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Microsoft’s Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size

InfoWorld

Microsoft has updated its Azure AI Search service to increase storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, a move it said will make it more economical for enterprises to run generative AI-based applications.

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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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Lucidity keeps cloud block storage neat, tidy and cost-efficient

TechCrunch

Cloud storage is expensive ( especially in this economy ), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools. The startup announced today that is has raised $5.3 million in seed funding.

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Enabling GitHub Actions on Enterprise Server: Common gotcha’s

Xebia

When customers start using GitHub Enterprise with Actions and private runners, there are some common gotcha’s you can run into. Even Dependabot comes along, since that runs on Actions as well for GitHub Enterprise Server. All of those logs are stored then on cloud storage. will download the binaries they need from github.com.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

The dynamic nature of the cloud — and the need for continually optimize operations — often drives requirements unique to a CIO’s enterprise, meaning that even some popular third-party cloud cost optimization tools may no longer fit an enterprise’s specific requirements.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO

The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs.

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