Supercomputing 2020—New MPI heights, joining the Graph500, and 1 TB/s filesystems
It was this time a year ago during SC’19 when Azure unveiled the HBv2 clusters of Virtual Machines (VM) for high performance computing (HPC).
Announcements
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Azure high-performance computing at Supercomputing 2020
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. -
Meeting developer needs with powerful new features in Azure Cache for Redis
In May, we announced a groundbreaking partnership with Redis Labs to bring their Redis Enterprise software to Azure as a part of Azure Cache for Redis. -
New enhanced DNS features in Azure Firewall—now generally available
Custom DNS, DNS proxy, and FQDN filtering in network rules (for non-HTTP/S and non-MSSQL protocols) in Azure Firewall are now generally available. -
At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell
Microsoft Azure is a key enabler of the digital transformation journey of our customers today. -
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Unlocking the power of health data for better care
As healthcare providers have faced unprecedented workloads (individually and institutionally) around the world, the pandemic response continues to cause seismic shifts in how, where, and when care is provided. -
Introducing the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter
The Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC) is designed to support datacenter scale scenarios for humanitarian aid, disaster response, and other needs for high-intensity, secure cloud computing in challenging environments. -
Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis now in preview
Between waves of pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires, you don’t need cloud infrastructure adding to your list of worries this year. -
Optimize your Azure workloads with Azure Advisor Score
Modern engineering practices, like Agile and DevOps, are redirecting the ownership of security, operations, and cost management from centralized teams to workload owners—catalyzing innovations at a higher velocity than in traditional data centers. -
Enabling resilient DevOps practices with code to cloud automation
At Microsoft Ignite we announced new GitHub Actions for Azure, which we added to our growing catalogue of Azure and GitHub integrations, with more to come soon. -
New Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience
With the new Azure integration with Datadog, organizations can now fully map their legacy and cloud-based systems, monitoring real-time data during every phase of the cloud transition, and ensure that migrated applications meet performance targets. -
Accelerating genomics workflows and data analysis on Azure
Microsoft Genomics has released several open source projects on GitHub, including Cromwell on Azure, Genomics Notebooks and Bioconductor support for Azure.
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