We are honored to be recognized again by Gartner® as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services.
We are honored to once again be recognized as a leader by Gartner® in the recently released 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). In the report, Gartner ranked Microsoft highest for completeness of vision. We are proud to again be recognized as a leader in this Magic Quadrant.
Microsoft provides a comprehensive platform with industry-leading AI and cloud services to help organizations innovate with confidence. Microsoft Azure offers a wide range of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions to fit any enterprise IT scenario. Azure’s powerful adaptive cloud capabilities enable enterprises to seamlessly integrate their on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments with the cloud.
AI is reinvigorating the potential of technology and transforming industries faster than we thought. Preparing to transform with AI means companies must have a clear strategic vision, invest in data infrastructure, foster collaboration across departments, upskill their workforce, and integrate cutting-edge technologies into their core operations to increase efficiency. do. Azure gives you the flexibility you need, whether you operate in a hybrid, multicloud, and distributed environment at the edge, or deploy a variety of workloads and data sources to meet your business needs. A trusted, industry-leading partner that helps customers protect their data, ensure regulatory compliance, modernize their data assets and infrastructure, and build intelligent applications that meet their significant data processing and computing performance requirements as their business grows. I want. .
A cloud platform that supports your innovation
Azure’s strength as a platform lies in its ability to advance organizations with industry-leading AI and cloud services. Every layer, from silicon to software, has been enhanced and custom designed to deliver the performance you need for AI and all types of workloads. No matter your use case, Azure AI has you covered. We have the widest range of models, from Microsoft’s Phi-3 family of small language models to frontier and open models, including models from OpenAI and Meta, Mistral, and Cohere.
Microsoft has the expertise and scale to run AI supercomputers that power the world’s largest AI services, such as Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT, Bing, and more. End-to-end system innovations leveraging industry-leading silicon from partners like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, as well as in-house Maia and Cobalt and innovations like Hollow Core Fiber and Azure Boost, are optimized in every way. It provides a layer for performance and efficiency while supporting all the applications and data that integrate with the AI models you use.
Today, more than 60,000 customers are using Azure AI and seeing the benefits of automation, personal productivity, customer engagement, and net new product creation. Our platform also enables large-scale generative AI experiences with built-in safety and security. Azure AI provides developers with a comprehensive set of cloud-based AI services and tools, enabling them to build intelligent applications without specialized AI or data science expertise.
Mercedes-Benz, for example, aimed to deliver a highly personalized experience that adapts to its customers’ habits, anticipates their needs and, most importantly, allows drivers to focus on the road. The company’s MBUX in-vehicle voice assistant, powered by the Azure OpenAI service, offers unique capabilities to understand voice commands and facilitate conversational conversations. Unlike regular voice assistants that require precise commands, GPT-4 powered by Azure OpenAI can handle complex follow-up questions and track context.
Choose your environment, workload, and technology
Customers want the choice to change in the way that best suits their business. Whether you want to leverage the best of open source, operate globally, or run workloads and process data in hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments, Azure gives you the flexibility to do it.
With more than 300 data centers across 34 countries, Microsoft’s infrastructure brings applications closer to users, ensures data residency, and provides customers with robust compliance and resiliency options. We continue to invest in expanding our global capabilities to meet the growing needs of our customers. This extensive network, combined with our overall strategy, gives our customers the flexibility to achieve optimal performance, efficiency and cost-effectiveness regardless of their location, the workloads they manage or the open source technologies, including Linux, they use.
It’s important that organizations have the choice to use the technology that best suits their business and that developers can succeed using open source software of their choice. Azure provides best-in-class support for a wide range of technologies, including operating systems such as Linux, languages such as Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby, databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, and cloud native services. You can also use frameworks like Kubernetes or Hadoop or WordPress. SWISS International Air Lines recognized that migrating to Azure would increase flexibility, add volume, and reduce costs while allowing it to use Java, Oracle, MySQL, or .NET.
In addition to open source, our deep partnerships with other enterprise market leaders such as SAP, VMware, Oracle, Databricks, Citrix, and NetApp provide customers the flexibility to run mission-critical enterprise workloads on Azure with optimal performance and security.
Additionally, Microsoft has been named a leader in the new 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the second year in a row. Microsoft’s adaptive cloud approach helps you streamline operations, increase scalability, and reduce costs while maintaining flexibility and control over your cloud environment.
Our commitment to leading responsibly as a cloud provider
Choosing a cloud platform to power innovation is not just about having powerful AI-based systems. It is important to ensure that the platform is inherently secure. Microsoft is committed to trustworthy AI and developing industry-leading technologies to support it. Our commitment and capabilities work together to protect customers and developers at every level.
At Microsoft, trust is paramount, and our expanded Secure Future Initiative (SFI) highlights our commitment to security, safety, and privacy. We recently shared our first SFI progress report, covering updates on culture, governance, technology and operations. Built on the principles of Security by Design, Security by Default, and Security in Operations, this report reaffirms our commitment to security. We have invested heavily in our governance structures, policies, tools, and processes to safely develop and deploy AI.
Our customers continue to benefit from this partnership and our responsible AI principles. SOPHiA GENETICS, a Swiss company providing data-driven healthcare solutions, has developed a cloud-based platform that uses AI to analyze genomic data. Given the sensitivity of this data, security was critical to the mission. Working with Microsoft on security solutions such as Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft Sentinel allows SOPHiA GENETICS to identify and minimize security risks so it can continue to focus on delivering healthcare solutions through the SOPHiA AI platform.
Accelerate innovation and maximize cloud value
Microsoft is committed to our customers’ success and makes sure they have the support they need throughout their cloud journey. Accelerate innovation with purpose-built, AI-powered, industry-specific solutions to help you realize value faster with Microsoft Azure. And because we’ve built an ecosystem of trusted partners who are always innovating, we can easily keep up with industry changes. You can count on seamless integration with Azure’s applications and solutions, preconfigured for your industry, to stay ahead of the competitive marketplace.
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Gartner, Strategic Cloud Platform Services Magic Quadrant, David Wright, Dennis Smith, October 21, 2024,
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