New Partnerships Announced at Ignite

At this year’s Ignite event, several new Azure Native Integrations partner solutions were announced, each bringing unique value to the building scalable and highly performant apps on Azure. These solutions span various industries and offer innovative solutions that complement Azure’s capabilities.

New AI Partnerships:

We are excited to announce the private preview of four new AI partner solutions, now available directly on the Microsoft Azure portal through Azure Native Integrations. All the four partners, Arize AI, LambdaTest, Pinecone and Weights & Biases bring in their cutting-edge innovation, empowering AI engineers and developers to build more scalable, reliable, and effective AI applications. With this integration, you can now get a seamless experience for leading AI toolchain solutions on Azure.

With the Azure Native Integrations, you can experience the following benefits:

• Seamless development experience: Azure Native Integrations facilitates a smooth onboarding process, allowing you to quickly integrate the partner solutions into your existing Azure workflows while leveraging Azure’s secure and scalable infrastructure.
• Simplified deployment: Azure Native Integrations allows you to easily provision and manage partner applications using familiar tools such as Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI and SDK.
• Ease of billing: This integration lets you control your third-party spends directly from the Azure Marketplace.
• Single Sign on: You can seamlessly switch between the Azure resource and the partner organization without needing to enter your credentials again.

Private Preview of Arize AI on Azure

This collaboration brings Arize AI's innovative observability and model evaluation capabilities to Azure, empowering you to build more reliable and effective AI applications. With Arize AI on Azure, you can leverage the robust infrastructure of Microsoft's cloud computing platform to enhance your AI workflows.

Key Benefits

Enhanced Model Performance: Arize AI provides comprehensive tools to monitor and evaluate machine learning models, ensuring they perform optimally in production environments.

Improved Application Reliability: By continuously validating and monitoring generative app performance, Arize AI helps ensure application reliability as input data shifts and new use cases arise.

Faster Development Cycles: Arize AI allows for rapid iteration using pre-production app evaluations and workflows to test and compare the results of various prompt iterations

Dynamic Data Improvements: The platform automatically flags low-performing sessions for review and identifies challenging or ambiguous examples for further analysis and fine-tuning

How it works?

 

Next steps

Sign up today for the private preview and give us feedback. Register here or learn more.

Private Preview of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure

This collaboration brings LambdaTest's advanced test execution and orchestration capabilities to Azure, providing you with a powerful tool to enhance your DevOps workflows. LambdaTest HyperExecute is designed to provide scalable and secure test execution and orchestration at different points in your DevOps (CI/CD) lifecycle. With HyperExecute on Azure, you can leverage the robust infrastructure of Microsoft's cloud computing platform to optimize your testing processes.

Key Benefits

AI-Powered Test Creation with KaneAI: KaneAI, LambdaTest’s AI-driven tool, automates test creation and maintenance, reducing manual effort and errors. It converts requirements or code into automated test cases, supporting a shift-left testing approach to improve software quality early in the development cycle.

Seamless Integration with Microsoft DevTools: HyperExecute connects with Microsoft’s developer ecosystem, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, VS Code, and Playwright. This integration enhances workflows by enabling AI-driven code suggestions, continuous testing within CI/CD workflows, and robust UI testing across multiple browsers and devices.

Blazing-Fast Cross-Browser Testing: HyperExecute’s cloud infrastructure on Azure accelerates test execution by running tests in parallel across different browsers and environments. This ensures a consistent user experience across all platforms and scales dynamically to meet high testing workloads.

Real-Time Monitoring and AI-Driven Test Maintenance: HyperExecute offers a comprehensive dashboard for monitoring test executions, with detailed reports and logs for instant analysis. KaneAI helps identify flaky or redundant tests, reducing manual intervention and keeping the test suite optimized.

How it works?

Next steps

Sign up today for the private preview and give us feedback. Register here or learn more  .

Private Preview of Pinecone on Azure

This collaboration brings Pinecone's powerful vector database capabilities to Azure, enabling you to build safe, accurate, and scalable AI applications. Pinecone provides long-term memory for AI, allowing you to securely connect private data to Large Language Models (LLMs). This ensures you receive relevant and accurate responses from search or generative AI applications. With Pinecone on Azure, you can leverage the robust infrastructure of Microsoft's cloud computing platform, to enhance your AI applications.

Key Benefits

Enhanced AI Capabilities: Pinecone curtails hallucination-in generative AI applications, ensuring accurate and reliable responses. This is particularly useful for your applications that require high precision and consistency

Scalability and Security: Pinecone's architecture is designed to handle massive amounts of vector data, providing the scalability and security needed to support enterprise-grade AI applications

Improved Performance: Pinecone's solution is designed to deliver lightning-fast query times, even for large datasets, ensuring responsive and efficient applications

Accuracy: Pinecone offers accuracy, scalability, and faster development times through its integrations with OpenAI and GitHub CoPilot, allowing you to focus on creating the next generation of AI applications

How it works?

 

Next steps

Sign up today for the private preview and give us feedback. Register here or learn more.

Private Preview of Weights & Biases (W&B) on Azure

This collaboration brings W&B’s powerful machine learning experimentation platform to Azure, providing you with advanced tools to streamline your AI workflows. W&B is designed to help you track, visualize, and optimize your models. With W&B on Azure, you can leverage the robust infrastructure of Microsoft's cloud computing platform to enhance your machine learning projects.

Key Benefits

Increased Productivity: W&B Models help you iterate on models, analyse experiments, and collaborate seamlessly, making the development process more efficient.

Comprehensive Experiment Tracking: You can track, version, and visualize experiments with ease, allowing for faster execution and higher quality models.

Enhanced Visualization and Analysis: The platform provides tools to visualize and analyse experiment results, optimize hyperparameters, and compare thousands of experiments in real-time.

Centralized AI Asset Management: The Registry feature allows for the publication and reuse of models, datasets, and configurations, creating a single source of truth for all AI assets.

How it works?

Next steps

Sign up today for the private preview and give us feedback. Register here or learn more.

Other Partner Integrations

We are also pre-announcing public preview of additional solutions including Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solutions (AVS), Dell APEX File Storage for Azure, and Neon Serverless Postgres offers as part of Azure Native Integrations.

Pure Storage

Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a fully managed block storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering available for AVS. offered as an Azure Native Service.

Inclusion in the Azure Native Integrations gives Pure Storage customers a seamless management and deployment experience across both the Azure Portal and their Pure Storage environment, with the ability to use services against their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC). The first service that will be made available is a fully managed service for AVS to remove storage infrastructure barriers for enterprise customers migrating VMware workloads to the cloud. 

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Dell

Dell APEX File Storage for Azure is a powerful public cloud solution that brings the reliability and performance of Dell on-premises storage technology to the Azure cloud available as a Azure Native offerings. This software-defined cloud solution combines the trusted enterprise-class data services and processing power of the Dell PowerScale OneFS software platform with the scalability and flexibility of Azure. With Dell APEX Storage, organizations can simplify their journey to the cloud with seamless data mobility and operational consistency between on premises and cloud environments.

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Neon

Neon Serverless Postgres what is the serverless, fully managed, and scalable Postgres database with advanced features like automatic testing, high availability, and robust security. We are excited to announce Neon Serverless Postgres is coming soon and will be available on Microsoft Azure through Azure Native Integrations. Developers will soon have the ability to create Neon organizations from the Azure portal, benefiting from a modern Postgres service while keeping their existing security, compliance, and billing requirements.

About Azure Native Integrations

Azure has long been at the forefront of providing robust cloud solutions for businesses of all sizes. Azure Native Integrations is the latest endeavour to further this mission by creating a cohesive environment where third-party applications and services are effortlessly integrated with Azure. With Azure Native Integrations developers and businesses can seamlessly utilize the capabilities of leading partner solutions while benefiting from Azure’s scalability and security. Learn More