Performance testing is instrumental in ensuring a consistent and reliable user experience. The role of performance testing is pivotal as it assesses an application’s responsiveness, stability, and speed under varying conditions. By simulating different user loads and scenarios, performance testing acts as a proactive measure to identify potential bottlenecks, ensuring that the application can handle […]
Microsoft named a Leader in cloud and applications-centric marketplaces: IDC MarketScape
With budgets for cloud services expanding and the complexity of infrastructure rising, marketplaces are positioned as the future of B2B commerce. Industry analysts are taking note—most recently IDC published its first-ever IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud and Applications-Centric Marketplaces 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc # US51037123, December 2023). The Microsoft commercial marketplace was named a Leader in […]
Spotify’s Approach to Leverage Recursive Embedding and Clustering to Enhanced Data Explainability
One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable insight from their data for decision-making. Spotify shares its methodology and experience to solve this problem by clustering diverse data sets through a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning. By Reza Rahimi
Shopify’s Approach to Leverage Recursive Embedding and Clustering to Enhanced Data Explainability
One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable insight from their data for decision-making. Shopify shares its methodology and experience to solve this problem by clustering diverse data sets through a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning. By Reza Rahimi
Dynatrace and the Microsoft commercial marketplace: AI-powered cloud transformation
In today’s digital landscape, the cloud has become a cornerstone for over 90%1 of organizations. This widespread adoption brings a growing complexity to cloud portfolios as companies navigate the challenges of migrating on-premises environments, managing hybrid workloads, and modernizing their cloud estate—all while operating under current business imperatives of speed and scale. To overcome this, […]
Netflix Creates Incremental Processing Solution Using Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform. The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets. The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities. By […]
What’s new in Azure Data, AI, & Digital Applications: Modernize your data estate, build intelligent apps, and apply AI solutions
I write this blog each month to help navigate through the intense pace of news and innovation we’re releasing for customers. And what a year we’ve had! We witnessed incredible advances at breathtaking speed as AI reshaped what’s possible across industries, organizations, and our day-to-day lives. Personally, I’m loving the features and capabilities of Copilot […]
Microsoft is a leader in the 2023 IDC MarketScape for AI Governance Platforms
AI is transforming every industry, enabling new levels of productivity, efficiency, and innovation. AI governance is not only a matter of compliance and risk management, but also a strategic advantage and a source of trust to accelerate returns on AI investment. We are excited to announce that Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the […]
Azure OpenAI Service powers the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem
Many AI systems are designed for collaboration: Copilot is one of them. Copilot—powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service—allows you to simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge. It utilizes language models, the Azure control plane, and insights about your Azure and Arc-enabled assets. All of this is […]
Create new ways to serve your mission with Microsoft Azure Space
Since launching Microsoft Azure Space, we’ve been focused on three main goals: Connect anyone, anywhere, at any security level, back to the full power and potential of the Microsoft Cloud. This includes working with exciting space start-ups like Muon Space and True Anomaly as well as government agencies like the United States Space Force. Enable […]