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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

TechCrunch

.” 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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Investigating az-cli performance on the hosted Azure Pipelines and GitHub Runners

Xebia

Azure CLI is a great nifty tool to chat to Azure as well as Azure DevOps and there’s a AzureCLI@v2 task in Azure DevOps that preconfigures your Azure subscription and all.While testing I got increasingly frustrated by how slow az is on GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines hosted runners.

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Azure Virtual Machine Tutorial

The Crazy Programmer

Prerequisites: Microsoft Azure Subscription. Windows, macOS, Ubuntu). So he needs Windows and Ubuntu to run and test his game. So now you understand what is Virtual Machine, let’s see how to create one using Microsoft Azure. How to Create a Virtual Machine in Azure? Windows 10 pro, Ubuntu Server ).

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Microsoft adds high-level governance to low-code tools

CIO

Whenever CIOs talk about using low-code tools to enable citizen development, a recurring theme is how to ensure appropriate governance of the applications produced. Microsoft also had plenty to say about updates to its Azure cloud infrastructure offering, and an update of Syntex, its AI content management tool. Cost cutting.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO

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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HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud

DevOps.com

HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. of Terraform (TF) AzureRM Provider will allow IT teams to separately configure virtual machines by type for instance of both Windows and […].

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A first look at Windows AI Studio

InfoWorld

Microsoft used the developer-focused parts of its Ignite 2023 event to introduce a series of AI development tools. Azure AI Studio supports large-scale AI development for cloud-hosted applications, using Azure OpenAI models or others, while Copilot Studio extends the older Power Virtual Agents low-code AI tools with OpenAI-powered “boosts.”

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