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Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
Is generative AI bringing back private clouds?
According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of about 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers...
General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to...
Designing and developing APIs with TypeSpec
Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to improve the Azure APIs. That project delivered a set of...
The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice
Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual...
General Availability: Data API builder
Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder.
Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global...
Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in...
Azure Front Door server variable enhancement general available
Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable.
Need GPUs? Take a look at microclouds
As most IT people know, GPUs are in high demand and are critical for running and training generative AI models. The...
Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the latest Ubuntu LTS release from Canonical, is now available for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs
Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application...
Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Back in 2014, when the wave of containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing was breaking over the technology...
Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift
Red Hat is extending its Lightspeed generative AI technology to work with the company’s Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud...
Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which...
Cloud environments beyond the Big Three
The Big Three cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, are going like gangbusters. The most likely reason is two...
Protecting LLM applications with Azure AI Content Safety
Both extremely promising and extremely risky, generative AI has distinct failure modes that we need to defend against...
Red Hat’s Podman AI Lab supports developer adoption of genAI
Red Hat has unveiled Podman AI Lab, an extension to the Podman Desktop graphical interface that lets developers build...
New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3