Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2023
Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when ... continue reading

Removing barriers to autonomous vehicle adoption with Microsoft Azure
Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving cars, have the potential to truly revolutionize the transportation industry, with its impact anticipated across many industries. Several stubborn obstacles, however, stand in the way of mass adoption. In the over 150 years since ... continue reading

Managing IP with Microsoft Azure and Cliosoft
This blog was co-authored by Fernando Aznar Cornejo, AMD Partner Development Manager; Nathaniel Lum, Senior Applications Engineer, Cliosoft; Amit Varde, Director – Solutions Engineering, Cliosoft. Intellectual Property (IP) is a critical asset for technology companies, encompassing a company's patents, trademarks, ... continue reading
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (March 2023)
Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are ... continue reading

Azure Managed Lustre—Parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads
Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Lustre, a new addition to the storage offerings in our Azure HPC + AI solution. Lustre is an open-source parallel file system renowned for high-performance computing (HPC) and is adept ... continue reading

Voltus and Azure—no power integrity challenge too big to solve
This post was co-authored by Giancarlo DiPasquale, Microsoft Director, Semiconductor & EDA; Rajat Chaudhry, Product Management Director, Cadence; and Adrian Lao, Senior Software Architect, Cadence. With the advent of AI and hyperscale designs on advanced nodes, it is common to ... continue reading

Do more with less using new Azure HX and HBv4 virtual machines for HPC
This post was co-authored by Jyothi Venkatesh, Senior Product Manager, Azure HPC and Fanny Ou, Technical Program Manager, Azure HPC. The next generation of purpose-built Azure HPC virtual machines Today, we are excited to announce two new virtual machines (VMs) ... continue reading

Wipro and Microsoft partner on services and accelerators for the new Microsoft Energy Data Services
This blog post was co-authored by Paul Dejager, OSDU Practice Lead, Wipro. Since its first customer-ready release, the OSDU™ Data Platform has been tested and piloted within the energy industry with great success. However, customers have been awaiting an enterprise-ready ... 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
Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate
Cloud adoption increased significantly during COVID-19 and continues for many companies. However, an enormous migration and modernization opportunity remains as organizations continue their digital transformation. In fact, 72 percent of organizations reported their industry’s pace of digital transformation accelerated because ... continue reading