5 Highlights Thursday | 5th Sept 2024

Welcome back to the weekly dose of 5 Highlights Thursday. Where I cover list of Azure/Development/AI information and links that you may find helpful in your Azure journey. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy such sharing.

1.Unlocking Azure cloud services with Azure VMware Solution

Discover how to unlock Azure cloud services using Azure VMware Solution in this informative session with Joe Sarabia! ?? Learn about modernizing workloads, securing private cloud environments, and integrating Azure services for ultimate efficiency. ????#AVS #AzureVMwareSolution

2. Phi-3-Vision: A highly capable and "small" language vision model

Hear Jianfeng Gao, Distinguished Scientist and Vice President in Microsoft Research Redmond, introduces Phi-3-Vision, an advanced and economical open-source multimodal model. As a member of the Phi-3 model family, Phi-3-Vision enhances language models by integrating multi-sensory skills, seamlessly combining language and vision capabilities.

3. Azure Developer .NET Aspire Day 2024

Save the date! Join the .NET Aspire Day 2024 livestream (September 18) to learn how to harness cutting-edge #Azure services and components for your #dotNET #Aspire projects. Register now below.

4. RAGHack: Let's build RAG applications together

??? Build, innovate, and #Hacktogether! ??? It's time to start building AI applications using the power of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). ?? + ?? = ??

5. Binary drift detection in Defender for Containers

In this episode of Defender for Cloud in the Field, Eyal Gur joins Yuri Diogenes to talk about Binary drift detection in Defender for Containers. Eyal explain what binary drift is, why this is an important event to monitor and how you can create policies in Defender for Container to manage drift detection alerts. Eyal also demonstrates how to create policies, the logic behind the policy and how to visualize the alerts in Defender for Cloud and in Microsoft XDR.

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Have a wonderful Thursday :)

Taswar