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Published May 1, 2023 • 6 min read

ISC 2023: Experience the power of HPC in the cloud with Microsoft Azure

By Rachel Pruitt Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing, HPC+AI

Hall H, Booth K1001—Ground Floor on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, from 1:40 PM to 2:00 PM CEST. HPC infrastructure for AI outcomes: Learning at large scale—Monday, May 22, 2023. Time to be announced... Newest advancements since ISC 2022 Azure HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines, now in preview In November 2022, the latest advancements in purpose-built virtual machines targeted for HPC workloads brought...the HBv4-series and HX-series, powered by long awaited, newest 4th Gen EPYCTM AMD processors, codenamed ‘Genoa.’ The HBv4-series is the next generation of our long running, flagship HB-series, and brings significant improvements to key workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis...

Azure Arc, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Stack Edge, Compute, Hybrid + Multicloud, Partners

Published February 24, 2020 • 5 min read

Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service

By Fardau van Neerden Cloud Solution Architect

Burst encoding in the cloud with Azure and Media Excel HERO platform.Content creation has never been as in demand as it is today. Both professional and user-generated content has increased exponentially over the past years. This puts a lot of stress on media encoding and transcoding platforms. Add the upcoming 4K and even 8K to the mix...offers support to a hybrid scenario for your computing needs and Azure ARC helps you to manage hybrid setups.Finding a solutionGenerally, 4K/UHD live encoding is done on dedicated hardware encoder units, which cannot be hosted in a public...cloud like Azure. With such dedicated hardware units hosted on-premise that need to push 4K into the Azure data center the immediate problem we face is a need for high bandwidth networ...

Announcements, Compute

Published April 30, 2018 • 1 min read

Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available

By Rashmi Iyer Program Manager, Azure Compute

...logs of their mission critical databases. You can also cache the Write Accelerator disks so that reads are serviced from the cache for ultra-low latencies. Here is an example of IO performance with 4k writes on an M128s VM...

Azure Video Indexer, Events, Media, Media Services

Published September 14, 2018 • 4 min read

From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending IBC Show 2018 – Welkom in Amsterdam!

By Tad Brockway Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure for Operators

...is always protected and stored in the most cost-effective way.Fans around the world want to see their favorite event in ever increasing detail, liveAt IBC we’re showing how Azure Media Services can help deliver UHD/4K HLG streams from the cloud. First, Media Excel’s HERO™on-premises encoders push an UHD/4K HEVC contribution feed over...

Azure Blob Storage, Storage

Published December 22, 2016 • 2 min read

General Availability: Larger Block Blobs in Azure Storage

By Microsoft Azure

...for larger files. The introduction of larger Block Blobs increases the maximum file size from 195 GB to 4.77 TB. The increased blob size better supports a diverse range of scenarios, from media companies storing and processing 4K and 8K videos to cancer researchers sequencing DNA. Azu...and Put Block List also covers object mutability. We have increased the maximum allowable block size from 4 MB to 100 MB, while maintaining support for up to 50,000 blocks committed to a single Blob. Range GETs continue to be supported on larger Block Blobs allowing high speed parallel downloads of the entire Blob, or just...

Announcements, Azure Blob Storage, Storage

Published May 4, 2020 • 4 min read

Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage—now in preview

By Xin Huang Program Manager, Azure Storage

...engine exposes the new blob index shortly after. Later on, an encoding application wants to find all unprocessed media files that are at least 4K resolution quality. It issues a FindBlobs API call to find all blobs that match the following criteria: < Status = Unprocessed AND Quality >= 4K AND Status == RAW>. The blob...The below scenario is an example of how Blob Index works: In a storage account container with a million blobs, a user uploads a new blob “B2” with the following blob index tags: < Status = Unprocessed, Quality = 8K, Source = RAW >. The blob and its blob index tags are persisted to the storage account and the account indexing...

AI + Machine Learning, Azure Video Indexer, Best practices

Published January 27, 2020 • 5 min read

Six things to consider when using Video Indexer at scale

By Itay Arbel Program Manager, Azure Media Services, Video Indexer

...and time needed to upload the video.Our experiences show that, in many cases, indexing performance has almost no difference between HD (720P) videos and 4K videos. Eventually, you’ll get almost the same insights with the same confidence.For examp...there are many small but contextually important faces. However, this will come with a quadratic increase in runtime and an increased risk of false positives.Therefore, we recommend you to verify that you get the right results for your use case and to first test it locally. Upload the same video in 720P and in 4K and compare the insights you get...we will specify when you should attempt your next retry. Make sure you respect it before trying your next request.4. Use callback...

Azure confidential ledger, Databases

Published October 16, 2018 • 3 min read

Accessibility and array support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.4.0

By Zeyad Rajabi Principal Program Manager, Azure Blockchain Engineering

...; }If this function is not part of your Solidity code, we will show an error when uploading your blockchain application.Support for strings up to 4k charactersOne of the limitations in Workbench is the data type strings can only be 256 chara...Accessibility is a key pillar in our vision of empowering every person and every organization to achieve more. We are excited to share some of the improvements we’ve made with accessibility in mind.To use 1.4, you can either deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure Portal or upgrade your existing deployment to 1.4.0 using our...and view blockchain applications. The application interface is dynamically generated based on smart contract metadata and can accommodate any use case. The client application delivers a user-facing front-end to the complete blockchain applications generated by Blockchain Workbench.With version 1.4.0, the Web client now fully supports screen...

AI + Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure CycleCloud, Compute, Events

Published April 9, 2018 • 3 min read

From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending NAB Show 2018 — Welcome!

By Tad Brockway Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure for Operators

...by editors in Hollywood. Bollywood. Or a beach house in Malibu. Increasing content resolution levels from 4K to 8K means increased production and post-production data stor...

Announcements, Batch, Compute

Published May 10, 2017 • 3 min read

Massive-scale cloud rendering with Autodesk on Azure

By Corey Sanders Corporate Vice President, Azure

...of technologies like 4k and 8k on the horizon, even small projects can take anywhere f...

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ISC 2023: Experience the power of HPC in the cloud with Microsoft Azure

Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service

Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available

From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending IBC Show 2018 – Welkom in Amsterdam!

General Availability: Larger Block Blobs in Azure Storage

Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage—now in preview

Six things to consider when using Video Indexer at scale

Accessibility and array support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.4.0

From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending NAB Show 2018 — Welcome!

Massive-scale cloud rendering with Autodesk on Azure

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