On April 16, 2025, Microsoft released new AI models on Azure AI Foundry with significantly improved capabilities for coding, instruction following, and long-context processing. This article looks at these new models in detail to help you with the decision on what models to use
Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud platform that offers a growing collection of integrated services for organizations. This guide will help you navigate Azure’s licensing landscape effectively, ensuring you can optimize costs and maximize the benefits of its services. What is Microsoft Azure?
Starting May 1, 2025, Microsoft Azure AD External Identities is no longer available for new customers. While there are no service or billing impacts for existing customers, net new customers will no longer be able to create B2C tenants. This means that new customers will
Effective February 21, 2025, Microsoft has released a pricing calculator Excel-sheet for Azure Site Recovery (ASR). This calculator helps you estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ASR scenarios. It provides a detailed cost breakdown of the different components involved in ASR for
Effective March 24, 2025, Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced several new advancements in their collaboration to accelerate AI development and performance. These changes include the integration of the newest NVIDIA Blackwell platform with Azure AI services infrastructure, the launch of NVIDIA NeMo Inference Microservices
Effective February 26, 2025, Microsoft has completed the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, offering enhanced data residency and transparency for European customers. This allows you to store and process your customer data and pseudonymized personal data for Microsoft core cloud services within
Effective March 2025, various new AI models have been introduced to Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. These include OpenAI GPT-4.5, Microsoft Phi-4-multimodal, Microsoft Phi-4-mini, Stability AI’s latest generative imaging models, and OpenAI o3-mini. Also, Cohere ReRank v3.5, OpenAI GPT-4o-Audio-Preview and GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview have been added. Let’s
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On February 10, 2025, Microsoft announced the availability of Azure for mission-critical workloads in healthcare. This new offering aims to enhance the performance, security, and reliability of electronic health record (EHR) systems and other critical healthcare applications. What is Azure for Mission-Critical
Effective April 22, 2025, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID and Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID are available. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory (AD)) faces over 600 million attacks daily. This is why protecting your organization’s digital identity is critical and where these new solutions come into
Effective April 16, 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot customers can measure their real AI adoption using the AI Adoption Score Report in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This new feature provides a simple and effective overview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot usage in your organization. What is the AI Adoption
Coming in May 2025, Microsoft will introduce six new agentic solutions within the Microsoft Security Copilot suite in public preview. These agents are designed to autonomously handle high-volume security and IT tasks, and integrate seamlessly with existing Microsoft Security solutions. What is Microsoft Security Copilot? Microsoft Security Copilot is a