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 ...

Azure Boost VMs in preview can achieve up to 200 Gbps networking throughput, marking a significant improvement with a doubling in performance over other existing Azure VMs. This improvement in network ...

These new VMs from Microsoft continue to showcase the growth and demand of AMD EPYC processors in the cloud and will provide better price options, up to 20% better performance for general purpose and ...

Joey on SQL Server Microsoft Boosts Azure Disk Efficiency With 'Performance Plus' Tier A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium ...

During the recent Inspire 2023 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Boost to improve remote storage throughput and IOPS performance. Separating the hypervisor and host OS functions ...

Azure H200 v5 VMS are architected with Microsoft’s systems approach to “enhance efficiency and performance,” the company said, and include eight Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs.

Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD ...

These VMs use Nvidia's Tesla 100 graphic processing units (GPUs), and are designed for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning kinds of workloads. The NCv3 Azure VMs ...

Microsoft Azure virtual machines now have preview support for Arm-based processors. The new VMs should deliver better efficiency and price-performance than x86-based virtual machines.

Joey on SQL Server Microsoft Boosts Azure Disk Efficiency With 'Performance Plus' Tier 04/22/2025 Suppose you are a technology professional dealing with data-intensive workloads. In that case ...