Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft customers rely on Azure to host mission-critical workloads and services. A substantial percentage use the traditional infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approach to deploying virtual machines, often orchestrated with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets or third-party tools. Customers rely on Azure to provide compute capacity on demand. However, in some situations, customers need more specific assurances: Business-critical…

4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

By Dustin Ward

Inspecting five million vehicle welds every day requires the ability to check a weld’s quality every 17 milliseconds—an impossible challenge for a human. This type of quality control task is just one of many where the combined technologies of computer vision and AI excel. Cameras, microphones, and a wide array of sophisticated sensors used in…