On April 6, Microsoft participated in the launch of Intel's 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, where Microsoft announced the upcoming preview of Azure Confidential Computing and general-purpose Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Today we are delivering on that promise and announcing the preview of Dv5-series and Ev5-series Azure...
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Sunday, 25 April 2021
Microsoft brings Azure supercomputing to UK Met Office
The UK Meteorological Office (Met Office) is working with Microsoft to deliver advanced supercomputing capabilities for weather and climate research, ensuring the continuation of the Met Office’s international leadership in this area.Supercomputing is fundamental to the Met Office’s weather and climate science and services. Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing-as-a-service will...
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Why wait? SaaS-delivered data management for the pace of change
It's incredible to think how much can change in a year. The past year has seen unprecedented digital transformation, with 90 percent of companies reporting cloud usage higher than planned over the past year, according to the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report. Into this new reality,...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Expanding our DR scenarios to new zonal capabilities with Azure Site Recovery
Azure provides high availability, disaster recovery, and backup solutions that can enable your applications to meet business availability requirements and recovery objectives. We continue to build upon our portfolio of resilient services by bringing zonal capabilities for improved business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Azure...
Saturday, 17 April 2021
The blueprint to securely solve the elusive zero-touch provisioning of IoT devices at scale
The 2020 IoT Signals Report reveals 95 percent of IoT projects fail at proof of concept (PoC), with a significant portion due to the inability to scale despite the existence of many claims touting zero-touch provisioning. Imagine the following winning alternative instead: an IoT solution builder receives a...
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey
For operators, many challenges can be involved in their journey to the cloud, some more complex than others. Here, it is important to note that when it comes to operators’ path to cloud migration, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Operators have unique needs for...
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Microsoft powers transformation at NVIDIA GTC—GPU technology conference
Customers around the world rely on Microsoft Azure to drive innovations related to our environment, public health, energy sustainability, weather modeling, economic growth, and more. Finding solutions to these important challenges requires huge amounts of focused computing power. Customers are increasingly finding the best way to access such...
Sunday, 11 April 2021
Scale cloud adoption with modular designs for enterprise-scale landing zones
In this blog post, we will walk you through Tailwind Traders' experience to run its workloads on Azure using Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure landing zones guidance.What are enterprise-scale landing zones?We followed Tailwind Traders and their cloud adoption journey, where we learned about the Cloud Adoption Framework and...
Saturday, 10 April 2021
Deepen the value chain for geospatial earth imagery on cloud using Azure Orbital
Azure Orbital, a managed ground station service, enables customers to communicate to, control their satellite, process data, and scale operations directly in Microsoft Azure. Since our Azure Orbital announcement, we have been rapidly building and deploying ground stations in our datacenters. We are currently deploying multiple satellite ground...
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Leverage enterprise-scale reference implementations for your cloud adoption
This blog will discuss the IT team at Tailwind Traders and how they leveraged enterprise-scale reference implementations for the cloud environment they are building.Enterprise-scale landing zone architecture provides a strategic design path and target technical state for your Azure environment, including enterprise enrollment, identity, network topology, resource organization,...