Tailor Microsoft’s AI language model to your business
Microsoft is allowing companies to personalize the AI language model in Azure. This can only be done by sharing company data with the model.
Microsoft is releasing a public preview of 'on your data'. This is an Azure OpenAI Service in which companies can attach OpenAI language models directly t... Read more
‘Microsoft-backed Rubrik prepping for a $750M IPO’
The data protection software startup has hired banks to prep the massive public offering, sources say.
This week Reuters reported that Rubrik, the US cybersecurity startup, has hired a group of banks to prepare for an initial public offering that could go as high as $750 million (€696 million)... Read more
Typo caused hours-long Microsoft Azure DevOps outage
A typo in a code upgrade for a scale unit of Microsoft Azure DevOps recently caused the deletion of 17 production databases. The lengthy recovery period subsequently led to 10 hours of downtime in the Azure region of southern Brazil.
According to a statement from Microsoft, administrators of Azu... Read more
Microsoft makes Azure Linux generally available
The announcement follows the CBL-Mariner project announcement from last year.
This week at Microsoft's Build event, the software giant announced that it has made Azure Linux generally available. Azure Linux is Microsoft's own distribution of the open source operating system.
Jim Perrin, princ... Read more
Microsoft promises extra speed with NVMe-enabled Azure VMs
Microsoft has announced the general availability of NVMe-supported Ebsv5 virtual machines (VMs) on Azure. The company promises up to three times faster IOPS (input/output operations per second) for remote storage. In addition, Microsoft claims up to six times more throughput.
The tech giant says... Read more
AMD gets a big customer for SmartNICs with Azure
AMD has announced that its SmartNICs (Smart Network Interface Cards) will be deployed with Microsoft Azure. These so-called Pensando Data Processing Units are thus behind the recently announced Microsoft Accelerated Connections service, which accelerates networking via Azure.
In a blog, AMD talk... Read more
Cloud investments amount to $63 billion in Q1
Organizations have spent $63.7 billion on cloud infrastructure services during the first quarter worldwide. This is the headline finding from a new report from Synergy Research Group. The report covers three product categories: infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and h... Read more
Google’s cloud division posts quarterly profits for the first time
Google’s parent company's net income was $15.05 billion, compared to $16.44 billion in the previous year, with earnings before certain costs coming to $1.17 per share, higher than the expected $1.07 per share. Revenue for the quarter topped $69.79 billion, beating analysts' predictions of $68.9 b... Read more
Cohesity and Microsoft expand partnership: ChatGPT meets data security
Microsoft and Cohesity greatly expand collaboration. Deeper integrations between the two parties' portfolios, DMaaS solutions becoming available on Azure and the addition of OpenAI technology to Cohesity's platform allow backups to provide context and insight.
Cohesity made a pretty big announce... Read more
Microsoft turned Azure into a computing giant to enable ChatGPT
The company has revealed the extent of its gargantuan engineering efforts to support their investment with OpenAI.
When Microsoft invested $1 billion in an artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI four years ago, it agreed to build a giant, advanced supercomputer for the AI research co... Read more