Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year — compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure ...
Microsoft hopes to one day use mainly its own AI data center chips, according to CTO Kevin Scott. During a fireside chat at ...
Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Ramya Krishnamoorthy shares a detailed case ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about new technologies and usage models transforming business. Branded enterprise server manufacturers like Dell EMC will ...
Microsoft has fixed an issue with its Windows Azure Compute service that affected users worldwide, starting on Tuesday, and is working to completely resolve other affected cloud services. At 2:35 a.m.
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 ...
Microsoft Corporation today announced that it has acquired GreenButton, a successful New Zealand software start-up that specialises in high performance cloud computing. Financial terms of the deal ...
Microsoft has unveiled Fairwater, its largest AI datacenter in Wisconsin, built to power massive AI models with NVIDIA’s ...
Good news for businesses using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: their infrastructure bills may be shrinking come February. Microsoft announced that it will be permanently reducing the prices for its ...
When rumors of Google getting into the infrastructure-as-a-service business began percolating (largely thanks to Om Malik) last week, I started writing this post in my head. I knew if Google announced ...
Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP) and plans to share some of its Windows Azure datacenter designs as part of that effort. The announcement was delivered as ...