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In 2023 Microsoft announced major updates to its Azure data platform. While their OpenAI service has been dominating the headlines, questions about Microsoft’s new, comprehensive analytics solution Fabric have been just as central in our customer discussions.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses face constant pressure to innovate and stay competitive. Legacy applications, while valuable, often hinder this progress due to their outdated infrastructure and high maintenance costs. However, there's a solution that allows businesses of all sizes to revitalize their legacy applications while reducing IT\SDLC expenses with – Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Microsoft Power BI (business intelligence) is a powerful analytics tool that helps companies of all sizes analyze data and share insights. With this technology, enterprises can monitor their business more closely and get instant answers with rich dashboards available for every device. 

DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a development & operations-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people, tools and culture while seeking to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. 

DevOps is a cultural shift and a healthy collaboration between development and operations. There is no single DevOps tool, rather a set consisting of multiple tools that range from version control of source code to application life cycle management. With DevOps, siloed roles like development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security coordinate and collaborate seamlessly.

SNP Technologies brings the power and ease of OpenSource Platform as a Service (PaaS) to your data workloads

Pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy offers your business the combination of the customizability and security of a private cloud with the scalability and flexibility of a pu

Businesses know that shifting to the cloud can reduce costs, boost performance, and enable them to scale based on rising (or falling) traffic. However, reports show that in 2019, just 22% of enterprise primary workload deployments were on the public cloud. The top issue: complex legacy apps that are resistant to modernization. 

In a recent press release, Microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership with artificial intelligence research company OpenAIto bolster its supercomputing cloud AI technology. In addition to working together to develop new cloud technologies, Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI.

On July 9, 2019, Microsoft will end support and security updates for SQL Server 2008 + 2008 R2. By that date, businesses using those systems will need to have migrated their operations to new software. That presents issues not only of cost and security but availability. It’s not like you can migrate during downtime anymore.