Join us at NAFEMS World Congress to learn more about Azure HPC and AI Supercomputing

By Dustin Ward

Design and deployment of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure is often constrained by physical resources, internal know-how, and policies. That can be a challenge in the current era of new hardware architectures, programming paradigms, and constantly changing simulation software. The cloud gives rise to a new paradigm for running industrial simulations. Today, the most demanding and…

The wait (list) is over: Azure NetApp Files is enterprise-ready in your Azure portal

By Dustin Ward

Four years ago we imagined what many said would be impossible: build a fully-managed, on-premises-like storage infrastructure service for the most demanding mission-critical workloads in Azure and make it available on-demand, anywhere in the world. We would need speed, security, and scalability. We would need to pass the most stringent certifications and compliance criteria. And…

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – September 2021

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always…

Improve availability with zone-redundant storage for Azure Disk Storage

By Dustin Ward

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Azure Disk Storage provides maximum resiliency for all workloads with an industry-leading zero percent annual failure rate and single-instance service-level agreements (SLA) for all disk types, including a best-in-class single-instance SLA of…

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – August 2021

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always…

Modernize large-scale NFS workloads and eliminate data silos with Azure Blob Storage

By Dustin Ward

Azure Blob Storage, our object storage platform for storing large-scale data helps customers run their applications using a wide range of protocols. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos. Today, we are announcing that Network File System (NFS) 3.0 protocol…