Opinion

The ‘toggle-away’ efficiencies: Cutting AI costs inside the training loop

You don't need the newest GPUs to save money on AI; simple tweaks like "smoke tests" and fixing data bottlenecks can slash your cloud bill and carbon footprint.

By Jayachander Reddy Kandakatla

Mar 20, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AITechnology Industry

By Gautam Sikka

Mar 20, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSoftware DevelopmentTechnology Industry

Build or buy cloud-based generative AI?

The mantra for computing is to use other people’s technology, so it's surprising that generative AI doesn’t seem to follow that pattern for many enterprises.

By David Linthicum

Dec 15, 2023 4 mins

Careers Generative AI Technology Industry

Confidential computing in Microsoft Azure gets a boost

Hardware-backed confidential computing in Microsoft Azure now includes protected environments for VMs, containers, and GPUs, without the need to write specialized code.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 14, 2023 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Microsoft Azure

Companies aren’t ready to succeed with AI

A new study shows that AI won’t work without a lot more talent in the employment market. Enterprises will need to be innovative to win this one.

By David Linthicum

Dec 12, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Generative AI is off to a rough start

As the big vendors overstate the capabilities of their generative AI projects, maybe it’s time to use open source to keep them honest.

By Matt Asay

Dec 11, 2023 5 mins

Generative AI Open Source Technology Industry

Why your cloud database performance sucks

I’m having ‘Sixth Sense’ moments when I see dead databases walking. With GenAI poised to eat your data for lunch, it’s time to fix performance problems.

By David Linthicum

Dec 8, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Databases

Accelerating cloud native development in Microsoft Azure

From GPU support to reference implementations, the latest updates to Azure Container Apps combine Microsoft’s commitment to developer productivity with its latest AI development tools.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 7, 2023 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Can cloud computing be truly federated?

With the rising costs of the cloud and the availability of connected computing and storage resources, we could see colossal cloud brands that don’t own data centers.

By David Linthicum

Dec 5, 2023 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

AWS finally gets serious about genAI

At AWS re:Invent, the company announced significant AI advancements that may make AWS a leader in generative AI.

By Matt Asay

Dec 4, 2023 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

The evolution of multitenancy for cloud computing

We used to be a lot more interested in the mechanics of multitenancy. What are the exciting evolutions in the technologies that support it?

By David Linthicum

Dec 1, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Multicloud Technology Industry

Building GPT-boosted chatbots with Copilot Studio

Microsoft’s low-code and copilot-driven AI builder makes it easy to train chatbots on internal data, and ‘boost’ them with GPT and external data sources when appropriate.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 30, 2023 7 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning No Code and Low Code

Are we too focused on vendors?

The mega cloud conferences hosted by cloud providers never fail to mesmerize us with shiny new technology. We should focus on our business needs instead.

By David Linthicum

Nov 28, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Technology Industry

AI hype isn’t helping anyone

Billionaires’ promises of a utopian AI future aren’t helping us solve the serious problems with today’s generative AI models. Security is top of the list.

By Matt Asay

Nov 27, 2023 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Cloud security and devops have work to do

A recent study shows a narrowing gap between enterprises' application development skills and the likelihood of a vast data breach.

By David Linthicum

Nov 24, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Devops

Simplifying AI development with Azure AI Studio

Microsoft’s cloud-based AI development environment, now in public preview, takes a more streamlined approach to building AI-powered applications.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 23, 2023 8 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

What’s missing from cloud training

Most training covers cloud brand-related skills. However, if we’re looking for talent to scale, we must go broad rather than deep.

By David Linthicum

Nov 21, 2023 4 mins

Careers Certifications Cloud Computing

Reining in the BS in AI

Large language models trained on questionable stuff online will produce more of the same. Retrieval augmented generation is one way to get closer to truth.

By Matt Asay

Nov 20, 2023 4 mins

Emerging Technology Generative AI Technology Industry

A cloud professional’s cloud predictions for 2024

Predictions are the ability to see the continuation of existing patterns. Yes, genAI is on the list, as well as the talent crunch and the partnership between business and IT.

By David Linthicum

Nov 17, 2023 5 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Generative AI

What’s new and improved in Microsoft’s .NET 8

Leaner container images, simpler code syntax, and a welcome surprise—.NET Aspire, an opinionated stack for building cloud-native applications with .NET.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 16, 2023 7 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Everyone in cloud computing is scurrying to find a genAI strategy

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon just concluded with another land grab for generative AI. What does this mean for the enterprise?

By David Linthicum

Nov 14, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI Software Development

GitHub’s all-in bet on AI may overlook Git

Not everyone wants AI to do everything for them. Will the risk of losing transparency and visibility into code change how GitHub made collaborative coding so powerful?

By Matt Asay

Nov 13, 2023 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Version Control Systems

Will generative AI in the cloud become affordable?

Forty years ago, AI was largely shelved because of its high price tag. By finding the real business benefits, you can do better than the developers of yesterday.

By David Linthicum

Nov 10, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Using Swift with WinUI on Windows

A new open-source tool from The Browser Company sets us on the road to bringing Swift apps from iOS and macOS to Windows.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 9, 2023 7 mins

Microsoft .NET Small and Medium Business Swift

The impact of public cloud price hikes

The higher the cloud bills, the more questions get asked. Here’s how to evaluate if you should divorce your cloud provider.

By David Linthicum

Nov 7, 2023 4 mins

Careers Private Cloud Technology Industry

Open source is still the future of enterprise IT

Open source projects continue to point the way for enterprise infrastructure, with eBPF, Cilium, Tetragon, and OpenTelemetry playing major roles.

By Matt Asay

Nov 6, 2023 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Open Source

The case for holding off on generative AI

There’s a lot of talk but not many actual implementations of generative AI in the cloud. Better to have all the pieces in place before launching expensive projects.

By David Linthicum

Nov 3, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Generative AI

Uno Platform updates to 5.0

A new release of Uno in advance of .NET 8 adds support for MVUX and C#-based markup.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 2, 2023 6 mins

C# Development Tools Microsoft .NET

3 musts for your 2024 cloud to-do list

It’s time to look at top priorities for cloud deployments. It's a great opportunity to tackle access controls, cost optimization, and complexity.

By David Linthicum

Oct 31, 2023 4 mins

Careers Cloud Security Multicloud

The clouds can’t afford to forget developers

In the rush to AI, vendors should remember that developers have a lot of clout with IT spending. Helping developers will translate to growth at the bottom line.

By Matt Asay

Oct 30, 2023 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

Do you still need a degree to be a cloud pro?

Cloud computing and IT are starting to prefer experience to an expensive college education. What’s the best hiring strategy in this new normal?

By David Linthicum

Oct 27, 2023 7 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Technology Industry

When your cloud project is over budget

What do you do now? How do you keep your job? There are a few things that could save the project and your career.

By David Linthicum

Oct 24, 2023 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing IT Skills and Training

What AI won’t replace in your programming

Generative AI is great at handling tedium and finding errors, but the expertise and intuition of programmers will always be essential.

By Matt Asay

Oct 23, 2023 4 mins

Development Tools Generative AI IT Skills and Training

What happened to edge computing?

Edge computing offers less latency and bandwidth savings, but the lack of standards and problems with interoperability and security still need to improve.

By David Linthicum

Oct 20, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Technology Industry

BI meets data science in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft’s cloud-hosted data lake and lakehouse platform gains new data science tools and opens up Power BI datasets to Python, R, and SparkSQL.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 19, 2023 6 mins

Data Science Microsoft Azure Python

Best practices for operating cloud-based generative AI systems

From system design to daily performance tuning, here’s a checklist of ways to make your systems run effectively.

By David Linthicum

Oct 17, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Making sure open source doesn’t fail AI

The lessons learned from cloud are spurring a proactive examination of what it means to be 'open source' in the rapidly evolving world of AI.

By Matt Asay

Oct 16, 2023 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Technology Industry

Generative AI and migrations to the public cloud

GenAI can analyze application dependencies, network configurations, and security risks, but it will mostly help lazy companies that aren't doing this anyway.

By David Linthicum

Oct 13, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Using Visual Studio Code for C# development

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 11, 2023 8 mins

C# Development Tools Software Development

When open source cloud development doesn’t play nice

In addition to integration and intellectual property challenges, companies may not have the technical expertise to customize or secure open source software.

By David Linthicum

Oct 10, 2023 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Open Source

Learning from Let’s Encrypt’s 10 years of success

Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem.

By Matt Asay

Oct 9, 2023 5 mins

Open Source Rust Technology Industry

Cloud infrastructure spending is growing

The cloud is integral to most business operations and spending remains unaffected by lower corporate revenue. Still, let's make the most of your cloud dollars.

By David Linthicum

Oct 6, 2023 4 mins

Careers Cloud Management Technology Industry

Using Azure Migrate to move on-premises systems to Azure

Microsoft’s free cloud migration tools simplify the process of bringing applications and services out of your data center and into the cloud.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 5, 2023 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure

Why we need both cloud architects and cloud engineers

AI-based design and development is exciting but it doesn't replace sound, solid architecture and engineering in building and deploying cloud-based solutions.

By David Linthicum

Oct 3, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Linux distros need to take more responsibility for security

Between the rapid release of open source software, and modern OSes preloaded with packages, enterprises are vulnerable to attacks they aren’t even aware of.

By Matt Asay

Oct 2, 2023 6 mins

Open Source Security Software Development

A crisis of spending and cloud-based generative AI

Enterprises want generative AI, but CIOs need a way to pay for it. Diverting spending from traditional cloud computing may not be the best strategy.

By David Linthicum

Sep 29, 2023 4 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Generative AI

Building for Linux and Android on Windows

Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 28, 2023 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

When your cloud finops system rats you out to your boss

The time is coming when poor IT design and decisions will be outed by finops automation and artificial intelligence. Are you ready to defend yourself?

By David Linthicum

Sep 26, 2023 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Computer vision’s next breakthrough

Computer vision can do more than reduce costs and improve quality. Here's how hardware, software, and AI innovations are saving lives and improving safety on and off the factory floor.

By Isaac Sacolick

Sep 25, 2023 7 mins

Machine Learning Software Development Technology Industry

Employers want people with Python for AI

If you want to squeeze the most value from your data, teach your employees Python and Excel instead of specialized programming languages.

By Matt Asay

Sep 25, 2023 4 mins

Data Science Generative AI Python

Even with repatriation cost savings, the value of cloud computing is still strong

2023 might be the year of repatriation, but more challenging architectural decisions need to be made besides what saves a few cloud dollars.

By David Linthicum

Sep 22, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Send a message with Azure Notification Hubs

Azure Notification Hubs can deliver notifications to any device from any platform anywhere, without your having to manage all aspects of the messaging stack.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 21, 2023 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development