Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Achieve generative AI operational excellence with the LLMOps maturity model | Microsoft Azure Blog

The Azure LLMOps maturity model is more than just a roadmap from foundational LLM utilization to mastery in deployment and operational management. It is a strategic guide that is essential for navigating the ever-evolving AI landscape of AI. Ready to achieve AI operational excellence? Contact Defensorem IT to put Microsoft's Azure LLMOps maturity model to work in your transformation.

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A leadership view on deploying Microsoft Copilot for Security

In this Microsoft Security video, you'll hear from security experts that have used Microsoft Copilot for Security to enhance security staff knowledge, take on mundane SOC tasks, and free security leadership to focus on high-priority cybersecurity goals and challenges. Watch the video and contact us to discuss how Defensorem IT can help prevent security team burnout at your organization.

Copilot in Teams | Get meeting overviews

With so many meetings and so little time, organizing meeting action items so you can get to what's important quickly is essential. Watch this video for a demo of how Copilot in Teams works to create a meeting overview almost instantly—if not sooner.

Monday, July 29, 2024

Siemens Teamcenter and Microsoft Azure solve the tough challenges with a modern PLM

Deployed on Azure, Siemens offers customers full visibility up and down the product lifecycle from planning to manufacturing to purchasing. Read their story for an in-depth discussion of how Siemens Teamcenter and Microsoft Azure AI are giving customers an edge over the competition, and enabling new, better products to roll out around the world. Contact Defensorem IT to future proof your PLM with Microsoft AI technology.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot | Get up to speed

Watch this brief video to learn how Copilot can spare you embarrassment and keep you up to speed even when you log in late for a meeting. Contact Defensorem IT to make Microsoft 365 Copilot a permanent Teams member.

Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite

Do you have all the cybersecurity talent you need to ensure a fully functioning SOC? If you're like many companies, you have gaps in your cybersecurity team, thanks to a growing lack of cybersecurity professionals. This lack of talent, combined with the sophistication of many cyberattacks, is making AI-enabled security solutions much more advantageous. As this in-depth article shows, Microsoft has a range of AI-powered security solutions that can make your SOC run much more smoothly and effectively, even with fewer human cybersecurity staff. Read the article and contact us to discuss how Defensorem IT's team of experts can help close your cybersecurity talent gaps.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

What's new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Are you ready to go from GenAI experimentation to solutions at scale?

The AI era is here — and moving at warp speed rerouting technology roadmaps and dramatically accelerating transformation and value realization timelines. Microsoft is once again at the forefront of development and deployment of responsible AI. In this blog article, you'll take a deep dive into what's new in Azure Data, AI and digital applications. What's more, you will learn how by deploying Azure you can go from GenAI experimentation to solutions deployed at scale - and realize a substantial ROI in the process. Ready to make your move from AI experimentation to innovative AI solutions with Azure? Defensorem ITcan help you get started.

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Copilot in Teams: Discern Opinions Quickly

Watch this brief video for a demonstration of Copilot in Teams capability to discern and summarize quickly and concisely the concerns and perspectives of meeting participants. Contact Defensorem IT to get started with Copilot in Teams.

Analytics Lessons Learned: How five companies increased data value with unified analytics solutions

Even when well along on the journey to digital transformation, many organizations are still unable to extract timely and accurate insights from their data. How do they get back on the right track? Read this eBook about how unified cloud analytics help IT teams uncover new insights and explore data in a scalable, secure and timely manner.

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Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR

If your cybersecurity team or SOC is overwhelmed, you should know about Microsoft's Defender Experts for XDR, a service that supports your in-house staff when needed. Powered by Microsoft's industry-leading Defender XDR suite, Defender Experts for XDR can help your security team to triage, investigate and respond to incidents and help stop attackers before they can get to your data. Download and read this Microsoft datasheet to get all the details.

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Monday, July 22, 2024

INSPIRE Environmental uses Azure AI to improve efficiency and streamline data analysis to meet the pace of offshore wind development

INSPIRE Environmental (INSPIRE), is a Venterra Group company dedicated to monitoring seafloor health. Labor-intensive data collection and analysis was impacting the quality of data and jeopardizing the company's long-standing reputation for delivering timely and reliable results. Read the story for details on how INSPIRE used Microsoft Azure AI solutions to analyze complex ocean data more quickly and efficiently, lower costs and reduce turnaround times for clients. Contact Defensorem IT for more information on how Azure AI can streamline your transformation to the cloud.

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Copilot in Teams: Ask Better Questions

When it's time to kickstart your brain cells into action, turn on Copilot for a list of insightful questions to ask in a pitch meeting or creative brainstorming session. Watch.

Microsoft Copilot for Security provides immediate impact for the Microsoft Defender Experts team | Microsoft Security Blog

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant offers great opportunities for helping SOCs and other security professionals in their work. That's why the Microsoft Defender Experts team has been exploring ways in which Copilot for Security can help them to streamline and optimize SOC capabilities — from improving communication clarity to data analysis and upskilling. In this article, Microsoft brings you a new series of short videos showing how Copilot is helping navigate threat detection, investigation, and managed response.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Belfius uses Microsoft Azure Machine Learning to help detect fraud and money laundering

When Belfius, a prominent Belgian bank, started using AI and Machine Learning in operations, they struggled to synergize results for monitoring potential illegal activity. What did they do? Read this insightful customer story showing how by using Azure Machine Learning, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks Belfius improved development time, increased efficiency and gained reliability.

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Top 3 tips for using Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Watch this tutorial to learn how Microsoft Copilot in Teams can help catch you up when you're running late, inspire discussion topics, and even recommend ideas to help break the awkward silences. Contact Defensorem IT to get started with Copilot in Teams.

Simplifying cloud migration and modernization journey with Microsoft Azure

Digital transformation is a driving force in business. And enterprises today are accelerating digital initiatives to gain a competitive edge. Read this eBook to see why cloud is such an important tool in this process and how Microsoft Azure enables you to start and accelerate migration at the pace you choose.

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Cyber Signals Feb 2024

In this eBook by Microsoft, you'll get an overview of key cybersecurity trends including the role of AI in cyberattacks and cyber defense. The eBook also offers advice on protecting your organization. Download it here. 👇

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Monday, July 15, 2024

Top 5 reasons to migrate to Azure VMware Solution

There are a lot of good reasons to migrate your VMware workloads from your datacenter to Azure with Azure VMware Solution (AVS). Get this infographic to see the top 5 reasons we think AVS is the optimal route to the cloud, and get in touch with Defensorem IT to see how we can help.

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What is machine learning?

Processing mathematical models of data to help a computer learn without direct instruction is how machine learning (ML) is defined. However, as you probably know already, there's so much more to ML. See this instructive website by Microsoft Azure explaining how ML works to solve problems, how it's used in modern industry and how ML learning algorithms are developed.

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Microsoft Teams: Building a Foundation for the Future

Teams has grown to serve over 320 million monthly active users across 181 markets and 44 languages. Today, more than 75% of monthly active users are using the new built-from-the-ground-up desktop app for Windows and Mac. But a new era is on the way. Read this blog for a deep dive into the many investments Microsoft is making across the board in the fundamentals of Teams, setting a new standard for performance, reliability, and simplicity. Contact Defensorem IT to get started with the new era of Microsoft Teams.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Three Smart Ways to Exceed Your Customers' Digital Expectations

The survey says: "High-quality CX isn't a nice-to-have—it's a revenue driver." That may be the understatement of the decade. Fully 73% of consumers rank customer experience (CX) as a vital factor in their purchase decisions (coming after only price and product quality). Download this eBook for insights on the innovative new digital tools and strategies business leaders like John Hancock are embracing to rise above customer expectations and stay competitive. Contact Defensorem IT to start driving your revenue to greater heights with Azure digital tools and services.

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The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams provides a versatile, feature-rich integration platform for enterprises to streamline workflows, digitize and automate processes, and connect and empower employees across departments and locations to strengthen strategic alignment, engagement and productivity. Read this Forrester Analytic Report for everything you need to know about cost savings and business benefits enabled by Teams as a unified platform for communication and collaboration. Download it today. Contact Defensorem IT with questions and comments.

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4 Strategies to Address the Biggest Challenges in Data Security

The rapidly growing volume of data, structured and unstructured, stored in diverse places makes data security more challenging than ever. In this eBook, you'll get a quick but advanced view of the top challenges in data security today and advice for overcoming them. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook to dissect the how and why of understanding and protecting data and defending against identity-based threats.

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Grupo Bimbo bakes in end-to-end data security and compliance with Microsoft Purview

This customer story video shows how Grupo Bimbo, a major player in the consumer goods industry, rigorously protects its trove of recipes and R&D assets. Its vast store of sensitive data calls for greater visibility and safeguards to ensure compliance with regulations in the many countries where Grupo Bimbo operates. The company has addressed that need by implanting solutions from the Microsoft Purview family of data security, governance, risk, and compliance applications. Watch it now!

Microsoft named a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

In today's rapidly changing tech environment, being recognized by an organization as prestigious as Gartner® calls for a celebration. Read this inspiring blog about how Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. The report showed that Microsoft had gone furthest in Completeness of Vision.

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Monday, July 8, 2024

B.TECH scales retail operations and slashes time-to-market 30 percent with Microsoft Azure

B-Tech is an Egyptian retail giant specializing in household appliances and consumer electronics. Read how B-Tech used its digital transformation arm b_labs to build a competitive advantage with Microsoft Azure, boosted service availability to 99.9 percent, cut time to market by 30%. Bye-Bye Black Friday back-office blues. Ready to build your competitive advantage with Microsoft Azure? Defensorem IT is ready too.

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Canopius enables data & AI innovation by building a strong foundation with Azure

What happens when a worldwide leader in insurance finds that its technology infrastructure is slowing down and preventing future innovation? Find out in this perceptive customer story about how Canopius migrated from dual data centers to the more agile, cost-effective environment of Microsoft Azure.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

What is the Right Way to AI?

Wondering how to get the most effective AI for your organization? You'll need a unique strategy to deploy and drive adoption. Check out this solution brief for the guidance you need to do AI the right way. Contact Defensorem IT for assistance rolling out your AI adoption with Copilot.

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Crash Course in Microsoft Purview

With ChatGPT and other AI-powered productivity applications in use in corporate America, companies need to pay attention to the data that is flowing through those AI applications. Safeguarding sensitive data requires a data management and governance plan. In this e-book, you'll learn how the Microsoft Purview data management platform delivers. Download and read the eBook and learn about Purview's platform-based approach that enables information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance across multicloud, multiplatform data estates.

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Alabama Appellate Courts System transforms and modernizes judicial operations with Azure.

"In the words of Blake T. Lunsford, Director of Information Technology at Alabama Appellate Courts System (AACS) their "technology infrastructure was functional but lagging behind modern standards...and faced limitations in terms of system integration, scalability, and security capabilities." Microsoft empowered Lunsford's AACS IT team to modernize a new case management system while also upgrading to Windows 11 Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Government. Great story. Check it out. Ready to modernize your IT infrastructure? Let Defensorem IT help you get started.

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Monday, July 1, 2024

Build your own copilot with Azure AI Studio

Copilots are quickly becoming known as a unique AI category that gives businesses the opportunity to get products and services quickly to market. Watch this informative video about how your organization can build custom copilots using Azure AI Studio, the platform where you can confidently apply the latest state- of-the-art and open-source models.

AI Data Drop: The 11 by 11 Tipping Point

Recently, Microsoft conducted a study of more than 1,300 early Copilot adopters across multiple industries to discover what their early behaviors could teach them about the good and bad effects of adopting and rolling out AI. Read this blog post for an analysis of what "the 11-by-11 tipping point" means for your Copilot users in terms of improved productivity, work enjoyment, work-life balance and the ability to attend fewer meetings. Ready to adopt and roll out AI? Microsoft Copilot expert Defensorem IT can help get you started.

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Our commitments to advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI

Microsoft announced its support for the Biden administration's program of voluntary vendor commitments to safer AI applications. The standards aim to ensure that AI systems are secure, and trustworthy. Read about the AI commitments in this article by Microsoft.

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WSP empowers engineers and scientists with Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Customer Stories

See how AI adoption at scale drives measurable productivity gains. This customer story highlights how global services firm, WSP, expanded...