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 today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum ...

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 ...