Azure NetApp Files: Revolutionizing silicon design for high-performance computing

By Dustin Ward

High-performance computing (HPC) workloads place significant demands on cloud infrastructure, requiring robust and scalable resources to handle complex and intensive computational tasks. These workloads often necessitate high levels of parallel processing power, typically provided by clusters of central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU)-based virtual machines. Additionally, HPC applications demand substantial data storage…

Azure Storage—A look back and a look forward

By Dustin Ward

Last January, we shared our reflection of 2023 and outlook for 2024—and what a year it has been! Microsoft has been at the forefront of groundbreaking AI solutions, empowering end customers, developers and IT Professionals in the cloud while accelerating enterprise migrations to Azure. Azure Storage has evolved to bolster the evolution of Microsoft AI…

New Azure Data Box capabilities to accelerate your offline data migration

By Dustin Ward

Azure Data Box offline data transfer solution allows you send petabytes of data into Azure Storage in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. The secure data transfer is accelerated by hardware transfer devices that enable offline data ingestion to Azure. We’re excited to announce several new service capabilities including: General availability of self-encrypted drives Azure…