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Microsoft Build 2024: Cloud infra updates include Cobalt 100-based VMs, access to Copilot in Azure

Network World

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure.

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Put your head in the cloud: Microsoft unveils immersive digital tour for deep dive on data centers

GeekWire

(Microsoft Image). As you point and click your way around various aspects of your digital life today, whether you’re hosting a virtual work meeting or playing a video game, save some time for a new immersive experience from Microsoft which helps explain how it all works, thanks to “the cloud.”

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Free Tools to Help Manage your Virtualized Datacenter  

CTOvision

Virtual server deployments can get complex quickly. When you are studying for your certification exams, educators typically have virtual labs setup for you that allow you to quickly login to and plug away at your task. Once you begin using virtual servers in a live production environment, it can be easy to get unorganized.

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Microsoft partners with Citrix for the future of virtual desktops

The Verge

Microsoft and Citrix have been working together closely for decades, but that partnership is going a step further today. Microsoft is partnering with Citrix to use the company’s Citrix Workspace portal as its “preferred digital workspace solution,” and Citrix is using Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform.

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Microsoft reaches a key milestone in its quest to build a quantum supercomputer

GeekWire

This Microsoft illustration depicts a future quantum supercomputer operating in an Azure data center. Nadella as far back in 2017 was identifying quantum computing, virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence as the three technologies he believed at the time were most likely to shape the future.

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How to use Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager to manage Hyper-V virtual machines

Tech Republic Data Center

Hyper-V-based virtual machines can be created on just about any modern machine, however, centralizing management of your organization's VMs is possible with Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager.

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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

On the IaaS offerings front, the price hikes will be applied to bare metal servers, virtual server instances, file and block storage, and networking infrastructure for both classic and virtual private cloud ( VPC ) offerings, the company said.

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