Die Grafikkarte soll nicht unter die US-Exportbeschränkungen fallen und deshalb in China verkauft werden dürfen. Trotz Warnung der Handelsministerin. (Grafikkarten, Nvidia)
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Das Motoröl Castrol Edge 5W-30 LL ist Amazons meistgekauftes Öl fürs Auto und kurze Zeit nirgendwo günstiger zu bekommen. (Auto, Mobilität)
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Frankreich macht mit einem neuen Leasingprogramm einen Schritt in Richtung Elektroautos für untere Einkommensgruppen. (Elektroauto, Auto)
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Hersteller von KI-Lösungen fürs Militär sind meist sehr sparsam mit Details – trotz vieler Warnungen wird künstliche Intelligenz aber für militärische Anwendungen entwickelt und bereits genutzt. Ein Einblick. Von Andreas Meier (Militär, KI)
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Die Störungen machen sich wohl vor allem in größeren WLAN-Netzen bemerkbar, in denen mehrere Access Points zum Einsatz kommen. (WLAN, Microsoft)
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Games Workshop und Amazon haben es nun besiegelt: Warhammer-40K-Filme und -Serien erscheinen auf Prime Video. Mit dabei: Henry Cavill. (Warhammer, Amazon)
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Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium will Kommunen stärkere Anreize geben, Stromspeicher zu bauen. Dabei geht es natürlich auch ums Geld. (Energiewende, Politik)
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The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including new release Twenty Twenty-Four, as well as a number of other beautiful and versatile designs.
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Twenty Twenty-Four
Twenty Twenty-Four (aka TT4), WordPress’s brand new default theme, is now available! TT4 is designed to be flexible, versatile, and applicable to any website—whether running a business, writing a blog, or showcasing work.
This beautiful theme comes with a number of style variations and full-page patterns to help speed up the site-building process; it is fully compatible with the Site Editor and takes advantage of all the new design tools introduced in WordPress 6.4.
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Issue
Issue is a magazine-style theme designed to make blog content more inviting. Its simple homepage displays large featured images and post titles only, with sticky menu navigation that allows users to access pages (or lists of posts) independently. The minimalist layout and generous white space on individual posts gives this theme a modern feel, while still being visually striking.
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Carnation (Premium)
Carnation is a minimalist blog theme featuring a classic two-column layout, designed to showcase your content with understated elegance. The homepage emphasizes big featured images to draw in visitors. In the single post/page view, we decided to do something different and not include the featured images at all. Large images often take over the most valuable space near the top of the post/page, which we really wanted to dedicate to content alone in this theme. For any writers tackling Bloganuary this year, Carnation is a great option for your site.
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Ritratto
Ritratto, Italian for “portrait,” offers the perfect design for any kind of showcase, be it for yourself or your favorite historical figure. The prominent header area offers a headshot, large title, brief description, and links. Below that is a grid of posts that’s especially noticeable for its lack of featured image; perhaps counterintuitively, the text-heavy layout helps this theme stand out.
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Sunderland
Sunderland is a simple theme designed for announcing upcoming events in a visually captivating way. Sunderland’s character lies in its immersive landing page, with an easily replaceable full-width background image. Sunderland is the ideal choice for bands, musicians, artists, or event organizers who want a sleek and eye-catching website to inform and engage their audience.
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To install any of the above themes, click the name of the theme you like, which brings you right to the installation page. Then click the “Activate this design” button. You can also click “Open live demo,” which brings up a clickable, scrollable version of the theme for you to preview.
Premium themes are available to use at no extra charge for customers on the Premium plan or above. Partner themes are third-party products that can be purchased for $79/year each.
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This post was co-authored by Patrick McCluskey, Vice President at MongoDB.
As we welcome the era of AI, it’s important to remember that data is the fuel that powers AI. With this understanding, it’s clear why our goal is to make Azure the best destination for data. In Azure, customers benefit from a comprehensive portfolio of database products including relational, non-relational, open source, and caching solutions. We have also established deep partnerships, like the one we have with MongoDB Inc., to enable digital transformation using their databases as managed offerings in Azure.
MongoDB is a leading data platform company that gives developers an intuitive way to model their data. We’ve partnered with MongoDB for years but this year we deepened our partnership significantly, culminating in a multiyear strategic partnership agreement. We’re incredibly proud of the work we’ve done together to make Azure a great place to run MongoDB Atlas. In the past six months alone, MongoDB has become one of our top performing Azure Marketplace partners driven by the adoption of the MongoDB Atlas on Azure pay-as-you-go self-service offering.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower everyone to achieve more, and we know that our customers like using MongoDB to build applications. In year one of our strategic partnership, we collaborated with MongoDB to make it even easier for our joint customers to do more with Microsoft services and MongoDB Atlas on Azure. We’ve enabled developers to use MongoDB Atlas in 40+ Azure regions globally—with our most recent new location being in Doha, Qatar, which we announced last month at our Ignite conference. And we know it’s not just about the data center, it’s also critically important to make it easy for developers to get started with MongoDB Atlas on Azure. GitHub Copilot makes it easy to build MongoDB applications on Azure due to its proficiency in making code suggestions and we’re working together to further improve GitHub Copilot’s performance using MongoDB schema, among other things.
See how MongoDB and GitHub Copilot come together in this video.
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We’ve already seen customers reaping the benefits of our strategic partnership. For example, our joint work with Temenos helped to enable their banking customers to reach record-high scale. And in another case, Mural, a collaborative intelligence company, shared their experience of building with MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft Azure to help their customers collaborate better and smarter.
MongoDB at Microsoft Ignite 2023
We continue to make investments to improve the customer experience of running MongoDB Atlas on Azure. In November, at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Microsoft and MongoDB announced three significant integrations: Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Fabric, and Entity Framework (EF) Core. Let’s look at how customers can benefit from each one.
Semantic Kernel is an open source SDK that enables combining AI services like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face with programming languages like C# and Python. At Ignite, MongoDB announced native support for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in Semantic Kernel. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search allows customers to integrate operational data and vectors in a unified and fully managed platform. Now, customers can use Semantic Kernel to incorporate Atlas Vector Search in applications. This enables, for example, using Atlas Vector Search to interact with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in their work with large language models (LLMs), thereby reducing the risk of AI hallucinations, among other benefits.
Microsoft Fabric can reshape how your teams work with data by bringing everyone together on a single, AI-powered platform built for the era of AI. MongoDB Atlas is the operational data layer for many applications, these customers use MongoDB Atlas to store data from internal enterprise applications, customer-facing services, and third-party APIs across multiple channels. With connectors for Microsoft Fabric pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, our customers can now combine MongoDB Atlas data with relational data from traditional applications and unstructured data from sources like logs, clickstreams, and more. At Microsoft Ignite, we saw exciting announcements making this integration seamless and easy to use for MongoDB customers. During the first keynote, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Fabric is now generally available, and shared a new frictionless way to add and manage existing cloud data warehouses and databases, like MongoDB, in Fabric called Mirroring. Now, MongoDB customers can replicate a snapshot of their database to OneLake and OneLake will automatically keep this replica in sync in near real-time. You can read more on how to unlock the value of data in MongoDB Atlas with the intelligent analytics of Microsoft Fabric here.
Millions of developers depend on C# to write their applications, and a large percentage of these use Entity Framework (EF) Core, a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. MongoDB announced that MongoDB Provider for EF Core is now available in Public Preview. This makes it possible for developers using EF Core to build C#/.NET applications with MongoDB while continuing to use their preferred APIs and design patterns.
In each case, we’ve worked closely with MongoDB to ensure developers, data engineers, and data scientists can easily connect their MongoDB data to Microsoft services.
Image of Satya Nadella, Microsoft President and CEO, presenting at Microsoft Ignite.
A year of strengthened collaboration
These new integrations follow a banner year of collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB. Beyond Microsoft Ignite, we’ve shared a lot of excellent developer news:
The MongoDB for VS Code Extension was made generally available in August 2023. VS Code is the world’s most popular integrated development environment (IDE), and developers downloaded the MongoDB extension over 1 million times during its public preview. This free, downloadable extension makes it easy for developers to build applications and manage data in MongoDB directly from VS Code.
MongoDB integrated with a range of services across the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform (MIDP), including:
Azure Synapse Analytics, to make it easier to analyze operational data
Microsoft Purview, so users can connect to and safeguard MongoDB data
Power BI, making it possible for data analysts to natively transform, analyze, and share dashboards that incorporate live MongoDB Atlas data
Data Federation: Atlas Data Federation can now be deployed in Microsoft Azure and supports Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in private preview.
Microsoft AI and cloud partners help customers achieve more. This is achieved by partners working together on that Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, which includes Databases, Analytics, AI, and Governance.
Jointly published tutorials and more covering:
Building serverless functions with MongoDB Atlas and Azure Functions using .NET and C#, NodeJS, or Java;
Creating MongoDB applications using Azure App Service and NodeJS, Python, C#, or Java;
Building Flask and MongoDB applications with Azure App Container Apps;
Developing IoT data hubs for smart manufacturing with MongoDB Atlas and Azure IoT;
Connecting MongoDB Atlas and Azure Data Studio to allow Azure customers to work with their data stored in Atlas on Azure alongside data stored in other Azure data services
It has been a great year for Microsoft and MongoDB, together making it easier for organizations of all sizes to do more with their data.
Learn more about MongoDB Atlas on Azure
Begin using MongoDB Atlas on Azure through the Azure Marketplace at no cost.
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Learn how to migrate your existing environment to MongoDB Atlas.
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Even if you are remotely following the updates in the technology sector or just keeping track of recent events, you have heard about AI and its potential to change our interactions with systems and simplify our everyday tasks. Microsoft has been at the forefront of this technological revolution, announcing Copilot for Azure, M365, GitHub, and more. We, in Microsoft Cost Management, are also always looking for ways to simplify your FinOps practice so that you can stay focused on your business goals. We have forged some great partnerships with the FinOps Foundation and OpenCost to deliver value to you. Here, I summarize all the major updates of the year, all of these are also covered in detail in the monthly updates.
Strategic partnerships
FinOps Foundation
We started the year (February, 2023) with Microsoft joining the FinOps Foundation as a premier member and also joined the Governing Board defining the strategy and vision of the organization.
Microsoft joins the FinOps Foundation.
Michael Flanakin, from my team, has been closely partnering with the foundation and collaborating with the FinOps community to help drive vision and define the framework to make your FinOps practice efficient.
During Microsoft Ignite 2023, we announced the availability of the FinOps open cost and usage specification (FOCUS) dataset with the new and improved Exports experience. Adhering to a common and standard schema will make consuming and processing the data simpler. Of note, the FOCUS dataset includes both actual and amortized costs in a single dataset, which can drive additional efficiencies in your data ingestion process. You’ll benefit from reduced data processing times and more timely reporting on top of reduced storage and compute costs due to fewer rows and less duplication of data.
To get more details, please read the below blog:
Democratizing FinOps: Transform your practice with FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric.
OpenCost for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) costs visibility
We know that Kubernetes come with a lot of cost benefits and continues to gain popularity. Teams run their applications on a single cluster sharing the infrastructure costs and scaling capacity only when load demands. While this shared computing model is great for cost savings, it makes cost allocation for showback or chargeback scenarios and optimization difficult as teams don’t have visibility into costs of running their workloads.
In April 2023, Microsoft joined the OpenCost community as a contributing partner to bring additional cost visibility to our AKS customers. You can export data (namespace, controller, service, pod granularity) in a comma separated value (CSV) format that can be pushed to an Azure Storage Account, other cloud provider storage, or local storage by installing OpenCost on AKS.
Leverage OpenCost on Azure Kubernetes Service to understand and monitor your infrastructure spend.
This was followed by the preview of AKS cost views in Cost analysis in November making Azure the first cloud provider to provide visibility into Kubernetes costs natively based on the OpenCost project. AKS users always had visibility into the infrastructure costs of running their clusters, with these new cost views they also get visibility into costs of Kubernetes entities starting with namespaces.
View Kubernetes costs (Preview).
Cost visibility and control
Copilot in Cost Management
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, we announced Copilot for Azure to simplify management of your Azure infrastructure and services.
Simplify IT management with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
You can also leverage Copilot to get insights into your costs, understand your invoices, optimize costs, and more. For example, you can use prompts like ‘Summarize the costs for this month’, ‘Why did my charges go up compared to the previous month’, and so on.
If you want to take advantage of all these capabilities, sign up for the preview here:
Request access to preview Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
Cost analysis
We know Cost analysis is your go-tool for analyzing and reporting on costs. We revamped the experience totally, adding smart views for resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and Kubernetes clusters and reservations. With smart views you can quickly get a glance at your summarized costs, identify top cost contributors, get anomaly alerts, and more. You can also drilldown into the next level to get a deeper understanding of the costs.
The new experience automatically pins the views you visit, also providing the ability to pin views you are most likely to visit. You can learn more here:
Quickstart: Start using Cost analysis.
Exports
We know that data is important to you to build and analyze your custom reports. Exports capabilities expanded to cover more datasets: price sheets, reservation recommendations, reservation transactions, and reservation details. With an enhanced user interface, it also allows for file partitioning and file overwriting, helping you save on storage and network costs. You can also enhance security and compliance by configuring exports to storage accounts behind a firewall.
I strongly recommend signing up for the preview functionality here.
Pricesheet download
We launched a newer version of the pricesheet download API last week. The newer version of the Enterprise Agreement (EA) pricesheet will have Reserved Instance prices, market price, and base price. And the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) pricesheet will have Reserved Instance prices. Some of the gaps from the previous version have been addressed with this release to improve your experience, increase cost transparency, increase parity across different pricing experiences, along with the ability to compare different price types.
View and download your organization’s Azure pricing.
Terms in your Enterprise Agreement price sheet.
Terms in your Microsoft Customer Agreement price sheet.
Alerting
In June 2023, we released the ability for you to configure alerts for under-utilized reservations. This works like the way budgets are configured. Setting up the right alerts will maximize your reservation utilization and hence the savings that come with it.
Reservation utilization alerts.
If you don’t want to be surprised and constantly have an eye on your costs, you can also subscribe to email alerts for the built-in views of accumulated costs, daily costs, and costs by service.
Save and share customized views.
Microsoft defender costs
Costs will be presented for each protected resource instead of as an aggregation of all resources on the subscription. If a resource has a tag applied, it will be added to cost records corresponding to the resource’s use of defender.
Important upcoming changes.
These additional capabilities along with EA billing and cost management support in Azure portal, simplified invoices, and additional data for invoice reconciliation should enable you to manage and optimize your costs better.
New ways to save and do more with less
The theme for the year has been AI for Microsoft and with cost management capabilities integrated with Copilot, it should be simpler than ever to analyze and optimize your clouds costs as Copilot preview expands.
Throughout the year, there have also been a bunch of videos and articles released to help you optimize your spending. I have included a few of them for your reference here:
Videos:
Managing, reporting, and reducing your costs in Azure (26 minutes).
Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure (24 minutes).
Optimize your data protection costs with Azure Backup (21 minutes).
Optimize IT investments to maximize efficiency and reduce cloud spend (10 minutes).
How to leverage centrally-managed Azure Hybrid Benefit to save money, manage cost and stay compliant (10 minutes).
Maximize cloud value by optimizing your migration 20 minutes).
Articles:
Optimize your Cloud investment with new Azure Advisor Workbooks.
Improve visibility into workload-related spend using Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management.
Interconnected guidance for an optimized cloud journey.
While there have been numerous updates to our service offerings, I have included few that are directly related to cost optimization and savings for your easy reference.
You can now buy reservations for Microsoft Fabric.
Save up to 17% on Azure container apps using Azure savings plan for compute.
Centralized management of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL server is now generally available.
Resize your host to run more virtual machines (VMs) on the host to save costs.
Efficiently allocate your infrastructure using Node autoprovision in AKS (NAP).
Cost-optimizations with transformations on Log Analytics for troubleshooting Cosmos DB.
Up to 80% price reductions for Azure Stream Analytics.
Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure advisor.
Right-size your VM/VMSS with custom lookback period.
Looking forward to another year
In 2024, we expect to continue our focus on providing you with the data and tools needed to implement your FinOps practice. We expect to continue our investments in:
AI to simplify and act on your charges.FOCUS to provide you with the necessary data in the right format.Exports to make data available for your custom reporting.
New views and alerting capability in Cost analysis.
With all the things that happened in 2023 I couldn’t list everything here. But I hope you find the summary helpful. I strongly encourage you to check out and subscribe to the Microsoft Cost Management monthly updates for the latest news.
We look forward to hearing your feedback as new and updated capabilities become available. And if you’re interested in the latest features, before they’re available to everyone, check out Cost Management Labs and don’t hesitate to reach out with any feedback. Cost Management Labs gives you a direct line to the Microsoft Cost Management engineering team and is the best way to influence and make an immediate impact on features being actively developed and tuned for you.
Follow Microsoft Cost Management on Twitter and subscribe to the YouTube channel for updates, tips, and tricks! And, as always, share your ideas and vote up others in the Cost Management feedback forum.
Best wishes from the Microsoft Cost Management team.
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