsoft are not just providing tools and services but are also creating ecosystems that foster innovation and transformation, enabling businesses to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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The integration of Microsoft Azure AI Services is assisting legal professionals in managing data, conducting reviews, and offering services. The impact of AI technologies on the legal industry will grow, driving greater efficiencies and yielding better outcomes for all stakeholders.
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Databricks, a pioneer of the Data Lakehouse an integral component of their Data Intelligence Platform is available as a fully managed first party Data & AI solution on Microsoft Azure as Azure Databricks, making Azure the optimal cloud for running Databricks workloads. This blog post discusses the key advantages of Azure Databricks in detail.
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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.
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By harnessing the might of PostgreSQL in the cloud—with all the scalability and convenience you expect—comes Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This fully managed service takes the hassle out of managing your PostgreSQL instances, allowing you to focus on what really matters: building amazing, AI-powered applications.
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Learn more about the transformative synergy of the Microsoft Cloud and RISE with SAP for business.
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