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Azure Delivers Strong MLPerf Inference v6.1 Results with NVIDIA GB300 & GB200

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/16/2026 / 2 minutes of reading

By Mark Gitau and Azin Heidarshenas In the MLPerf Inference v6.1 round, Azure demonstrated strong Deepseek-R1 performance on GB300 NVL72 and GB200 NVL72 platforms. Azure submitted GB200 results at 18-node (1-rack) and 72-node (4-rack) scale, and GB300 results at 18 nodes (1 rack), marking our first rack-scale and cross-rack MLPerf Inference submissions. According to results published […]

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Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/02/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In large scale AI clusters storage is responsible for delivering training data fast enough to keep accelerators busy and completing checkpoint saves and recoveries quickly enough to avoid costly stalls. MLPerf Storage is an industry-standard benchmark developed by MLCommons that reproduces the I/O patterns of different stages of AI pipelines covering training, checkpointing, context cache

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Retirement of Microsoft HPC Pack

Azure / By / Published / Updated 08/25/2026 / 3 minutes of reading

Overview Microsoft HPC Pack is a Windows‑based high‑performance computing (HPC) scheduler that enables customers to deploy, manage, and operate HPC workloads in on‑premises and hybrid environments. Since its original release, HPC Pack has supported a range of Windows‑centric HPC scenarios, including job scheduling, workload orchestration, and integration with Windows Server–based technologies. Microsoft is announcing the

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Microsoft Agent 365 Security Deep Dive

Azure / By / Published / Updated 08/18/2026 / 12 minutes of reading

The AI agent has moved from pilot project to production faster than most security programs were built to handle. Every AI agent you deploy is now a security problem before it is a productivity win. This Microsoft Agent 365 security deep dive breaks down exactly how the platform observes, governs, and secures agents in your

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Setting Up Microsoft Intune Remote Help on Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure / By / Published / Updated 08/02/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Remote Help lets your helpdesk team screen-share, chat with, and (with the right permission) take elevated control of a user’s session — including AVD multi-session hosts where several users can be active on the same VM at once. This is a two-part walkthrough. Part 1 covers enabling Remote Help at the tenant level and doing

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What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness

Azure / By / Published / Updated 07/27/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In this article Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences. Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these technologies perform in production and where we should continue investing. I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2026 PeerSpot Customer Choice / Tech

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Automating the Disconnected Session Time Limit Policy with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph

Azure / By / Published / Updated 07/24/2026 / 4 minutes of reading

Reclaiming host pool capacity from disconnected sessions is one of those AVD hygiene tasks that’s easy to configure once by hand in Intune, and easy to forget to replicate consistently across every host pool, tenant, or DTAP environment you manage. If you’re standing up host pools programmatically — or you just want this baked into

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AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD

Azure / By / Published / Updated 07/23/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations. To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the next generation of telecom-focused AI designed to bring deeper telecommunications expertise into AI

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Five Years, Five Awards: My Journey as a Microsoft MVP in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365

Azure / By / Published / Updated 07/18/2026 / 2 minutes of reading

On July 15th, 2026, I received my 5th Microsoft MVP award — and once again, it’s a dual award, recognizing my contributions in both Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. This one feels different. Not because the process changed, but because of what it represents: five consecutive years of being recognized in Azure Virtual

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Azure Databricks delivers proven business value

Azure / By / Published / Updated 07/15/2026 / 4 minutes of reading

Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivered as a native Azure service, so it fits naturally into the Microsoft tools, identity, and governance your organization already

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