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 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.

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Microsoft's cloud backlog surged to $625B, with OpenAI driving nearly half the demand, fueling investor concerns over ...

The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure's AI inference accelerator Maia 200 aims to outperform Google TPU v7 and AWS Inferentia with 10 Petaflops of FP4 compute power.