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Companies aren’t ready to succeed with AI
How ready are we to harness AI, be it in the cloud or elsewhere? Pluralsight, the technology workforce development...
General Availability – Snapshots feature of Azure App Configuration
Assure stable production configuration, get efficient rollbacks, and a comprehensive configuration audit trail for...
Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.
Support for Microsoft Graph API events helps you automate actions in response to Microsoft resource changes.
Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues...
Generative AI is off to a rough start
It’s been a rough month for generative AI (GenAI). First, AWS launched Amazon Q, its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot,...
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before...
Why your cloud database performance sucks
“My cloud application is slow,” is a common complaint. However, nine times out of ten the cause does not lie with the...
Can cloud computing be truly federated?
Reporters often call me about whatever newfangled buzzword is out there and what it means to the typical enterprise....
Accelerating cloud native development in Microsoft Azure
One big advantage of developing cloud native applications is that you can often leave all the tedious infrastructure...
AWS finally gets serious about genAI
Love him or hate him, Duckbill Group chief economist and AWS snarkologist Corey Quinn is often right in his...
AWS re:Invent 2023: 7 takeaways from the big annual event
At the AWS re:Invent conference last week, the spotlight was focused on artificial intelligence, with the new...
General availability: Encryption with customer-managed keys in Azure Health Data Services
The ability to encrypt health data in the cloud with customer-managed keys using Azure Health Data Services is...
Azure Event Grid system topics support for resource management and health resources now in Public Preview
Health resources and resource management alerts available through Event Grid system topics
Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints
If you are using VNet injection to secure your Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster, you may face some challenges such as...
Azure support plan offer extended to June 30, 2024
Beginning January 1, 2024, all new and renewing Azure customers who purchase an Enterprise Agreement (EA or EES) or...
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025
Azure Functions support for Python 3.8 is ending on 14 October 2023
Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above.
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support today on October 10, 2023. Microsoft has several options for...
Generative AI and migrations to the public cloud
I’m beginning to see articles about how generative AI technology can assist in cloud migration. We’ve already covered...
Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host – Resize
Resize capability for Azure dedicated hosts is now generally available