exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
Microsoft ♥ Linux – we say that a lot, and we mean it! Today we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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Now available: ONNX Runtime 0.5 with support for edge hardware acceleration
ONNX Runtime 0.5, the latest update to the open source high performance inference engine for ONNX models, is now available. This release improves the customer experience and supports inferencing optimizations across hardware platforms. Since the last release in May, Microsoft teams have deployed an additional 45+ models that leverage ONNX Runtime for inferencing.
Microsoft joins partners and the Linux Foundation to create Confidential Computing Consortium
Microsoft has invested in confidential computing for many years, so I’m excited to announce that Microsoft will join industry partners to create the Confidential Computing Consortium, a new organization that will be hosted at The Linux Foundation. The Confidential Computing Consortium will be dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing.
AzureR now available: Create, manage, and monitor Azure services with R
AzureR, a family of packages that provides tools to manage Azure resources from the open source R language, is now available. If you code in Python, C#, Java or JavaScript, you already have a rich selection of SDKs to choose from to interact with Azure.
Run, operate, and scale modern applications with Redis Enterprise on Microsoft Azure
Today, we rely on our everyday services to be delivered digitally and expect the experience to be instant. In order for customer-facing applications to respond to users in 100ms, you need a high-performance database capable of handling a variety of application scenarios at the lowest complexity and cost, with uncompromising performance.
Microsoft joins the Hyperledger community
Today we are announcing that we’ve joined Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation community that focuses on open source implementations of the emerging specifications and standards for blockchain and distributed ledgers. Over the past few years, blockchain has shown significant promise across many industries to manage complex workflows and logistics.
Learning on Twitch
Watch someone live code online…why would I do that? Hopefully I can answer this question for you in today’s post. This is the second post in my blog series that describes the value developers can get from social media, including what I’ve learned about specific social media platforms.
ONNX Runtime: a one-stop shop for machine learning inferencing
Organizations that want to leverage AI at scale must overcome a number of challenges around model training and model inferencing. Today, there are a plethora of tools and frameworks that accelerate model training but inferencing remains a tough nut due to the variety of environments that models need to run in.
Hello Service Mesh Interface (SMI): A specification for service mesh interoperability
Today we are excited to launch Service Mesh Interface (SMI) which defines a set of common, portable APIs that provide developers with interoperability across different service mesh technologies including Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect. SMI is an open project started in partnership with Microsoft, Linkerd, HashiCorp, Solo.
Helm 3: simpler to use, more secure to operate
Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes, and the eagerly anticipated Helm 3 alpha is now available for testing. Try it out, give feedback, and help the Helm community get it ready for you to depend upon.
Extending Kubernetes in the open
Greetings and welcome to KubeCon EU in Barcelona! As always, it is wonderful to see the community come together to celebrate how Kubernetes has made cloud-native ubiquitous and changed the way that we build and manage our software.
Updates on Red Hat and Microsoft Azure joint innovation
Today at the Red Hat Summit, Microsoft announced a wide array of new services, including availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 images, SQL Server 2017 on RHEL 8, and the general availability of Ansible 2.8 and Certified Ansible Modules on Azure alongside the Azure Red Hat OpenShift GA.