Microsoft and fal partner to expand video generation in Microsoft Foundry, helping developers bring creative ideas into enterprise applications.Video workloads do not all start with the same input or aim for the same result. A creative team might explore several interpretations of a written brief. A retailer might turn an approved product image into a…
Transformation begins at the line between an experiment that works and a capability the business depends on. Scaling intelligence requires production capabilities built for sustained business performance, with investments prioritized against financial thresholds, tied to measurable outcomes, instrumented for unit costs, and owned by accountable leaders. This approach manages cost, performance, governance, and reliability as…
Every Azure chip Microsoft has built started as electronic design automation (EDA) jobs used to design, test, and validate silicon before it is manufactured. This includes simulation sweeps that run for days, verification regressions that fan out across thousands of cores overnight, and physical signoff runs that use hundreds of gigabytes of memory for a…
Takeaway: Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) is Microsoft Azure’s end-to-end system aiming to catch hardware failures before they interrupt a workload, not after. Across the Azure fleet, AFPD has improved the prevention of hardware-related VM interruptions by 36%. SAP workloads offer a compelling example of AFPD’s value, illustrating why preventing interruptions matters for mission-critical…
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Organizations running regulated and security-sensitive workloads need trusted evidence of which authenticated users performed management operations on their hardware security modules (HSMs), what actions they took, and when. Today, we are announcing Hardware Audit Logging for Azure Cloud HSM, which collects audit records generated by the HSM itself for supported management operations. Security, compliance, and…