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How to explain data meshes, fabrics, and clouds
Your CEO knows what a database is and probably thinks a data warehouse is a large data vault used for reporting and...
Kubernetes costs less, but less than what?
Let’s start with some gospel: In IT, there is no gospel. No definite “thou shalts” that always apply, 100% of the...
We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the...
General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks
Azure Automation support for Python 3.8 runbooks is now Generally Available.
Alert processing rules fields update
Alert processing rules are a set of rules that allow for modifications to be made to fired alerts, distinct from alert...
General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 8 Release
How finops affects cloud usage and repatriation
A 2022 study carried out by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that 62% of firms use third-party cloud-cost...
Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for...
Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal
Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)
Google unveils PaLM 2 AI language model
Google has introduced PaLM (Pathways Language Model) 2, an update to its next-generation large language model with...
Google’s Vertex AI machine learning platform gets generative AI tools
At Google's annual I/O conference, the internet giant on Wednesday said that it was adding tools for building...
Google’s Duet AI to take on Amazon CodeWhisperer, GitHub Copilot
Google at its annual I/O conference on Wednesday said that it would be introducing a new generative AI engine, akin to...
Solving the SBOM crisis with WebAssembly components
Recent reports have thrown the spotlight back on the thorny issue of inherited software vulnerabilities. Many don’t...
Component-based development has been a long time coming
It was 1991, and I was sitting at yet another software development conference listening to a presentation on a new...
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview....
Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based...
Kubernetes cost management for the real world
Microsoft’s decision to make Kubernetes a foundational service in Azure is paying off, not only for Microsoft but also...
Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded
OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS)...