In 2010, we started to build a cloud platform that the organization would strengthen around the world. In February, we celebrated 15 years of bringing Azure innovation into the world and Deday celebrate that Microsoft will be re -recognized as a leader in Forrester’s recently published report by The Forrester Wave ™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2024.
In 2010, we started to build a cloud platform that the organization would strengthen around the world. In February, we celebrated 15 years when we brought Azure innovations to the world, and today we celebrate that Microsoft is re -acknowledging as a leader in Forrester’s recently published report by The Forrester Wave ™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2024. They developed Azure on a platform that is now-to-them is trustworthy businesses to control innovations, scalance with confidence and meet the challenges of the world-controlled AI.
Recognized
Forrester evaluation evaluates platforms for the development and infrastructure of public cloud based on the strength of their current offers and strategy. The Q4 2024 report underlines the strategic investments we have made to ensure that Azure is not only a cloud provider, but also a complex platform that allows the real impact of a business impact. And today it means helping organizations surround the migration of the balance of the world, modernization and rapid progress AI – all at the same time.
Reported reported key differentiators, including Genai Microsoft and Azure AI Capababilits, such as Azure Openai Service, Azure AI Studio, Github Copilot Enterprise and Microsoft Fabric For long -term Microsoft environment.
Forrester’s confirmation strengthens our obligation to continue the innovation and success of customers in all cloud layers -Alets more closely why we believe that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a leader.
AI in the kernel: Dusing innovation from cloud to edge
Cloud Computing has evolved from a solution for scaling of infrastructure to the basic intelligence and innovation activator. Similarly, AI has become a necessary business tool for modernization, innovation and cometivity. Each application is rediscovered with AI and there are brand new applications that have never been possible before. Simple put – AI redefines how we work and work.
We understand deep that the challenges that customers face are navigating the balance between managing today’s requirements and innovation for the future, and therefore we have made AI the main part of our cloud strategy. By inserting AI across developers, platforms, data and infrastructure, we build a smooth basis for the next generation of intelligent applications on a scale. The key part of this consent is to provide customers with selection and flexibility. For example, we offer one of the most sensible collections of Open-Source and Foundation, with more than 1,800 models available on Azure A and AZ foundry. In the last two months, we have expanded our model catalog with more than 30 new models from leading partners and contributed to the advancing family of Phi models.
Throughout the area of AI our work spans domains
AI-POWER Application Development
We continue to invest in AI infrastructure, business services AI and developer instruments that lead to the impact of real business, such as Azure AI Foundry and Github Copilot Enterprise, to transform the way the organizations create and deploy AI-POWEM solutions.
Customers see the value of applications, intelligent automation and advanced analyzes, and Azure provides a scalable infrastructure needed for trouble -free AI integration across the workload of business processes to accelerate software development. For example, through our strategic partnership, Openai is delivering their latest ASYY models to start almost in real time ASAAI, the protection and AI capabilities turn on by default.
Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry, which was launched on Ignite in 2024, is a uniform platform that enabled developers, IT administrative, data scientists and others involved to design, customize and manage and manage AI agents on a scale. It integrates into existing desks such as Github, Visual Studio and Copilot Studio, providing a rich set of capacity and AI tools in the well -known. With a simple Discovery and Management portal, united SDK (software development kit) for Agent Toolchain and Robust API (application programming interface), Azure AI Foundry makes AI developing. It also offers secure data integration, model adaptation and business management to speed up the way to production, and today more than 60,000 customers use these features to transform AI.
Infrastructure of AI corporate class
Azure serves as an infrastructure that strengthens AI – not only for today’s solution, but also the platform for tomorrow’s transformative AI. Our strategy is a fully start of investment-Professional tools for platforms AI, data and infrastructure. This comprehensive approach sets the basis for the next generation of intelligent applications on a scale. For example, we are expanded to include GPU capacity to support large -scale learning models and help ensure the corporate level for AI workload. In addition, we build extensive scope and expansion infrastructure to support training and infection AI, use new architecture such as Grace Blackwell and high -performance links such as NVLink and Infiniband. With these new state -of -the -art technologies, customers gain high permeability, reduced Azure Latur and a highly available specialized infrastructure that helps ensure smoothly their workload AI.
Adaptive cloud approach allows flexibility across the environment
As Forrester emphasizes their report, hybrid and multiple abilities become the norm. Organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment and require trouble -free integration across public cloud, hybrid and marginal infrastructure to optimize performance, increase security and increase innovations. Azure adaptive cloud strategy remains a key differentiator, allowing businesses to unify its cloud operations while using AI, applications, data and infrastructure in a cohesive and scalable way:
- Trouble -free hybrid and multiple operations: Azure ARC spends the capabilities of Azure Security, management of public and artificial intelligence within the place, multi -group and Edge, which provides companies composed platform for resources that are not in their rent.
- Data and analysts controlled and: Microsoft Fabrication Integrats Data, Analytics, and A-Created knowledge into the only solution that organizations seize to make intelligent real-time decisions throughout their data assets.
- Scalabibility over an intelligent edge: The AI-Optimized Infrastructure Infrastructure helps to ensure that the organization can deploy and trigger an AI inspiring workload on the edge with the same reliability, security and performance as in the cloud.
With this approach, we help to strengthen and scalance agility through a cohesive platform that eliminates silos, speeds up innovation, and allows businesses to scal AI and smoothly – regardless of where they operate.
Looking forward with Azure AI
This recognition from Forrester confirms our vision and continuing investments in AI, application development and corporate infrastructure. Over the past 15 years, we have been building and operating a cloud platform that has authorized businesses to innovate with confidence, and we are grateful that Azure has become a trusted platform for all cloud workload, developing continuous and deep cooperation and deep ecosystem Microsoft Partner.
When we are moving forward, we are still determined to help customers with AI applications with Azure AI Foundry and Azure Openai Service, developing Github Copilot and Azure Developer Services and powering their data and analytical strategies using tools such as Microsoft.
The constantly expanding AI infrastructure, including the increased GPU capacity, will continue to support advanced workloads and can continue to adapt their cloud path through our hybrid and multi -bite solutions such as Azure Arc, which ensures trouble -free operations.
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