Virtual Machines

Today marks the preview of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Azure Backup.

With the general availability of DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs), we are ushering in the beginning of a new level of data protection in Azure.

We recently collaborated with Riskfuel, a startup developing fast derivatives models based on AI, to measure the performance gained by running a Riskfuel-accelerated model on the Azure ND40rs_v2 Virtual Machine instance powered by NVIDIA GPUs against traditional CPU-driven methods.

HPC-optimized virtual machines now available.

Skytap on Azure allows businesses to innovate with the cloud faster, while minimizing impact to traditional applications running on IBM Power.

We are taking a look at the preview of a maintenance control feature for platform updates on Azure Dedicated Host and Isolated virtual machines. Using this feature customers can take control of host updates for a period of 35-days in a rolling window.

Earlier this year, we announced the preview of Azure proximity placement groups to enable customers to achieve co-location of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources with low network latency.

We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.

Over a million on-premises SQL Server databases have moved to Azure, representing a massive shift in where customers are collecting, storing, and analyzing their data.

As SQL Server 2019 continues to push the boundaries of availability, performance, and data intelligence, a centrally managed, enterprise-scale backup solution is imperative to ensure the protection of all that data.

HBv2 Virtual Machines for HPC, Azure’s most powerful yet, now in preview Azure HB v2-series Virtual Machines (VM) for high-performance computing (HPC) are now in preview in the South Central US region.

Over the last couple of years, deep learning has become widely adopted across the Bing search stack and powers a vast number of intelligent features.