Accelerating capital markets workloads for Murex on Azure

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The financial services industry is constantly evolving to meet customer and regulatory demands. It is facing a variety of challenges spanning people, processes, and technology. Financial institutions (FIs) need to continuously accelerate to achieve technology and innovation while maintaining scale, quality, speed, and safety. Simultaneously, they need to...

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Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed

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Large-scale transformer-based deep learning models trained on large amounts of data have shown great results in recent years in several cognitive tasks and are behind new products and features that augment human capabilities. These models have grown several orders of magnitude in size during the last five years....

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Microsoft Cost Details API now generally available for EA and MCA customers

The Cost Details API is now generally available for use by Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers. This API provides on-demand download of the granular cost details (formerly referred to as usage details) associated with your Microsoft charges. The API replaces all existing Usage Details...

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Digital transformation for manufacturers requires additional IT/OT security

While every industry is vulnerable to a ransomware attack, manufacturers are at a particular risk. While digitization and automation have helped transform the industry, it has simultaneously opened up new attack vectors within organizations. Now the most targeted industry, the manufacturing industry, has seen a 300 percent increase...

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Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

We are excited to announce the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies...

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Gateway Load Balancer now generally available in all regions

We announced the public preview release of Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), a new SKU of Azure Load Balancer targeted for transparent NVA (network virtual appliance) insertion supported by a growing list of NVA providers. Today, placing NVAs in the path of traffic is a growing need for customers...

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Microsoft joins Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Working Groups at Eclipse Foundation

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We’re excited to announce that Microsoft has joined the Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Working Groups as an Enterprise and Corporate member, respectively. Our goal is to help advance these technologies to deliver better outcomes for our Java customers and the broader community. We’re committed to the...

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MLOps Blog Series Part 4: Testing security of secure machine learning systems using MLOps

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The growing adoption of data-driven and machine learning–based solutions is driving the need for businesses to handle growing workloads, exposing them to extra levels of complexities and vulnerabilities.Cybersecurity is the biggest risk for AI developers and adopters. According to a survey released by Deloitte, in July 2020, 62...

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What is desktop as a service (DaaS) and how can it help your organization?

Today’s workers want the freedom to respond to email and collaborate with colleagues from anywhere, on any device—whether they’re working at their kitchen table, at the airport waiting for their flight to board, or in the carpool line waiting for their kids to get out of school. The...

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How to choose the right Azure services for your applications—It’s not A or B

If you have been working with Azure for any period, you might have grappled with the question—which Azure service is best to run my apps on? This is an important decision because the services you choose will dictate your resource planning, budget, timelines, and, ultimately, the time to...

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MLOps Blog Series Part 3: Testing scalability of secure machine learning systems using MLOps

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The capacity of a system to adjust to changes by adding or removing resources to meet demand is known as scalability. Here are some tests to check the scalability of your model.System testingSystem tests are carried out to test the robustness of the design of a system for...

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