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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

Open Source

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

Open Source

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. In 2021, the three reunited and were joined by Lukose (an alum of Microsoft Azure, where he’d worked with George), to start Orkes.

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Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution

DevOps.com

MAY 7, 2019

Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. The post Logz.io

Open Source

Open Source Azure DevOps Cloud

Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

.” “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.

Azure

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Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco

InfoWorld

MARCH 15, 2024

Falco , the open-source, cloud-native, runtime security tool, recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program. That means it’s considered stable and ready for use in production environments, including Azure.

Azure

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Logz.io Allies with Microsoft on Open Source Observability

DevOps.com

JULY 29, 2021

this week announced an alliance with Microsoft that enables DevOps teams to deploy its observability platform—based on open source platforms such as ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Prometheus and Jaeger—on the Azure public cloud. platform via the Azure Console with […]. The post Logz.io

Open Source

Open Source Azure DevOps Cloud

Leveraging Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core Projects: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft's Azure Cloud services, along with Docker support for ASP.NET Core, present a compelling proposition for those aiming to enhance their project development lifecycle. Businesses are constantly seeking robust, scalable, and efficient solutions to develop, deploy, and manage their applications.

Azure

Azure Cloud IoT Open Source

All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

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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Kubernetes Deployment Using Azure DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

MAY 9, 2023

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that is used to manage and automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Azure DevOps is a cloud-based DevOps service that provides a complete CI/CD pipeline for building, testing, and deploying applications.

Azure

Azure DevOps Open Source Testing

Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI

Ooda Loop

MARCH 5, 2024

billion) into Mistral and announced it would bring Mistral’s newest AI model, Mistral Large, to Azure. But the investment into Mistral, mainly a developer of open-source AI models, […] Microsoft’s multiyear deal with French AI company Mistral signaled that the company wants longevity in the space.

Azure

Azure Open Source Company Development

Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud

DevOps.com

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Red Hat this week announced that a private preview of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Tom Anderson, vice president of Red Hat Ansible automation, said making the Red Hat instance of the open source automation framework available on Azure is the first step toward making it […].

Azure

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. It’s blocked.” And we’ve switched among different OpenAI models.

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Build Infrastructure as Code Efficiently With an Open Source Terraform Accelerator

Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 7, 2020

An open-source Terraform accelerator is a set of proven code and a platform that organizations can use to build their AWS and Azure infrastructures faster. Organizations can pick which part of the infrastructure they want to build at what time and choose services accordingly.

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Open-Source Authorization as a Service

Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Background Information The story starts back in 2007 when our founders, Omri Gazitt and Gert Drapers, were working on what would eventually become Azure Active Directory. The Azure Access Control Service and Azure Active Directory were early efforts towards reimagining identity and access for the age of SaaS and cloud.

Open Source

Open Source Azure Authentication Windows

MicroK8s: Up and Running in Azure

Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2020

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella, has taken a new stance on open-source , which to some is a complete flip-flop from the Microsoft of the past. Canonical fully supports the Ubuntu distribution running in Azure.

Azure

Azure Linux Open Source Groups

12 data science certifications that will pay off

CIO

JANUARY 19, 2024

Cost: Free Location: Online Duration: Self-paced Expiration: Credentials do not expire Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals Microsoft’s Azure AI Fundamentals certification validates your knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts, and how they relate to Microsoft Azure services.

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WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

WhiteSource has added the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to the list of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms its open source vulnerability scanning tools natively supports. The post WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

Azure

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Deploying Grafana to Azure App Service with Terraform (and Active Directory integration)

Xebia

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Grafana is a free and open source platform which allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics. In Azure you can get your Grafana up and running by different means: Use Azure Managed Grafana. Deploy Grafana on Azure App Service. Azure account with Owner rights on your subscription.

Azure

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It will provide access to Azure features, including speech recognition and sentiment analysis, and the ability to add more sophisticated features through Power Platform connectors and Power Automate workflows, all with governance features so that IT is still in control. Maia has a companion, Azure Cobalt, for general (non-AI) workloads.

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Tenable Announces Support for Microsoft Azure Linux: A New Way to Achieve Secure Container Development

Tenable

MAY 24, 2023

With the launch of Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft enters the open-source Linux distribution container sphere with enhanced security Kubernetes experience. In this blog, we explain key features of Azure Linux and how Tenable can support the security needs of Microsoft customers.

Linux

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Which Is Best for Your MariaDB Cloud Migration: Azure or an Azure VM?

Datavail

AUGUST 26, 2021

MariaDB is a powerful open-source relational database that can expand to even more functionality when you migrate it to Azure Database for MariaDB. The Benefits of Moving to Azure for MariaDB. Azure’s cloud platform offers many benefits, especially if you’re migrating an on-premises MariaDB database.

Azure

Azure Cloud Database Administration Disaster Recovery

One-Click Deploying EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure Using Terraform

Dzone - DevOps

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As a popular open-source MQTT broker, EMQX provides high scalability, reliability, and security for MQTT messaging. By using Terraform, a widespread Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, you can automate the deployment of EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure, making it easy to set up and manage your MQTT infrastructure.

Azure

Azure IoT Open Source Scalability

To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). Picture this scenario as a young enterprise: You are a customer of Azure, AWS, or the Google Cloud Platform, assuming they are the frontrunners.

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Open Source Enterprise Software Review IPv6

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

Insight used the Azure OpenAI Service to do this. One option, however, is to use open source software. For example, patient health company Aiberry uses customized open-source models, including Flan-T5, Llama 2, and Vicuna, says Michael Mullarkey, the company’s senior clinical data scientist.

Artificial Inteligence

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Streamline CI/CD with Azure DevOps Toolchains

Datavail

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps platform has the CI/CD tool chains you need to do just that. The evolving Azure DevOps tool kit that embraces CI/CD development offers solutions to those challenges: The need for extended security. Azure DevOps Platform Delivers Top-of-Line CI/CD Toolchains. Features of Azure Pipelines.

Azure

Azure DevOps Testing Serverless

How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Today, we are excited to announce PostgreSQL 14’s General Availability (GA) on Azure’s Hyperscale (Citus) option. In upcoming months, we will roll out Postgres 14 across more Azure regions and also release it with our new Flexible Server option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Favorite new features in PostgreSQL 14.

Azure

Azure Software Review Testing Open Source

MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances.

Azure

Azure Performance Open Source Infrastructure

Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

JUNE 5, 2019

Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines.

Azure

Azure DevOps Open Source Tools

Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box

Perficient

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s an open-source provisioning tool written in the Go language and created by HashiCorp. Even if your servers come from different providers such as AWS or Azure, terraform helps you build and manage these resources in parallel across multiple providers. devcontainers/features/azure-cli:1": {}, "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/terraform:1":

Azure

Azure Resources Storage Disaster Recovery

Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

JULY 14, 2023

Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. By using Azure OpenAI Service, we were able to create an AI assistant much faster than build an AI in-house, so we were able to spend our time on improving usability.”

Generative AI

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Hire a Kubernetes DevOps: Azure & AWS

Mobilunity

MAY 18, 2021

DevOps Kubernetes works in combination with other open-source platforms to maximize efficiency and exploit the full potential of Kube, including Dockers, Open vSwitch, Hipster, LDAP. Who Is Azure Kubernetes DevOps Expert and When They Are Needed? SELinux, and others.). Benefits of Opting for Kubernetes DevOps.

Azure

Azure AWS DevOps Recruiting

The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

JUNE 14, 2023

The exam tests knowledge of Cloudera Data Visualization, Cloudera Machine Learning, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, and Cloudera Data Warehouse, as well as SQL, Apache Nifi, Apache Hive, and other open source technologies. The exam consists of 40 questions and the candidate has 120 minutes to complete it.

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Big Data Analytics Data eLearning

New Citus Technical README for distributed PostgreSQL

The Citus Data

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Check out this brand new Citus Technical README on our GitHub repo for the open source Citus database extension. Well, it's designed to offer something valuable for everyone from Citus open source users to PostgreSQL extension developers. Want to dive right in? Who should check out this new Citus Technical Readme?

Azure

Azure Open Source Scalability Architecture

Fugue Announces IaC Security for AWS CloudFormation in Regula, the Open-Source Policy Engine

DevOps.com

MAY 11, 2021

The post Fugue Announces IaC Security for AWS CloudFormation in Regula, the Open-Source Policy Engine appeared first on DevOps.com. The post Fugue Announces IaC Security for AWS CloudFormation in Regula, the Open-Source Policy Engine appeared first on DevOps.com. Cloud […].

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AutoCloud raises $4M to commercialize its OSS cloud visualization service

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

AutoCloud is the commercial side of the CloudGraph open source project. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. announced a $30 million raise for its commercial and open source approach to neural search, for a more early-stage example.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Google Cloud Metrics

Fix a faulty Virtual Machine Using Nested Virtualization in Azure

Cloud That

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Azure is a platform for open-source cloud computing. Step 1: Sign into the Azure portal, In the VM Blade Copy the Public IP and RDP to the VM. With the release of Windows Server 2016, features were added to Azure and Hyper-V virtual machines that can aid in problem-solving. Conclusion. About CloudThat. Conclusion.

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CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

We have been developing our own internal AI capability over the last few years using open-source models. Though a multicloud environment, the agency has most of its cloud implementations hosted on Microsoft Azure, with some on AWS and some on ServiceNow’s 311 citizen information platform.

Artificial Inteligence

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Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs: It’s Time to Migrate

ParkMyCloud

JULY 21, 2020

We get requests from customers occasionally about whether ParkMyCloud can manage Microsoft Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs. Since Azure has already announced the deprecation of Azure classic resources – albeit not until March 2023 – you’ll find similar answers from other third-party services. Azure Classic vs. ARM VM Comparison.

Azure

Azure Storage Virtualization Resources

History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The MongoDB development happened when the organization was putting all force into developing a Microsoft Azure-type PaaS in 2007. MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. MongoDB was an open-source database, and the company offered commercial support services.

Open Source

Open Source Storage Azure Scalability

Migrating Data to Azure Synapse with Confluent’s Fully Managed Connector to Unlock Real-Time Advanced Analytics

Confluent

APRIL 8, 2022

Azure Synapse users are looking to unlock access to on-premises, open source, and hybrid cloud systems to extend advanced analytics capabilities for their organizations. Building connectivity between all your distributed […].

Azure

Azure Analytics Open Source Data

Mastering Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes Environments Using KEDA

Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 25, 2024

KEDA is an open-source project that extends Kubernetes capabilities to provide event-driven autoscaling. Unlike traditional horizontal pod auto scalers that scale based on CPU or memory usage, KEDA reacts to events from various sources like Kafka, RabbitMQ , Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS, etc. What Is KEDA?

Azure

Azure Open Source AWS Cloud

Cloudera Data Warehouse outperforms Azure HDInsight in TPC-DS benchmark

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to Microsoft HDInsight (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Azure using the TPC-DS 2.9 You can easily set up CDP on Azure using scripts here. Microsoft recently announced their latest version of HDInsight 4.1.

Azure

Azure Data Comparison Virtualization

Winnti Evolution - Going Open Source.

ProtectWise

JULY 11, 2017

Evolution of Winnti - Open source tools, and macOS targeting: Within the Winnti campaigns observed by ProtectWise, the use of open source tooling was common. The use of open source tools by advanced actor groups has become increasingly common, as discussed by our colleagues in the industry.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Webinars

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

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Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution

Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco

Logz.io Allies with Microsoft on Open Source Observability

Leveraging Azure Cloud and Docker for ASP.NET Core Projects: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

Kubernetes Deployment Using Azure DevOps

Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI

Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud

5 ways to deploy your own large language model

Build Infrastructure as Code Efficiently With an Open Source Terraform Accelerator

Open-Source Authorization as a Service

MicroK8s: Up and Running in Azure

12 data science certifications that will pay off

WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps

Deploying Grafana to Azure App Service with Terraform (and Active Directory integration)

Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

Tenable Announces Support for Microsoft Azure Linux: A New Way to Achieve Secure Container Development

Which Is Best for Your MariaDB Cloud Migration: Azure or an Azure VM?

One-Click Deploying EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure Using Terraform

To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

Streamline CI/CD with Azure DevOps Toolchains

How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps

Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box

Should you build or buy generative AI?

Hire a Kubernetes DevOps: Azure & AWS

The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

New Citus Technical README for distributed PostgreSQL

Fugue Announces IaC Security for AWS CloudFormation in Regula, the Open-Source Policy Engine

AutoCloud raises $4M to commercialize its OSS cloud visualization service

Fix a faulty Virtual Machine Using Nested Virtualization in Azure

CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs: It’s Time to Migrate

History of MongoDB

Migrating Data to Azure Synapse with Confluent’s Fully Managed Connector to Unlock Real-Time Advanced Analytics

Mastering Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes Environments Using KEDA

Cloudera Data Warehouse outperforms Azure HDInsight in TPC-DS benchmark

Winnti Evolution - Going Open Source.

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