Azure offers Virtual Machines (VMs) with local NVMe drives that deliver a tremendous amount of performance. These local NVMe drives are ephemeral, so if the VM fails or is deallocated, the data on the ...

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Microsoft is improving the landscape of cloud computing with the introduction of Azure Boost. It is a new hardware upgrade from Microsoft, designed to elevate virtual machine performance on the Azure ...

Back when Microsoft first launched Azure’s virtual machines, there were only a handful of default server sizes you could use. The question you had to ask yourself then was a simple one: Is there a ...

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS AMD EPYC™7003 Series Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache deliver outstanding scale-out performance running Ansys® Fluent® on Microsoft® Azure® HBv3 virtual machines. This ...

A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium V2 still leads in consistency under heavy load. Suppose you are a technology professional ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...