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…

The future is on FHIR for SAS and Microsoft Azure

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Steve Kearney, PharmD, Global Medical Director, SAS. This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the…

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…