We have seen many businesses make significant shifts toward cloud computing in the last decade. The Microsoft Azure public cloud offers many benefits to companies, such as increased flexibility, scalability, and availability of resources. However, with the increased usage of resources, implementing best practices in cloud efficiency is a necessity to validate spending and avoid waste. What is cloud efficiency? It is the capacity to utilize cloud resources in the best possible way, and at the lowest possible cost while, at the same time, minimizing the waste of resources, and thus of energy and ..read more

We’re excited to announce that the Microsoft Azure Connected Learning Experience (CLX) program now has three new Data and AI tracks designed for data professionals. Personalized, self-paced, and culminating in a certificate of completion, these courses help you boost your data and AI skills your way—allowing you to maximize your learning in minimal time. New courses Who should attend? Course content AI-102: Designing and implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution Azure AI Engineer, AI Developer, AI Specialist This course boosts your understanding of building, managing, and dep ..read more

The agriculture industry is at a turning point. While food may seem plentiful in many global regions, the number of people going hungry has over the last nine years. To feed growing populations sustainably and efficiently, the way we produce food must change. From the soil—where improvements to farming practices can help mitigate climate change to the shelf—where customers look for products with minimal carbon footprint—the agriculture and food value chain is primed for innovation. That's why we’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is now available in ..read more

Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept at large-scale cluster computing. Azure Managed Lustre provides the high-performance storage of Lustre with the control and consistency of Microsoft’s cloud. As a result, customers can focus on their business goals, whether that’s building a fraud detection system based on SAS analytics, decoding the human genome to create the next breakthrough i ..read more

This post was co-authored by Ian Barron, Chief Technology Officer, RoQC. The vast amount of data in energy companies slows down their digital transformation. Together with RoQC solutions, Microsoft Energy Data Services will accelerate your journey in democratizing access to data by providing an easy-to-deploy managed service fully supported by Microsoft. Managing large data sets is complicated, and few industries have larger and more complex data sets than the energy industry. Data complexity and large investments in on-premises storage solutions and multitudes of computer systems prevent ..read more

In the modern business landscape, the intake of information and data is growing at an incredibly rapid pace. Organizations, regardless of size, need to quickly gain insights from all data to inform customer experiences and empower their employees. Current solutions are bespoke and siloed, leading to users spending considerable time and resources stitching together disparate products across a variety of vendors. This creates costly operational overhead and diverts resources away from value creation. In response to this high-pressure environment, many organizations are looking for cutting-edge d ..read more

Data is foundational to any digital transformation strategy, yet many organizations struggle to understand what data they have, how to extract insights from it, and how to govern it—according to a 2022 Evanta survey1, over half of Chief Data Officers (CDOs) struggle with siloed operating models when it comes to data sharing and democratization. According to Harvard Business Review2, organizations that have embraced their data as a strategic asset have been better positioned to drive strategic differentiation and grow their revenue, but the fragmentation that exists today between databases ..read more

Azure Data Explorer (ADX), a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log and telemetry data. It is the perfect service to analyze high volumes of fresh and historical data in the cloud by using SQL or the Kusto Query Language (KQL), a powerful and user-friendly query language. Azure Data Explorer is a key enabler for Microsoft’s own digital transformation. Virtually all Microsoft produc ..read more

This blog post is co-authored by Trent Norris, Cloud and Data Partner Alliances, HLS. This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver ..read more

This post was co-authored by Stuart Bailey, Product Director, Capita Healthcare Decisions This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deli ..read more