Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in

By Dustin Ward

Learn how multifactor authentication (MFA) can protect your data and identity and get ready for Azure’s upcoming MFA requirement.  As cyberattacks become increasingly frequent, sophisticated, and damaging, safeguarding your digital assets has never been more critical. As part of Microsoft’s $20 billion dollar investment in security over the next five years and our commitment to enhancing…

Elevate your AI deployments more efficiently with new deployment and cost management solutions for Azure OpenAI Service including self-service Provisioned

By Dustin Ward

We’re excited to announce significant updates for Azure OpenAI Service, designed to help our 60,000 plus customers manage AI deployments more efficiently and cost-effectively beyond current pricing. With the introduction of self-service Provisioned deployments, we aim to help make your quota and deployment processes more agile, faster to market, and more economical. The technical value…

GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions

By Dustin Ward

GitHub is the home of the world’s software developers, with more than 100 million developers and 420 million total repositories across the platform. To keep everything running smoothly and securely, GitHub collects a tremendous amount of data through an in-house pipeline made up of several components. But even though it was built for fault tolerance…

Announcing a new OpenAI feature for developers on Azure 

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the launch of OpenAI’s latest model on Azure. This new model, officially named GPT-4o-2024-08-06, brings innovative features designed to elevate developer experiences on Azure. Specifically, the new model focuses on enhancing productivity through Structured Outputs, like JSON Schemas, for the new GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models.  Azure OpenAI Service Build…

New Azure Data Box capabilities to accelerate your offline data migration

By Dustin Ward

Azure Data Box offline data transfer solution allows you send petabytes of data into Azure Storage in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. The secure data transfer is accelerated by hardware transfer devices that enable offline data ingestion to Azure. We’re excited to announce several new service capabilities including: General availability of self-encrypted drives Azure…

Build AI-enabled applications with Azure AI and NVIDIA

By Dustin Ward

Learn how Azure AI, combined with NVIDIA AI, can help you create innovative and intelligent solutions using your preferred tools and workflows. An explosion of interest in generative AI across many industries has sparked, a direct result of the collaboration of Microsoft and NVIDIA and the breakthrough technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As a result, artificial…