Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News
Microsoft Ignite 2024 is ongoing and we already saw a big wave of announcements which sometimes are difficult to keep up with. For that, the Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News is a helpful resource having all the announcements with their respective description in one place. Bookmark Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News and crawl through all what's coming now and in the next couple of weeks/months.
EMEA Partner Community Calls (German, French, English)
Join us for our June series of the EMEA Azure Partner Community Calls in English, French and German. Topics: ➡ Leadership top of mind / Closing the year ➡ Partner Journey: programs, designations, specializations & resources ➡ Partner-Led AMM / Azure Innovate learnings & best practices ➡ Resources / What's next? :laptop_computer: Register to our upcoming Azure session (FR, EN & DE): EMEA Azure Partner Community Calls (microsoft.com) See you there!
Swiss DCs Partner Update Call September 2024
Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording and AI recap is here: Regular Partner Q&A Call on CH DC-20240920_140148-Meeting Recording.mp4 (sharepoint.com) Main info covered: New Public Story 5 years Swiss DCs Azure More powerful NVIDIA GPUs NVv5 now generally available in Switzerland North in two zones, enabling e.g. resource-intensive applications such as CAD for Virtual Desktop Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore available very soon in Switzerland North Modern Work GPU cloud PCs in Windows 365 available in Switzerland Final Call Similar to established areas with mature DCs such as DE / FR / UK, there is no local DC Lead any longer in Switzerland Please approach your Microsoft partner team or Martin Abrle for Swiss DCs requests I will delete the call series for the future as I transitioned to the role of AI National Skills Director Thank you VERY MUCH for the past collaboration and everything you've done for Swiss DCs!Swiss DCs Partner Update Call June 2024
Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording and AI recap is here: Regular Partner Q&A Call on CH DC-20240621_140141-Meeting Recording.mp4 (sharepoint.com) Main info covered: New Public Customer Story Luzerner Kantonsspital with partner Polypoint Azure Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o available as Provisioned Throughput in Switzerland North - PAYG not yet available, will be listed here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/models Azure VMware Solution now generally available in Switzerland North More powerful NVIDIA GPUs NVv5 now generally available in Switzerland North, enabling e.g. resource-intensive applications such as CAD for Virtual Desktop Azure Storage Actions (preview), a fully managed platform that helps customers automate data management operations for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Please approach me if your customers have a need for further workloads in Swiss DCs Defender Announcement Post | LinkedIn Covered solutions: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint MDE, Microsoft Defender for Identity MDI and Microsoft Defender XDR as underlying platform Be aware of a few specific points per the pdf or call recording Next Call Current call series will be extended, next call will be on Friday Sept 20 2024 14.00 Please approach me if you'd like to join as wellSwiss DCs Partner Update Call March 2024
Please find attached the pdf slides from this quarter's partner Swiss DCs update call. The recording is too large to share here, please approach me directly in the next four weeks if you would like to access it. Main info covered: New Public Customer Stories Azure OpenAI at Rhaetian Railway with startup ParetoLabs SAP on Azure at Canton Aargau M365 at Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel Azure OpenAI at startup Apiax M365 at Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum Azure OpenAI at Pictet with startup Unique Azure Microsoft Dev Box launched in Switzerland North, same price as in European DCs Archive Tier within Azure Backup in Switzerland North Azure NetApp Files Backup in both Switzerland North and West Bsv2/Basv2 now GA in Switzerland North – Bsv2 also in Switzerland West NDA update on Azure VMware Solution NDA update on more powerful GPUs NVv5 for Virtual Desktop, enabling resource-intensive applications such as CAD Please approach me if your customers have a need for further workloads in Swiss DCs M365 M365 Backup available as public preview, including Swiss DCs – invoicing follows the pay-as you-go model as part of Microsoft Syntex per-user licensing M365 Copilot Local Data Residency, as long as M365 tenant is located in Swiss DCs Was added to Product Terms on March 1 2024, publicly also documented Stored data is “content of interactions”: the user's prompt and Copilot's response, including citations to any information used to ground Copilot's response Data isn't used to train foundation LLMs LLM located outside Switzerland, processing happens there as publicly documented Next Call Cadence switched to quarterly calls Next call will be on June 21 2024 14.00 Participants who joined at least one call in the last 12 months were invited, please approach me if you'd like to join as wellAccelerating AI Innovation in Switzerland: availability of Azure OpenAI Service in Swiss Data Center
Microsoft has announced the availability of the Azure OpenAI Service in the cloud region Switzerland North, marking a significant milestone in accelerating AI innovation and adoption in Switzerland. Swiss organizations can leverage the power of Azure’s cutting-edge AI services with local data residency, enabling them to meet regulatory and performance requirements while rapidly delivering AI-powered solutions. Read the articleSwiss DCs Partner Update Call June 2023 & Info Moving Forward
Please find attached the pdf slides and recording from Friday's partner Swiss DCs update call. Main info covered: New Public Customer Stories PwC Switzerland using Azure, M365 and security solutions Vaudoise extending the partnership with Azure, M365 and D365 in Swiss DCs Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes now GA in Switzerland North Azure Virtual Network Manager in Switzerland North and West Ultra Disks now available in 2 AZs in Switzerland North – under NDA: 3rd AZ also planned Azure Web PubSub in Switzerland West (already available in North before) Azure SignalR in Switzerland West (already available in North before) Update Management Center now deployed for Arc-enabled servers in Switzerland North Dynatrace SaaS exclusively on Azure in Switzerland with local data residency Azure VMware Solution AVS – NDA updates Please approach me if your customers have a need for further workloads in Swiss DCs Dynamics 365 Push Notifications in D365 Marketing enabled as a private preview with June release, send us an organization ID to unlock the push notification feature Next Calls After four years monthly calls, switching cadence to one call per quarter Next call will be end of September Will send new invite to participants who joined at least one call in the last 12 months
