Microsoft Ignite 2023 guide: AI transformation and Microsoft Azure

AI transformation is a key theme at Microsoft Ignite 2023. Indeed, AI is revolutionizing our world, driving rapid innovation, and transforming how we engage with technology personally and professionally. To keep up, organizations are making significant investments to harness this technology and unlock new opportunities to thrive in the era of AI with Microsoft Azure and adjacent technologies.

For today’s organizations to thrive, understanding how to harness the power of AI is imperative. Gartner® predicts that by 2025, Generative AI will be a workforce partner for 90% of companies worldwide… Currently, 77% of CIOs and technology leaders worldwide are focused on opportunities of everyday AI.¹

At this year’s Microsoft Ignite 2023, taking place in Seattle on November 14-17, attendees will explore the potential of AI to drive innovation and thrive in this new digital-centric era. As a Microsoft strategic partner, Dynatrace delivers answers and intelligent automation for cloud-native technologies and Azure. Read on to learn more about how Dynatrace delivers AI transformation to accelerate modern cloud strategies.

Exploring AI transformation at the verge of sustainability and edge computing

On the verge of a data-driven digital transformation 2.0, CIOs are under greater pressure to deliver real-world business value from transformation initiatives. Many organizations that were paralyzed by evaluating technology investments in the past are now speeding toward innovation and swift execution using cloud-native technologies and Microsoft Azure to meet strategic business goals. In this time of rapid change, teams are also under greater scrutiny to maximize IT investments in a new wave of sustainable readiness. Microsoft defines sustainability as having a strong digital foundation to track and manage data and adopt data-driven solutions to accelerate progress and reduce an organization’s carbon footprint.

Furthermore, an accelerating digital-centric economy pushes us closer to the edge—processing client data as close to the originating source as possible. The surge of the internet of things (IoT) has led to the exponential growth of applications and data processing at the edge. For many teams, this requires a new approach to managing and processing data across different environments, which can prove resource-intensive and cost-prohibitive. However, with a strategic approach, teams can harness real-time data to make agile, informed decisions and meet key business goals.

AI transformation accelerates innovation for your Azure cloud strategy

As our digital-centric world accelerates, the focus at Dynatrace is on AI and AIOps to ensure that Azure users can accelerate innovation and maximize automation as IT environments evolve. The rapid pace and scale of innovation in the cloud create the need for a unified observability and security strategy.

Migrating to the Cloud is an evolution that requires teams to re-evaluate and optimize continuously to enable short and long-term success. At Dynatrace, we’re deeply committed to innovating with Microsoft and ensuring the delivery of exceptional user experiences — built on deep technical backend integrations to support customers’ evolving needs.

Following are featured resources that showcase the dynamic and innovative partnership between Dynatrace and Microsoft to help organizations meet their strategic and sustainability goals.

	Latest Dynatrace platform innovations available to customers on Microsoft Azure – press release Learn how Dynatrace empowers teams across organizations to collaborate, create, and share AI-driven analytics, apps, and automations for any business, development, security, or operations use case.
	Enhancing Azure data analytics and Azure observability with Dynatrace Grail – blog Dynatrace recently announced the availability of its latest core innovations for customers running the Dynatrace® platform on Microsoft Azure, including Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse. Continue reading to learn why this is important and what it means for Azure customers.
	Microsoft Azure: Embracing the power of cloud technology with next-gen observability – blog Azure users can look to Dynatrace to bring down the barrier between development, operations, and security to achieve greater transparency over their environment and reduce the total cost of ownership.
	The new frontier of cloud modernisation – article featured in Technology Record Magazine Ken Clayton highlights how Dynatrace’s artificial intelligence-powered observability platform helps enterprises to maximise the value of their Microsoft Azure cloud modernisation projects.
	Innovate faster with Azure Native Dynatrace Service – webinar The Dynatrace platform allows Azure users to better architect, operate, and build in the Cloud by delivering automatic answers that accelerate innovation and drive operational efficiency for Azure cloud adoption and usage.
	Dynatrace announces expanded multi-year consumption commitment and go-to-market partnership with Microsoft – press release Joint sales and marketing initiatives and deep technical integrations to drive accelerated, global adoption of the Dynatrace platform native on Microsoft Azure.
	From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact – blog Learn how the Carbon Impact app, developed using Dynatrace® AppEngine, tracks carbon emissions across hybrid and multicloud environments, delivering analytics and recommendations that support carbon-reduction initiatives.
	From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact – blog Organizations can turn to innovative solutions to improve their energy efficiency by mitigating their cloud computing carbon footprint.

To learn more about how Dynatrace AI and automation can accelerate innovation for your Azure cloud strategy, check out booth #322. If you’d like to schedule a meeting with our team on site, please get in touch with us at sales@dynatrace.com.

And don’t miss out on hearing Jay Gurbani, Dynatrace cloud technical partner manager, during his sessions on Mastering Cloud Modernization: AI, Automation, Observability, and Monitoring your Azure Linux Kubernetes clusters with Dynatrace. We hope to see you there!

_{1 – Gartner Press Release, “Gartner Says CIOs Must Prioritize Their AI Ambition and AI-Ready Scenarios for Next 12-24 Months,” October 16, 2023 [https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-10-16-gartner-says-cios-must-prioritize-their-ai-ambition-and-ai-ready-scenarios-for-next-12-24-months] GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.}