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Google EU complaint: Microsoft is punishing enterprises that use rivals to Azure

CIO

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. Now the company is running the same playbook to push companies to Azure, its cloud platform.

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Autoscaling Azure DevOps Pipelines Agents with KEDA

Xebia

These pipelines require a complex set of tools installed on self-hosted Azure DevOps agents. To address these challenges, our architect proposed using Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling as an auto-scaling solution for our Azure DevOps Agent Pools. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ), database events, HTTP requests, and many more.

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What Does Azure DevOps Services Cost?

Xebia

It is a question I often get when I talk to customers about Azure DevOps. Some of them run on-premises Azure DevOps Server and wonder what it costs to run it in the Cloud as a SaaS service. Keep in mind that the Azure Pricing Calculator or Azure DevOps Pricing is your friend! Up until 5 users it remains free.

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Oracle brings its database infrastructure to Microsoft Azure

TechCrunch

Days after Oracle missed Q1 2023 revenue expectations and gave a downbeat rest-of-year outlook, sending its share price to suffer the worst one-day performance in 21 years, the cloud provider announced a team-up with Microsoft to co-locate a portion of its infrastructure in the Azure cloud.

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Modernizing Workloads with the Cloud: How to Improve Performance & Reduce Costs

In this eBook, learn best practices on planning a successful migration, monitoring containerized applications in Azure, and monitoring PaaS and serverless applications in Azure.

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Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work

TechCrunch

Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum Elements service to whittle down millions of potential new battery materials to only a few — with one of them now in the prototype stage. Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S.

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Enterprise-Level Azure DevOps Permissions From The Trenches

Xebia

Or how to implement role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure DevOps in enterprise environments and still keep it maintainable. Introduction and key values Assigning permissions to users and groups of users in Azure DevOps in small companies, maybe up to about 25-50 employees is easy and straightforward. It’s not what they’re made for.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings. In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success.

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The Practical Guide to Using a Semantic Layer for Data & Analytics

Download this guide for practical advice on how to use a semantic layer to unlock data for AI & BI at scale. You’ll learn how a semantic layer delivers massive ROI with streamlined query performance, concurrency, cost management, and ease of use.