Azure IaaS: Deploy high-performance workloads with a system-level approach

By Dustin Ward

In this article Rethinking performance in the cloud Accelerating AI workloads with system-level performance Scaling cloud-native applications without sacrificing performance Sustaining performance for business-critical systems Performance as a coordinated system Practical guidance: Optimizing for your workload Build on a foundation designed for performance This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure…

Azure IaaS: Defense in depth built on secure-by-design principles

By Dustin Ward

In this article Defense in depth as a system Secure by design: Engineering security into the platform Hardware and host-level trust Virtual machine-layer trust Secure by default: Protection enabled without friction Secure defaults across networking Encryption and data protection by default Compute protection defaults Secure in operation: Continuous protection at runtime Monitoring, detection, and signal…