One of Microsoft’s recent blog posts asks a good question: “We already use Datadog (or Prometheus, etc.). Why switch just because we added Azure OpenAI?” The short answer: you don’t have to. Microsoft is making it possible to monitor Azure OpenAI with your existing observability tools — but with caveats, trade-offs, and setup work. Let’s…
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What Does the IT Department Really Do?
(Spoiler: More Than You Think, and Definitely More Than They’re Paid For) Most people only think of IT when something explodes. Your Teams call drops, your laptop refuses to connect to Wi-Fi, or that mysterious spinning wheel becomes your new screensaver. Suddenly, IT is the most important department in the company. But here’s the catch:…
VMware’s Not Dead — It’s Just Moving to Azure (And Thank God for That)
hi. u ever tried moving a legacy VMware workload?not fun. there’s always a busted backup plan, a finance guy panicking about licensing, and some old dev server named dev2-final-final-actualthisone running SQL 2008 that nobody wants to touch. but u gotta move. datacenter lease’s expiring. hardware’s dying. CFO’s breathing down ur neck. and public cloud? looks…