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The temptation of AI as a service
Back in the early days of the cloud, I had a nice little business taking enterprise applications and reengineering...
Do you need to repatriate from the cloud?
Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data...
Using Inspektor Gadget for Kubernetes observability
Platform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts...
OpenAI ramps up enterprise support with a focus on security, control, and cost
OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could...
Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX
Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take...
General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over...
Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor!
General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain!
Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore
Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region.
General availability: Virtual network flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions,...
AWS moves Amazon Bedrock’s AI guardrails, and other features to general availability
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is moving some features of its generative AI application-building service, Amazon Bedrock,...
The dawn of intelligent and automated data orchestration
The exponential growth of data, and in particular unstructured data, is a problem enterprises have been wrestling with...
The cloud is not a slam dunk platform for generative AI
As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences, as have data...
The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
7 innovative ways to use low-code tools and platforms
Some developers and business leaders believe that low-code is only for small, lightly used applications such as...
.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date,...
Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.
Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024.