The Challenge: Outbound Control in a Serverless World Serverless compute resources run in the serverless compute plane, and is managed by Microsoft, for ease of use.  Databricks serverless provides...

  Hello Champions! Hope you've enjoyed your summer so far. The Microsoft 365 Champions program is back from our annual Summer hiatus. Here is a recap and top Q+A from our September monthly cal...

 These models, grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning, empower developers with distinct approaches to suit their application needs. Each model brings advanced capabilities such as struct...

Introduction A large enterprise customer set out to build a generative AI application using Azure OpenAI. While the app would be hosted on-premises, the customer wanted to leverage the latest large...

Introduction In today’s cloud-native landscape, organizations are accelerating the deployment of web applications at unprecedented speed. But with rapid scale comes increased complexity—and a growi...

In our previous Defender for Cloud Storage Security blog, we likened cloud storage to a high-tech museum - housing your organization’s most valuable artifacts, from sensitive data to AI training sets...

For over 100 years, Toastmasters International has helped millions conquer glossophobia—the fear of public speaking—through live practice, structured feedback, and a strong sense of community. From l...

When people hear “OneDrive,” they often think of a simple place to stash files. But Microsoft OneDrive is far more than a digital filing cabinet—it’s a powerful tool for collaboration, backup, and pr...

Abstract   The theme of this blog is “Simplicity”. Today’s HPC user has an overabundance of choices when it comes to HPC Schedulers, clouds, infrastructure in those clouds, and data management solu...