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 for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We're […]
Archives for January 2023
Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2023
Microsoft named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide
We are excited that for the fifth consecutive time Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide. We believe this placement is a testament to our continued investments in customers' integration needs. An integration solution for all developers Enterprise business depends on all […]
Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure
At Microsoft, we learned a lot from moving our internal operations to Microsoft Azure, lessons we use to make our cloud products work better for our customers. As a top user of Azure, we understand our customers’ obstacles and constraints. Just like them, we’re under pressure to "do more with less" in these challenging fiscal […]
Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-Purpose Computer Vision AI Software Platform 2022 Vendor Assessment
I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-purpose Computer Vision AI Software Platform 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49776422, November 2022). The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The […]
Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes
Digital transformation across organizations has led to workloads shifting to multicloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Modern organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-native technologies including containers, microservices, serverless, and more. With the growing complexity of distributed applications deployed on a cloud-native landscape, can organizations survive without the right observability in place? It would be like flying an airplane […]
Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service provides seamless, secure data storage
The amount of data created and consumed is expected to grow exponentially over the next decade. This proliferation has radically changed enterprise data storage requirements. Today, enterprises are in search of storage solutions with unlimited capacity and performance scaling capabilities alongside their core requirements of data security and availability. Azure cloud services have been the […]
Amazon Athena Now Supports Apache Spark Engine
Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications. By Renato Losio
Apache Druid 25.0 Delivers Multi-Stage Query Engine and Kubernetes Task Management
Apache Druid is a high-performance real-time datastore and its latest release, version 25.0, provides many improvements and enhancements. The main new features are: the multi-stage query (MSQ) task engine used for SQL-based ingestion is now production ready; Kubernetes can be used to launch and manage tasks eliminating the need for middle managers… By Andrea Messetti
Article: Data Protection Methods for Federal Organizations and Beyond
The Federal Data Strategy describes a plan to “accelerate the use of data to deliver on mission, serve the public, and steward resources while protecting security, privacy, and confidentiality. This article covers what it is and how it can be applied to any organization. By Alex Tray