Running and transforming a successful enterprise is like being the coach of a championship-winning sports team. To win the trophy, you need a strategy, game plans, and the ability to bring all the players together. In the early days of training, coaches relied on basic drills, manual strategies, and simple equipment. But as technology advanced, so did the art of coaching. Today, coaches use data-driven training programs, performance tracking technology, and sophisticated game strategies to achieve unimaginable performance and secure victories.  We see a similar change happening in industr ..read more

Microsoft Entra is not only the identity system for users; it’s also the identity and access management (IAM) system for Azure-based services, all internal infrastructure services at Microsoft, and our customers’ workload identities. This is why our 99.99% service-level promise extends to workload identity authentication, and why we continue to improve our service’s resilience through a multilayered approach that includes the backup authentication system.  In 2021, we introduced the backup authentication system, as an industry-first innovation that automatically and transparently handles ..read more

The world of AI is constantly changing. Every day it seems there are new ways we can work with generative AI and large language models. It can be hard to know where to start your own learning journey when it comes to AI. Microsoft has put together several resources to help you get started. Whether you are ready to build your own copilot or you’re at the very beginning of your learning journey, read on to find the best and free resources from Microsoft on generative AI training. Let’s go! Azure AI Build intelligent apps at enterprise scale with the Azure AI portfolio Lean more Azure AI fu ..read more

This blog was written in collaboration with the Microsoft Surface and Azure team. It describes how we used Azure high-performance computing (HPC) to save time, costs, and revolutionized our product design piece of manufacturing our Microsoft Surface products. The Microsoft Surface organization exists to create iconic end-to-end experiences across hardware, software, and services that people love to use every day. We believe that products are a reflection of the people who build them, and that the right tools and infrastructure can complement the talent and passion of designers and engineers to ..read more

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Cost Management comes in.  We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements a ..read more

Innovate, Connect, Cultivate The Cloud Cultures series is an exploration of the intersection between cloud innovation and culture across the globe.  Malaysia accelerates growth through digital transformation Amidst the swiftly changing digital landscape, Malaysia stands out as a dynamic force capturing global attention. This nation—enriched by its diverse population comprised of Malays, Indians, Chinese, and more—is home to people and companies that have adeptly embraced innovative technologies, ensuring the benefits extend to all, not just the tech-savvy elite. Malaysia has established a ..read more

OpenAI’s offerings—ChatGPT, Codex, Sora, and DALL-E—have caught the public’s imagination and opened doors to many opportunities for infusing AI into networks, systems, services, and applications. These cutting-edge AI technologies are now deeply integrated with Microsoft products including Bing, Windows, Office, and Microsoft Teams. Within Azure for Operators, we are taking advantage of the significant investments Microsoft has made and its expertise in programming foundation models by developing technical solutions that will give our customers a competitive advantage. Our product portfolio, w ..read more

“Operating a cloud infrastructure at global scale is a large and complex task, particularly when it comes to service standard and quality. In a previous blog, we shared how AIOps was leveraged to improve service quality, engineering efficiency, and customer experience. In this blog, I’ve asked Jian Zhang, Principal Program Manager from the AIOps Platform and Experiences team to share how AI and machine learning is used to automate memory leak detection, diagnosis, and mitigation for service quality.”—Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer, Azure. In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud com ..read more

I’ve met with customers and partners from around the world over the past few months and almost every one of them mentioned the same thing: how fast AI innovation is happening—much faster than the pace of change many are used to. While most see the transformative potential AI poses for their organization, many feel the technology isn’t sitting still long enough for them to fully understand what it means for them before something new is announced. The number of new items I share each month in this blog series is a great example of this ongoing change.  I don’t expect the pace to slow down ..read more

Today we are announcing significant changes to Azure AI Search in support for customers building production ready generative AI applications. Azure AI Search has drastically increased storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, so customers can run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at any scale, without having to compromise cost or performance.  In this post, we will walk through how customers: Can achieve more scalability at a lower cost with today’s changes. Trust Azure AI Search to handle their large RAG workloads.  Apply advanced search strategies to navigat ..read more