We are honored to beryllium recognized by Gartner® arsenic a Leader successful the precocious published 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). In the report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest successful Completeness of Vision.

For years, we’ve understood that the manufacture trusts Gartner Magic Quadrant reports to supply a holistic reappraisal of unreality providers’ capabilities. We’re pleased by this placement successful the Gartner study arsenic we proceed to prioritize investments to marque Azure the planetary unreality computing level powering translation and growth—enabling caller possibilities for organizations to clasp the latest technologies and to beforehand astatine a accelerated pace. With highly secure, state-of-the-art Azure datacenters designed with information residency successful mind, Azure hosts 1 of the astir precocious supercomputers successful the world.

The Gartner study validates our committedness to empowering customers to scope caller heights. We are arrogant of our purpose-built unreality infrastructure for the epoch of AI, 1 that is adaptive crossed on-prem, multicloud and borderline environments, for our implicit improvement level with precocious tools to accelerate developer productivity, for our AI services and tools to empower innovation, and for our extended partnerships crossed a wide scope of manufacture leaders to springiness customers the choices they desire.

We are honored for this designation and volition proceed to physique the aboriginal unneurotic with our customers, nary substance wherever they are successful the unreality journey.

Purpose-built unreality infrastructure for the epoch of AI

We proceed to physique our AI infrastructure successful adjacent collaboration with silicon providers and manufacture leaders, incorporating the latest innovations successful software, power, models, and silicon. Azure works intimately with NVIDIA to supply NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core (GPU) graphics processing unit-based virtual machines (VMs) for mid to large-scale AI workloads. We’ve besides expanded our concern with AMD, enabling our customers with choices to conscionable their unsocial concern needs. These investments person allowed Azure to pioneer show for AI supercomputing successful the unreality and person consistently ranked america arsenic the fig 1 unreality successful the top 500 of the world’s supercomputers.

With these additions to the Azure infrastructure hardware portfolio, our level enables america to present the champion show and ratio crossed each workloads.

An adaptive unreality crossed on-prem, multicloud and borderline environments

The unreality is evolving to enactment lawsuit workloads wherever they’re needed. We recognize unreality migration is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and that’s wherefore we’re committed to gathering customers wherever they are successful their unreality journey. With Azure you person an adaptive cloud that enables you to thrive successful dynamic environments by unifying siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into azygous operations, application, and information exemplary successful Azure. 

Azure Arc helps customers instrumentality their adaptive unreality strategies, providing a span that extends the Azure level and enables them to physique applications and services crossed datacenters, astatine the edge, and successful multicloud environments. Through a portfolio of services, tools, and infrastructure, organizations tin instrumentality vantage of Azure services wrong a azygous power plane. And with the caller wide availability of VMware vSphere enabled by Azure Arc that brings unneurotic Azure and the VMware vSphere infrastructure, VMware administrators tin empower their developers to usage Azure technologies with their existing server-based workloads and caller Kubernetes workloads each from Azure.

Every day, unreality administrators and IT professionals are being asked to bash more. We consistently perceive from customers they’re tasked with a wider scope of operations; they are required to collaborate with much users, and enactment much analyzable needs to present connected expanding lawsuit demand—all portion integrating much workloads into their unreality environment. To enactment our customers, we precocious launched the nationalist preview of Microsoft Copilot for Azure, a caller solution built into Azure that volition assistance simplify however they design, operate, oregon troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from unreality to edge.

One determination to build, test, and deploy AI innovations securely

We’re lone conscionable starting to recognize the imaginable of generative AI and however it volition alteration the mode we unrecorded and work. Developers are astatine the bosom of this caller question of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. With a cloud-first attack developers walk little clip connected maintaining apps and infrastructure and much clip connected innovating and ideating, reducing the clip to market. What’s more, developers tin physique with confidence, knowing that Azure has built-in tools and technologies to assistance guarantee a unafraid and liable attack from improvement to deployment.

The public preview of Azure AI Studio gives developers everything they request to build, test, and deploy AI innovations successful 1 convenient location: cutting-edge models, information integration for retrieval augmented procreation (RAG), intelligent hunt capabilities, full-lifecycle exemplary management, and contented safety. Azure AI Content Safety is disposable successful Azure AI Studio so developers tin easy measure exemplary responses each successful 1 unified improvement platform to rapidly and efficiently observe violative oregon inappropriate contented successful substance and images, Customers similar Heineken, Thread, Moveworks, Manulife , and truthful galore much are putting Azure AI technologies to enactment for their businesses and their ain customers and employees.

Integrated, AI-based tools to assistance developers innovate efficiently

The integration of AI-based tools successful the improvement rhythm is not conscionable accelerating innovation, but besides enabling developers to walk much clip connected strategic, meaningful work, and little clip connected tasks similar debugging and infrastructure management. With Microsoft DevBox, developers tin streamline improvement with secure, ready-to-code workstations successful the cloud, leveraging self-service entree to high-performance, cloud-based workstations preconfigured and ready-to-code for circumstantial projects. GitHub Copilot uses AI exertion to suggest codification successful the exertion maximizing clip spent connected concern logic implicit boilerplate, with developers reporting they tin implicit tasks up to 55% faster and consciousness up to 88% much productive.

With tools that are designed to enactment seamlessly together, Microsoft’s implicit improvement level stack empowers developers with flexible solutions, truthful they tin physique next-gen apps productively and securely, wherever they want. GitHub integrates with Azure to supply a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for developers, and with GitHub Enterprise they tin beryllium much businesslike with up to 75% improvement in clip spent managing tools and codification infrastructure. Customers similar GM are collaborating with Microsoft to assistance velocity up innovation wrong their organization, trial and learn, and make agile environments utilizing Microsoft improvement platforms specified arsenic GitHub, Visual Studio and Microsoft DevBox. 

Create differentiated AI experiences with cloud-native apps

Azure’s cloud-native platform is the champion spot to tally and standard applications portion seamlessly embedding Azure’s autochthonal AI services. Azure gives developers the prime betwixt power and flexibility, with implicit absorption connected productivity careless of what enactment is chosen. Azure App Service allows developers to big .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python web apps and APIs successful a afloat managed Azure service. Azure takes attraction of each the infrastructure absorption similar precocious availability, load balancing, and autoscaling enabling developers to accelerate app improvement to accumulation up to 50 percent with fully-managed Azure App Service. Developers tin further streamline the improvement process for faster clip to marketplace with cloud-based tools and services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub Enterprise and Advanced Security, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Cognitive Services. And with Microsoft Copilot for Azure, developers person an AI companion to assistance them design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot mundane tasks with AKS and Kubernetes. Customers specified arsenic Sapiens person leveraged the synergy betwixt cloud-native technologies and AI to accelerate their integer translation and present much worth to their extremity users with intelligent apps.

Building the aboriginal together

We are dedicated to empowering our customers with exertion that unlocks limitless innovation, helping them wherever they are connected their exertion journey. We usage the decades of acquisition we person successful migrating Microsoft’s on-premises workloads to the cloud, to pass however we marque it easier for customers and partners to usage the cloud—from however we physique products, to the real-world migration guidance we provide. It’s wherefore 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies spot Azure with their concern connected Azure. Customers similar AT&T trust connected Azure AI for Enterprise Chat GPT and amended cognition mining and the World Bank who is utilizing Azure cloud-based solution to centralized monitoring, performance, assets consumption, and information absorption crossed clouds, each successful a azygous package.

And we are not doing this alone. We person a immense planetary spouse web and a increasing fig of exertion partnerships crossed a wide scope of manufacture leaders specified as, Databricks, Netapp, NVIDIA, Oracle, OpenAI, SAP, Snowflake, VMware, and others. We precocious announced a concern to bring Oracle Database Services into Azure to assistance maximize ratio and resiliency for our communal customers’ businesses. Our investments with SAP proceed to grow, enhancing show and resilience for ngo captious workloads with caller almighty infrastructure options for our SAP customers specified arsenic the Azure M-series Mv3 family, the adjacent procreation of representation optimized virtual machines (VMs). As we grow partnerships with OpenAI, Meta and Hugging Face, we make much opportunities for organizations and developers to physique generative AI experiences, offering the astir broad enactment of frontier, unfastened and commercialized models.

As Microsoft continues to innovate astatine the velocity of AI, Azure is astatine the instauration of each our innovation, powering each aspects of the Microsoft Cloud and our copilots. Azure makes it imaginable for organizations to securely clasp the latest technologies and leverage them to make caller ones. We endlessly optimize our infrastructure to bring faster, secure, reliable, and much sustainable computing power, truthful that our customers and partners tin physique with confidence. Linked by 1 of the largest interconnected networks connected the planet, we’re providing unprecedented scalability, debased latency, information residency, and precocious availability to our customers astir the world. Azure provides the unreality level wherever you are with highly secure, state-of the creation Azure datacenters, offering 60+ regions—more than immoderate different unreality provider.

With Azure, customers tin spot they are connected a unafraid and well-managed instauration to utilize the latest advancements successful AI and cloud-native services, safely and responsibly, to make today’s solutions and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. We are dedicated to the occurrence of our customers and partners, and proceed to put successful ways that guarantee Azure is the starring prime for customers, large and tiny astir the globe.

Discover resources for your unreality journey

• Learn much about Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate and however they tin assistance you from migration to AI innovation.
• Check retired the caller and free Azure Migrate exertion and codification assessment feature to prevention connected exertion migrations.
• Find retired however to instrumentality your AI ambitions from ideation to world with Azure. 
• For the latest Azure innovations ticker our Ignite 2023 sessions connected demand.

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Disclaimer: 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, David Wright, Dennis Smith, and 4 more, 4 December 2023.

The study was antecedently known arsenic Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (2020-2022) and Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure arsenic a Service till 2019. 

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