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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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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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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

.” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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Managed DevOps Pools: Simplifying Azure DevOps Setup

Xebia

Have you ever had to deploy, configure, and maintain your own DevOps agents, be it for Azure DevOps or GitHub? This allows the agents to use private DNS zones, private endpoints, your own Azure Firewall (or an appliance) and with the added benefit of having Microsoft maintain these resources. So what’s the managed part then?

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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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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

” Nerdio’s platform lets customers deploy, manage and cost-optimize virtual desktops running in Microsoft Azure, extending the capabilities of Azure Virtual Desktop , Microsoft’s cloud-based system for virtualizing Windows. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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How to configure Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation for Azure DevOps

Xebia

Deploying Google Cloud (GCP) resources via Azure Pipelines used to require service account keys. Today, however, Azure DevOps OIDC tokens can be exchanged to Google credentials using Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation. Azure DevOps Tokens Azure Pipelines use Service Connections to access external resources.

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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.