{"id":134044,"date":"2023-07-18T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=448381"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:33:58","slug":"were-thrilled-to-expand-our-ai-partnership-with-meta-as-we-bring-their-llama-family-of-large-language-models-to-azure-and-deliver-on-our-vision-to-be-the-preferred-cloud-for-both-frontier-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/were-thrilled-to-expand-our-ai-partnership-with-meta-as-we-bring-their-llama-family-of-large-language-models-to-azure-and-deliver-on-our-vision-to-be-the-preferred-cloud-for-both-frontier-a\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re thrilled to expand our AI partnership with Meta, as we bring their Llama family of large language models to Azure, and deliver on our vision to be the preferred cloud for both frontier and open models."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why Are We Moving to Plural Clouds? From \u201cAn Insider\u2019s Guide to Cloud Computing\u201d So, why the sudden move to multicloud? While it might seem as though multicloud suddenly showed up as a new cloud computing concept overnight, it\u2019s been steadily growing and evolving for years. Like most things that become famous, it didn\u2019t just happen overnight. People just finally noticed. I have a saying about multicloud: Whether it\u2019s found on purpose or by accident, multicloud is an inevitable reality for most enterprises. In its most simplistic form, multicloud leverages more than a single cloud provider, meaning two or more public cloud providers. While private clouds can be part of a multicloud, most multiclouds leverage multiple public cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Or even those three and Oracle and Alibaba. Don\u2019t fall into the semantic arguments that are taking place around the definition of multicloud; it\u2019s just any cloud deployment that leverages more than one public cloud provider. In the beginning of multicloud, many enterprises leveraged a single cloud provider and slid into multi- cloud almost by accident. There were always exceptions being made as developers and end users found some vital public cloud service that was not part of the preferred cloud provider\u2019s services for the enterprise. Ta-da. The enterprise became a multicloud user. In many of my clients\u2019 enterprises, IT denied that the other cloud(s) existed. A network scan will reveal other clouds in use on the enterprise network. Ta-da again. The enterprise has a multicloud. Multicloud followed the same pattern of adoption we saw in the \u201cIT Showdown\u201d movement when employees used their company credit cards to adopt SaaS-based systems, typically to circumvent corporate IT because they were sick of hearing \u201cNo.\u201d This is how many companies first entered the cloud. IT got dragged in kicking and screaming when their outlaw users adopted cloud for them and then pushed the resulting problems back to IT when administration and security of those SaaS clouds got too hard and too costly. Adoption of multicloud followed much the same patterns, but now IT is usually aware that it\u2019s happening, either on purpose or not. \u201cNot on purpose\u201d means that a series of exceptions were made to leverage cloud services from other IaaS cloud providers other than the IT-set standard. So, Cloud A could be an enterprise\u2019s primary provider, typically with many past press releases to promote the \u201cpartnership.\u201d The new normal is that the number of other IaaS public cloud providers in use is in double digits. Moreover, clouds are still being added to the mix because specialty cloud services are needed that the existing cloud service provider can\u2019t supply for one reason or another. Obviously, \u201con purpose\u201d is the way you should adopt any technology, multicloud included. It shouldn\u2019t just happen, but instead unfold around a well-th\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Are We Moving to Plural Clouds? From \u201cAn Insider\u2019s Guide to Cloud Computing\u201d So, why the sudden move to multicloud? While it might seem as though multicloud suddenly showed up as a new cloud computing concept overnight, it\u2019s been steadily growing and evolving for years. Like most things that become famous, it didn\u2019t just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-134044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}