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Azure delivers strong MLPerf inferencing v2.0 results from 1 to 8 GPUs

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Microsoft Azure is committed to providing its customers with industry-leading real-world AI capabilities. In December 2021, Microsoft Azure debuted its leadership performance with the MLPerf training v1.1 results. Azure debuted at number one among cloud providers and number two overall at scale among all submitters. Azure’s supercomputer’s building blocks were used to generate the results in […]

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The future is on FHIR for SAS and Microsoft Azure

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This blog has been co-authored by Steve Kearney, PharmD, Global Medical Director, SAS. This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the […]

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Increase remote storage performance with Azure Ebsv5 VMs—now generally available

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At Microsoft Ignite in November 2021, we announced the memory-optimized Ev5 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C processor. The Ev5 VMs are designed for memory-intensive business-critical applications, relational database servers, and in-memory data analytics workloads. Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Ebsv5 VM series, a […]

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Empowering space development off the planet with Azure

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Any developer can be a space developer with Azure. Microsoft has a long history of empowering the software development community. We have the world’s most comprehensive developer tools and platforms from Github to Visual Studio, and we support a wide range of industries and use cases from healthcare, financial services, critical industries, and now space. […]

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Now in preview: Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors

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Up to 50 percent better price-performance than comparable x86-based virtual machines (VMs) for scale-out workloads. The demand for compute capacity to sustain business modernization and digital transformation initiatives continues to grow. Organizations are facing a complex set of challenges as they deploy a broad range of workloads globally, from the edge to the cloud. There […]