Microsoft recently announced a pair of new Azure virtual machine (VM) options designed to accommodate the intense compute demands of modern -- specifically, AI -- workloads. The new Azure ND H200 v5 ...

In April, Microsoft announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines. Today, August 29, officials said these Arm-based VMs on Azure would be generally available this week, starting ...

Azure Compute Fleet, a new service designed to simplify Azure provisioning, is also among the cloud infrastructure updates unveiled at Microsoft's Build 2024 event in Seattle. At its Build 2024 event ...

Interview In September, Microsoft will retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure. "It's not quite a Y2K moment," says Aviatrix CPO Chris McHenry, "but things will break."… Deploying applications ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the ...

Microsoft has expanded its confidential computing offering and now allows Azure cloud computing service customers to create hardware isolated virtual machines (aka confidential VMs) with Ephemeral OS ...

Hardware-backed confidential computing in Microsoft Azure now includes protected environments for VMs, containers, and GPUs, without the need to write specialized code. One of the biggest challenges ...

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Following a preview in April, Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. The ...