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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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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. Google elaborated on its official reasons for the EU filing in a blog post. “For

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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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Publish Azure DevOps Extensions using Azure Workload Identity

Xebia

As you may know, I maintain several Azure DevOps Extensions. To publish them I use the Azure DevOps extension tasks. If you need help configuring a basic CI/CD pipeline for an Azure DevOps Extension, check out the guidance on Microsoft Learn ). Recently the whole of Azure DevOps got support for Workload Identities.

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Keyless Google Cloud deployments from Azure Pipelines

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. This blog uses the Google Cloud Auth to do so. First, the Google Credentials are exchanged.

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Self-Guided Meditations With AI On Azure

Xebia

Whether it’s a blog/manual/podcast you’re trying to produce, Large Language Models can help you to create unique content if you use them correctly. DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content. You can use GPT-4 through the OpenAI APIs or Azure OpenAI Service.

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DevSecOps in Azure

DevOps.com

Microsoft’s Azure cloud is known […]. The post DevSecOps in Azure appeared first on DevOps.com. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching existing and new tools. However, in the cloud, much of the environment is determined by your cloud provider.

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