Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure

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Unused cloud resources can put an unnecessary drain on your computing budget, and unlike legacy on-premises architectures, there is no need to over-provision compute resources for times of heavy usage.Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help unlock cost savings for your Azure workloads by automatically...

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Study Resources for Microsoft AZ-400 Exam Preparation

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The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam measures and confirms an applicant's skill as a DevOps Professional around utilizing Microsoft Azure technologies for designing and executing DevOps practices. This exam is a part of the required exams required to achieve the more comprehensive Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps...

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Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

Continuous cost optimization can take place at all stages of an Azure workload’s lifecycle, but your Azure subscription provides a very effective benefit to further optimize your investment when you are ready to deploy that workload.For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at...

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Enhance your classroom experience with Azure Lab Services—April 2022 update

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Azure Lab Services offers classroom labs for higher education, K-12 institutions, and commercial organizations that don't want to use the on-premises hardware but rather want to harness the power of the cloud to host labs for students or users. We are excited to announce major updates to Azure...

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Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing

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As we highlighted in our latest attack trends report, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the biggest security concerns today. Whether in the cloud or on-premises, DDoS attacks can be targeted at any endpoint that is publicly reachable through the internet. Planning and preparing for a DDoS...

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How Microsoft measures datacenter water and energy use to improve Azure Cloud sustainability

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One of the biggest topics of discussion at COP26, the global climate conference held in November 2021, was how a lack of reliable and consistent measurement hampers progress on the path to Net Zero. I have been reflecting on this issue and, on this Earth Day, I would...

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Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

In September of 2021, we announced the highly anticipated general availability of Azure Purview—a cloud-native data governance solution to enable organizations of all sizes to manage and govern their on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. Since Azure Purview was brought onto the market, thousands of...

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Enhance your data visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now in preview

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Organizations are transforming their digital environments to increase agility and to operate more efficiently. We see this transformation in how customers migrate to the cloud and adopt cloud-native technologies and practices in their own environments. As their digital estates become increasingly more complex and critical to their business...

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Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud

Semiconductor and silicon technology are the basis of digital transformation happening everywhere, across industries and our daily lives, impacting the way we work, learn, and play. The continuous improvement in the performance and power of silicon has been key to enabling this innovation. Here at Microsoft, we’ve empowered...

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Feathr: LinkedIn’s feature store is now available on Azure

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Feature store motivationWith the advance of AI and machine learning, companies start to use complex machine learning pipelines in various applications, such as recommendation systems, fraud detection, and more. These complex systems usually require hundreds to thousands of features to support time-sensitive business applications, and the feature pipelines...

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Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN

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Over the past few years, there has been an increasingly steady drumbeat for the need to diversify and open the telecommunications supply chain. This has been driven both by security concerns and by the need to improve the negotiating power of operators by introducing new entrants into the...

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