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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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Agentic Migrations and Modernization: How the Azure Migrate Agent Keeps Your Intent Alive End to End

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you have ever tried to move a few hundred VMs, a pile of databases, and a couple of web apps from on-prem to Azure, you already know the hard part is not the tooling. The hard part is keeping context, intent, and momentum alive across weeks of planning, hand-offs, and decisions. In

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Design the Network Before You Deploy: Best Practices for Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents BYOVNet

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 07/22/2026 / 16 minutes of reading

Ask any enterprise team standing up Microsoft Foundry in production and you’ll hear the same non-negotiable: the agent can’t run on the open internet. The moment it touches proprietary data, internal APIs, or regulated workloads, security wants it inside the company’s own virtual network — behind private endpoints, a central firewall, and controlled DNS. That

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Network Security Perimeter for Azure Event Hubs: Hardening Your Data Streams

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

What is Network Security Perimeter for Azure Event Hubs? Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP), a logical network isolation boundary that lets you define a security perimeter around your PaaS resources and control public network access through perimeter-based access rules. In practical terms, this means you can now group Event Hubs resources

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SQL Server 2016 Reaches End of Support: A Customer Engineer’s Perspective on What’s Next

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/17/2026 / 4 minutes of reading

Why This Day Matters July 14, 2026 marks the end of Extended Support for SQL Server 2016. After today, organizations running SQL Server 2016 will no longer receive security updates, non-security hotfixes, or product support unless they have a specific support strategy in place. As a Customer Engineer, I’ve spent years helping customers navigate technology

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Azure IaaS: How to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency

Azure / By / Published / Updated 06/30/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In this article This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency. As organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate mission-critical workloads, build cloud-native applications, and scale AI—cost efficiency

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Generic Best Practices for HikariCP with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 06/26/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

Author: Mohamed BaioumyTechnology: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Flexible Server & Single Server)Category: Connectivity | Performance | Application Design Introduction Connection pooling is a critical component of application performance when connecting to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Creating a new PostgreSQL connection is an expensive operation that consumes CPU, memory, and networking resources. Reusing existing connections through

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Windows Server Summit 2026

Administration / By / Published / Updated 05/28/2026 / 4 minutes of reading

Laps for Azure Arc Hear from Windows Server product leaders on recent innovations and updates in Windows Server 2025, hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios enabled by Azure Arc, and best practices and real‑world considerations to help you run a more secure, resilient, and modern cloud-to-edge infrastructure Innovation of Windows Server Hyper-V Windows Server & Hyper‑V: Key

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PowerShell PSResource Roadmap and Best Practices

PowerShell / By / Published / Updated 05/20/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

PowerShell is a critical automation and configuration platform across enterprises—and as that automation grows, how you source, validate, and distribute PowerShell packages becomes just as important as the scripts themselves. Modern security guidance increasingly treats package feeds as part of the software supply chain. For PowerShell, that means being deliberate about which repositories you trust,

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