Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for every workload
This week at Microsoft Ignite, we announced several important additions to our Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) portfolio.
Virtual Machines
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Bing delivers its largest improvement in search experience using Azure GPUs
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. -
Azure high-performace computing at SC’19
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. -
Azure Backup support for SQL Server 2019 and restore as files
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. -
Faster and cheaper: SQL on Azure continues to outshine AWS
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. -
Announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. -
Announcing the general availability of Proximity Placement Groups
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. -
Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
We are taking a look at the preview of a maintenance control feature for platform updates on Azure Dedicated Host and Isolated virtual machines. -
Accelerate your cloud strategy with Skytap on Azure
Skytap on Azure allows businesses to innovate with the cloud faster, while minimizing impact to traditional applications running on IBM Power. -
Azure HBv2 Virtual Machines eclipse 80,000 cores for MPI HPC
HPC-optimized virtual machines now available. -
Azure GPUs with Riskfuel’s technology offer 20 million times faster valuation of derivatives
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. -
DCsv2-series VM now generally available from Azure confidential computing
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.
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