Microsoft Azure’s first Azure HPC + AI Day

By Dustin Ward

Welcome to our first Azure HPC + AI Day! We’re excited to host the first event, which will soon become an annual tradition. Join us on February 24 and 25 to hear directly from the Microsoft Azure team and earn points by attending sessions to get one of its kind Azure HPC + AI Day…

Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud

By Dustin Ward

Cloud computing and digital transformation have been powerful enablers for genomics. Genomics is expected to be an exabase-scale big data domain by 2025, posing data acquisition and storage challenges on par with other major generators of big data. Embracing digital transformation offers a practically limitless ability to meet the genomic science demands in both research…

Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Azure Payment HSM service

By Dustin Ward

This blog post has been co-authored by May Chen, Product Manager, Azure Security. The growing trend for running payment workloads in the cloud Momentum is building as financial institutions move some or all their payment applications to the cloud. This entails a migration from the legacy on-premises applications and hardware security modules (HSM) to a cloud-based…

The intersection of edge computing, telecommunications networks, and the cloud

By Dustin Ward

It’s been 12-plus years since we embarked on the paradigm-shifting edge computing story, which brings the cloud closer to the source of data generation and consumption. Nowadays, the cloud provides resource-rich compute and storage capabilities, remote management, and new applications and services as latency continues to be reduced. Edge computing has gone mainstream, as evidenced…

Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers

By Dustin Ward

We continue to innovate and add new capabilities to Azure Arc to enable new scenarios in hybrid and multicloud. We also want to provide our customers with the right guidance and best practices to adopt hybrid and multicloud technologies to meet their business needs. Today we’re launching the Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator within…