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Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a hardware-accelerated Azure cloud with its own custom AI silicon, Arm server processors, virtualization offload, and more. The history of modern software ...

Microsoft this week has open sourced the design specifications of servers and racks that make up its hyperscale Azure cloud data centers, contributing the information to the Open Compute Project (OCP) ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp. and the private preview of a new artificial intelligence-native ...

I attended Microsoft’s Ignite conference last week. Microsoft unveiled Azure Stack private cloud hardware stacks from Dell, Lenovo and HPE along alongside a software partnership with Docker. While ...

For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. But as we have discussed before here at The Next Platform, there ...