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.
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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.
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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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