Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

By Dustin Ward

Continuous cost optimization can take place at all stages of an Azure workload’s lifecycle, but your Azure subscription provides a very effective benefit to further optimize your investment when you are ready to deploy that workload. For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your…

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines

By Dustin Ward

Real-world AI has revolutionized and changed how people live during the past decade, including media and entertainment, healthcare and life science, retail, automotive, finance service, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Speaking to a smart home device, browsing social media with recommended content, or taking a ride with a self-driving vehicle is no longer in the…

Azure delivers strong MLPerf inferencing v2.0 results from 1 to 8 GPUs

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft Azure is committed to providing its customers with industry-leading real-world AI capabilities. In December 2021, Microsoft Azure debuted its leadership performance with the MLPerf training v1.1 results. Azure debuted at number one among cloud providers and number two overall at scale among all submitters. Azure’s supercomputer’s building blocks were used to generate the results in…

Increase remote storage performance with Azure Ebsv5 VMs—now generally available

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft Ignite in November 2021, we announced the memory-optimized Ev5 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C processor. The Ev5 VMs are designed for memory-intensive business-critical applications, relational database servers, and in-memory data analytics workloads. Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Ebsv5 VM series, a…