Microsoft Azure’s first Azure HPC + AI Day

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Welcome to our first Azure HPC + AI Day! We’re excited to host the first event, which will soon become an annual tradition. Join us on February 24 and 25 to hear directly from the Microsoft Azure team and earn points by attending sessions to get one of...

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Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring with Project Flash

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Flash, as the project is internally known, is a collection of efforts across Azure Engineering, that aims to evolve Azure’s virtual machine (VM) availability monitoring ecosystem into a centralized, holistic, and intelligible solution customers can rely on to meet their specific observability needs. Today, we’re excited to announce...

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New investments to help you accelerate your Azure migration and modernization journey

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Last year many organizations turned to the cloud to survive disruptions caused by the pandemic. Businesses are now charting the course for their recovery and further accelerating their cloud momentum to drive faster app innovation, optimize infrastructure costs, and enhance security posture. In a recent survey, 90 percent...

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Improve your security defenses for ransomware attacks with Azure Firewall

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To ensure customers running on Azure are protected against ransomware attacks, Microsoft has invested heavily in Azure security and has provided customers with the security controls needed to protect their Azure cloud workloads.A comprehensive overview of best practices and recommendations can be found in the "Azure Defenses for...

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Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud

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Cloud computing and digital transformation have been powerful enablers for genomics. Genomics is expected to be an exabase-scale big data domain by 2025, posing data acquisition and storage challenges on par with other major generators of big data. Embracing digital transformation offers a practically limitless ability to meet...

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IoT adoption remains strong in the Asia-Pacific region as organizations broaden usage

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The Asia-Pacific region has long been a strong manufacturing base and the sector continues to be a strong adopter of the Internet of Things (IoT). But as the latest Microsoft IoT Signals report shows, IoT is now much more widely adopted across verticals, and across the globe, with...

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Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Azure Payment HSM service

The growing trend for running payment workloads in the cloudMomentum is building as financial institutions move some or all their payment applications to the cloud. This entails a migration from the legacy on-premises applications and hardware security modules (HSM) to a cloud-based infrastructure that is not generally under...

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New performance and logging capabilities in Azure Firewall

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Organizations are speeding up workload migration to Azure to take advantage of the growing set of innovative cloud services, scale, and economic benefits of the public cloud. Applications migration to the cloud consequently increases the network traffic throughput demand. This puts pressure on network elements and more specifically...

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