Rani Borkar posts

President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure

Rani Borkar is the President for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure. In her role, Borkar leads the core organizations responsible for planning, architecting, developing, and deploying hardware and infrastructure for Microsoft’s leading cloud computing platform—from silicon, to systems, to supply chain.

January 5

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Microsoft’s strategic AI datacenter planning enables seamless, large-scale NVIDIA Rubin deployments

CES 2026 showcases the arrival of the NVIDIA Rubin Platform, along with Azure’s proven readiness for deployment.
October 13, 2025

7 min read

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

Microsoft is contributing new standards across power, cooling, sustainability, security, networking, and fleet resiliency to advance innovation.
October 9, 2025

3 min read

Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads

Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network.
September 23, 2025

4 min read

How Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are powering real-world solutions, delivering performance and efficiency results

Cobalt 100 systems are designed to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for a wide range of workloads.
October 16, 2024

8 min read

Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available

We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines (VMs).
October 15, 2024

5 min read

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

Microsoft drives innovation and contributes to the broader AI and datacenter community, benefitting the entire industry.
April 3, 2024

3 min read

Azure Maia for the era of AI: From silicon to software to systems

Fueling groundbreaking innovations, Azure AI infrastructure comprises of technology from NVIDIA, AMD, and our own AI accelerator, as we announced last November.
March 18, 2024

6 min read

Microsoft and NVIDIA partnership continues to deliver on the promise of AI

At NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA are announcing new offerings across a breadth of solution areas from leading AI infrastructure to new platform integrations, and industry breakthroughs.
October 17, 2023

4 min read

Fostering AI infrastructure advancements through standardization

At this year’s OCP Global Summit, Microsoft will share our latest contributions to supercomputing architecture and hardware intended to support the new era through standardization and innovation.
October 18, 2022

5 min read

Delivering consistency and transparency for cloud hardware security

Microsoft has made a number of contributions to and collaborated with various members of the Open Compute Project (OCP) community, the leading industry group dedicated to open source hardware innovation.
March 30, 2022

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Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud

Here at Microsoft, we’ve empowered our long-standing partners in the semiconductor industry to embrace Azure’s cloud infrastructure and scale out electronic design automation (EDA).
March 15, 2022

5 min read

Learn how Microsoft Circular Centers are scaling cloud supply chain sustainability

To deliver the most sustainable, scalable, and reliable cloud for Azure customers, continued innovation in cloud hardware is a constant priority for Microsoft.