TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

” 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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Xebia

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Not an easy task considering that Azure has more than 200 services and products at the time of writing. Up until now, Bicep was a domain-specific language for Azure resource deployments. It has now been extended to include Radius resources, Kubernetes resources and Dapr resources. (It environment: env.id

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Perficient

JANUARY 9, 2025

Objective Automate the deployment of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform Cloud Workspaces. Download and Install Azure CLI and Terraform Step 1: Install Azure CLI Visit [link] Download and install the CLI on your system. Step 3: Initialize Terraform Run the terraform init command to download Azure provider plugins.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s examine common security risks, understand the importance of data encryption and various robust authentication methods such as Azure AD and shared access signatures, explore strategies for network protection, and emphasize the value of logging for enhanced oversight. By default, Azure Service Bus supports TLS 1.2

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2024

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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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Solution Overview Our solution for QuickSight resource version control comprises two main parts: 1. Publish Dashboard Pipeline This Azure DevOps pipeline can be triggered by dashboard authors. Each resource is organized by its display name and object ID, ensuring that name duplicates do not cause overwrites.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, when you are running a workload that is maintained by external parties or from public and open sources repositories you should be extra careful and make sure it can only access the resources it needs to access. You can see it like a firewall or compare it to an Azure Network Security Group on a virtual network.

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Tenable

MARCH 4, 2025

Creating custom Roles in Azure can be a complex process that may yield long and unwieldy Role definitions that are difficult to manage. Read on to learn how you can simplify this process using the Azure NotActions and NotDataActions attributes, and create custom Azure Roles that are compact, manageable and dare we say it?

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Introduction As organizations scale their DevOps practices, the need for efficient resource management and automation becomes critical. These pipelines require a complex set of tools installed on self-hosted Azure DevOps agents. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ), database events, HTTP requests, and many more. What exactly is KEDA?

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. Model training costs: Monitor expenses related to computational resources during model development.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Xebia

JUNE 18, 2024

In this blogpost, we’re going to show how you can turn this opaqueness into transparency by using Astronomer Cosmos to automatically render your dbt project into an Airflow DAG while running dbt on Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances allow you to run containers on-demand in a dedicated environment. Kubernetes 3.

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Perficient

APRIL 9, 2025

Azure AI Search could be just the tool you need! What is Azure AI Search? Azure AI Search is Microsoft’s cloud-based search service powered by AI. Smooth integration with other Azure services. However, it doesnt offer the advanced AI features, scalability, or flexibility that Azure provides right off the bat.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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Xebia

MAY 14, 2024

In August 2021, I was accepted to test and provide feedback on what was referred to as ‘Azure Worker Apps’, another Azure service Microsoft was developing to run containers. Fast forward, that service is now known as Azure Container Apps. This is where Azure Web Apps for Containers comes into play.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

All the major cloud providers from North America AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud are on par with each other, with most of their services and capabilities are primed to address the needs of any enterprise. You get a subscription and begin deploying resources. How difficult can it be, after all?

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Imagine your company having a multitude of Azure resources, and you want to ensure all of them are compliant with your company’s standards. You could go through each resource and check if they are compliant, but that would be a lot of work. Luckily, Azure Policy can help you with that. But why would you use it?

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Prisma Clud

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the beginning of July 2023, I took a stroll around the azure/login GitHub Action repository. The issue was titled “ SECURITY: Azure/login in some cases leaks Azure Application Variables to the GitHub build log ”. Figure 1: Security issue reported in the Azure/login project Well this is pretty straight forward, I thought.

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Xebia

APRIL 7, 2024

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. Use this blog to configure Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation for Azure DevOps.

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Tenable

JUNE 3, 2024

Azure customers whose firewall rules rely on Azure Service Tags, pay attention: You could be at risk due to a vulnerability detected by Tenable Research. Here’s what you need to know to determine if you’re affected, and if so, what you should do right away to protect your Azure environment from attackers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

SAIC, a technology integrator serving the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets, in May 2024 introduced its Tenjin GPT on Microsoft Azure and the OpenAI platform to all 24,000 of the company’s employees. However,” he adds, “the [just-in-time] analogy holds for the high cost and high resource consumption of gen AI.

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Xebia

JANUARY 30, 2024

DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content. I’m building this in an Azure Durable Function to deal with these long-running processes. I used a new Azure Machine Learning feature called Prompt Flow to make my prompt.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

While many cloud cost solutions either provide recommendations for high-level optimization or support workflows that tune workloads, Sync goes deeper, Chou and Bramhavar say , with app-specific details and suggestions based on algorithms designed to “order” the appropriate resources.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services. However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Users who expected to be able to use the resources of the Azure content delivery network (CDN) from Edgio until November 2025, as previously announced, had a not-so-festive gift this week the CDN is now shutting down on Jan. Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions installation tools are dependent on some of these resources, he added.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In March this year, Microsoft made another offering in Azure generally available: Azure Deployment Environments. Azure Deployment Environments lets development teams quickly and easily spin up app infrastructure. Azure Deployment Environments are part of Azure Dev Center, which also houses the Azure Dev Boxes.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In Azure you can get your Grafana up and running by different means: Use Azure Managed Grafana. This is a fully managed service which can become a feasible option if there are no resources to spare on maintaining your monitoring solution. Deploy Grafana on Azure App Service. Let’s create the resource group.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to access resources that would otherwise be unavailable to them as well as execute code, such as remote procedure call (RPC) functions. Microsoft patched 87 CVEs in its November 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with four rated critical, 82 rated important and one rated moderate.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Maintaining privacy and ensuring secure access to critical resources is a critical task for IT teams in today’s multi-cloud and hybrid environments Azure Arc-enabling organizations to extend the functionality and security capabilities of Azure on-premises and in the cloud. What is Azure Arc? What Does Azure Arc Do?

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. You get all the emissions from all the subscriptions under the provided enrollment ID per subscription and resource type.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Introduction Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a popular machine learning service. Azure ML provides a lot of predefined functionality for deploying machine learning model endpoints, which is great. Use the Azure ML Python SDK to configure and manage deployment to Azure ML. " azure-ai-ml=="1.13.0"

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Perficient

AUGUST 12, 2024

Azure Integration Services (AIS) and MuleSoft are two prominent players in this field. Azure Integration Services is a cloud-based integration platform provided by Microsoft, while MuleSoft is an integration platform that allows developers to connect applications, data, and devices. Here are five major benefits of AIS over MuleSoft.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That’s obviously not a huge round, but the investors will likely make you perk up a bit: Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, TA Ventures and angels like GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. Because I was at Microsoft — I had all the resources. “It was super hard,” he said.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Microsoft’s Azure Integration Services , a suite of tools designed to seamlessly connect applications, data, and processes, is emerging as a game-changer for the financial services industry. Azure Integration Services minimize the need for extensive physical hardware and maintenance, resulting in significant cost savings.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. “In a capital-constrained environment, startups need to demonstrate traction and revenue growth.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Take advantage of modeling and cost estimator tools that can help IT model configurations and better understand resource needs and budget impacts for a shift from legacy VDI to DaaS. For more insights into DaaS, read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report , notably its overview of Microsoft Azure Desktop.

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