Today, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment that’s impacting many enterprise customers’ digital transformation needs. In this place where cloud meets the edge, compute meets mobile, and 5G trends continue to drive innovation—customer demand for advanced network capabilities is surging. For customers, the promise of all these converging technologies is still the ability to […]

The Azure High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution enables experts in silicon design by providing them the infrastructure and tools for chip design, IP design, silicon manufacturing, and silicon supply chain. Creating cutting-edge technologies requires extreme amounts of compute power, and as our customers face additional unique threats and challenges made worse by the pandemic, the Azure […]

When we announced high availability (HA) ports for Azure Load Balancer, we enabled you to leverage network virtual appliances with more flexibility in Azure. HA ports is a unique capability that makes network virtual appliances (NVA) flexible as you deploy them in Azure—a first in the industry, it changed how you deploy NVAs at scale. […]

There’s still time to register for Azure IaaS Day, a free digital event on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 9:00 AM to 11:00AM Pacific Time. Join us to hear more about IaaS innovations, engage with industry leaders and product experts, and explore cloud infrastructure solutions that will grow your business. Here are five reasons to […]

Customers around the world rely on Microsoft Azure to drive innovations related to our environment, public health, energy sustainability, weather modeling, economic growth, and more. Finding solutions to these important challenges requires huge amounts of focused computing power. Customers are increasingly finding the best way to access such high-performance computing (HPC) is through the agility, […]

This year’s theme for OCP Global Summit is Open Possibilities, and in the Microsoft Azure team, we wholeheartedly agree—we have been part of tremendous creativity and resiliency as the community continued to collaborate, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. This year, we are excited to showcase some of our projects and technology at OCP […]

Preview live today, available globally soon We are announcing that a preview is now live for Azure HBv3 virtual machines enhanced by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X”. These processors significantly improve the performance, scaling efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of a variety of memory performance-bound workloads such as CFD, explicit finite […]

Recently AWS announced the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift. This new feature enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. By Steef-Jan Wiggers