n 23rd September 2025, the Welsh Azure User Group marked a major milestone—its 5th anniversary—with a vibrant virtual meetup that blended community spirit, technical innovation, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hosted by long-time organisers John Lunn and Matthew Fortunka, the event brought together Azure enthusiasts from across the UK to reflect on the journey …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG October 2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Samuel Gomez to discuss Azure AI Document Intelligence and the wonderful Anthony Mashford to gain insights on the latest with Azure NetApp Files. Huge thank you …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG September 2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. First up we had John Kilmister on to tell us all about unlocking the potential of Azure Blob storage with a guide to some of the lesser known features. Then …
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Many moons ago when I was studying towards my Computer Science degree, the term 'Netiquette' was used to define an acceptable way of communicating over the internet, from email to Instant Messaging and so on. It was common place that if you used ALL CAPITALS in an email , then it was the equivalent of …
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Hey all, so in this article I am going to take a look at the new Ingestion Client for Azure Speech that was recently Introduced by the Azure Cognitive Services team at Microsoft. This new announcement enables developers to ingest audio files and get them transcribed by the Azure Speech Infrastructure. This article will take …
So we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning built into devices and applications. In this blog article I will walk through a simple example of how to utilise the CustomVision.ai website to create and train an AI model to recognise objects. This website is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services features and …
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Ok so I couldn't let this pass without including it in my 100DaysofCloud Challenge. As part of the superb Festive Tech Calendar (www.festivetechcalendar.com) community event running throughout December 2020, the guys over at AzureishLive set out to help Santa digitise his operations with the help of Azure Cognitive Services as well as a bit a …
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