Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025

By Dustin Ward

As the tech world eagerly anticipates Red Hat Summit 2025, Microsoft is proud to announce its role as a platinum sponsor at the event. Red Hat Summit is a premier enterprise open source event for IT professionals to learn, collaborate, and innovate on technologies from the datacenter and public cloud to edge and beyond. This…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025 

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.  Manage your cloud…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025

By Dustin Ward

In this article Optimizing AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) costs  AWS (Azure Web Services) connector deprecation Exchange of Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations Help shape the future of cost reporting Documentation updates What’s next for Cost Management? Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We’re always looking…

Announcing Global Acceleration Program for RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure 

By Dustin Ward

SAP and Microsoft are excited to announce a joint program, the RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure Global Acceleration Program, aimed at accelerating and complementing the adoption of RISE with SAP. This program provides prescriptive guidance, proven recommendations and security principles to enable organizations’ transition seamlessly to the cloud while unlocking the full potential of…

Microsoft Cost Management—2024 year in review 

By Dustin Ward

Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as…