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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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Mastering Azure management: A comparative analysis of leading cloud platforms

CIO

Azures growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. Enterprises must focus on resource provisioning, automation, and monitoring to optimize cloud environments. As Azure environments grow, managing and optimizing costs becomes paramount.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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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

By modernizing and shifting legacy workloads to the cloud, organizations are able to improve the performance and reliability of their applications while reducing infrastructure cost and management.

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Best practices for migrating between public clouds

CIO

Historically, cloud migration usually meant moving on-premises workloads to a public cloud, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. Instead, businesses are facing a new challenge: How to move workloads from one public cloud to another. Why migrate between clouds?

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Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

CIO

At Cloud Next 2025, Google announced several updates that could help CIOs adopt and scale agents while reducing integration complexity and costs. While Microsoft offers agent-building capabilities via Copilot Studio and Azure Studio inside Azure AI Foundry, AWS offers agent-building capabilities via Amazon Bedrock.

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

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud!

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

How to enable data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud. 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.