Increase gaming performance with NGads V620-series virtual machines
Gaming customers across the world tend to look for the same critical components when choosing their playing environment: Performance, Affordability, and Timely Content. And for gaming in the cloud, there’s a fourth: Reliability. With these clear guidelines in mind, we are ... continue reading

ISC 2023: Experience the power of HPC in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
The ISC High-Performance Event (ISC), formerly known as International Supercomputing Conference, is one of the most important events in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry, bringing together some of the world's most prominent researchers, developers, vendors, and users to discuss the ... continue reading

The Net Zero journey: Why digital twins are a powerful ally
Azure Digital Twins leverages IoT for powerful modeling that can ease transition to greater sustainability. Climate impacts raise stakes for Net Zero transition Following weeks of vital discussions at COP27 in Egypt, the urgency to bring the world to a ... continue reading

Modernize your apps and accelerate business growth with AI
AI has exploded in popularity in recent years, to the point where it’s no longer considered a luxury in the business world, but a necessity. A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study revealed that the adoption of AI will fuel a 14 percent ... continue reading

Exploring open-source capabilities in Azure AI
This post was co-authored by Richard Tso, Director of Product Marketing, Azure AI Open-source technologies have had a profound impact on the world of AI and machine learning, enabling developers, data scientists, and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and build better ... continue reading

AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure
The progress of AI has been astounding with solutions pushing the envelope by augmenting human understanding, preferences, intent, and even spoken language. AI is improving our knowledge and understanding by helping us provide faster, more insightful solutions that fuel transformation ... continue reading

Hardware-based threat defense against increasingly complex cryptojackers
Even with the dip in the value of cryptocurrencies in the past few months, cryptojackers – trojanized coin miners that attackers distribute to use compromised devices’ computing power for their objectives – continue to be widespread. In the past several ... continue reading

Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed
This blog was written in collaboration with the DeepSpeed team, the Azure ML team, and the Azure HPC team at Microsoft. Large-scale transformer-based deep learning models trained on large amounts of data have shown great results in recent years in ... continue reading

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines
Real-world AI has revolutionized and changed how people live during the past decade, including media and entertainment, healthcare and life science, retail, automotive, finance service, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Speaking to a smart home device, browsing social media with ... continue reading
Accelerate graphics-heavy workloads using NVads A10 v5 Azure
Back in 2019 when Azure launched the first GPU-partitioned (GPU-P) virtual machine (VM) offerings in the public cloud, our customers loved it and asked for a similar offering on NVIDIA GPUs. Our customers wanted the flexibility to choose the GPU ... continue reading