Microsoft and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to help developers build AI-enabled applications using Azure AI and NVIDIA AI. This partnership aims to make advanced AI capabilities more accessible and reduce the complexity and cost of AI development. What are Azure AI and NVIDIA
Effective July 18, 2024, OpenAI’s fastest model, GPT-4o mini, is available on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This model offers significant improvements in speed, cost, and multilingual capabilities. It supports text processing with excellent speed, and image, audio, and video capabilities will be added later.
From July 1, 2024, Microsoft expands purchasing options in Azure OpenAI to include the Provisioned Throughput Unit (PTU) offer. PTU is a provisioned-capacity offer that provides consistent latency for uniform workloads. This is available through SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT as your Cloud Solution Provider (CSP),
Effective July 1, 2024, Microsoft ended its free Azure Standard Support offer for customers using Enterprise Agreements (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreements (MCA-E). Only subscription management and billing support remain free. Azure Support Plan Offer No Longer Available Microsoft’s Support Plan which provided
Effective July 1, 2024, SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT introduces updated Premier Support Plans for Microsoft products, that bring Microsoft Premier Support at attractive conditions to customers. With coverage of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft On-premises software (not included in Basic), support requests get resolved
On July 1, 2024, Microsoft has announced that there will be no price adjustments for its Commercial Cloud and On-Premises software services in September 2024. This decision comes in light of the relative stability of foreign exchange rates with the U.S. dollar. Commitment
Effective May 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine (VM), Azure Dedicated Host, and Azure App Service offerings has been extended until further notice. An exchange refers to modifying an existing reservation by changing its attributes, such as
Effective May 21, 2024, new AI-models join Microsoft Azure AI. GPT-4o and GPT-4 Turbo are now available in Azure AI Studio and as an application programming interface (API). Phi-3-vision, a new cost-effective model, also became available in Azure. GPT-4o GPT-4o is OpenAI’s newest
Are you evaluating new options for your VMware environment? Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is an easy solution to migrate your existing VMware environment to the cloud. With AVS, you gain business agility and access to unlimited innovation technologies. You migrate using the VMware
Until September 30, 2025, there is a promotion, offering 15% off Microsoft 365 E3/E5 to eligible, new-to-Microsoft 365 E3/E5 customers in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) licensing program. This is interesting for organizations transitioning from e.g., Office 365 E3 or a Microsoft competitor. On June 24, 2025, this promotion was
Until September 30, 2025, Microsoft is providing a discount of 15 % for 10 to 2400 seat purchases of Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. On April 21, 2025, the license cap with increased from 300 to 2400 licenses. On June 24, 2025, this promo has
Effective May 21, 2025, Microsoft has officially launched two new free offers regarding Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. These offers are now generally available and allow organizations to explore, develop, and test SQL workloads in Azure at no cost. Free SQL Managed Instance offer One General