Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure data centers to the project. It’s where Microsoft develops its Olympus servers and ...

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Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have formed a partnership that blends new investments with a large multiyear cloud commitment, tightening ties among three major players in artificial intelligence. The ...

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 Wednesday integrated extremely fast access storage with the most powerful virtual machines available on Azure to yield its public cloud's highest-performance instance type. A variant of the ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of a new computing instance family for Azure that is optimized for databases, Hadoop clusters and other analytics workloads. One of the ...

We’ve become used to sharing files between the cloud and our local PCs, so much that we often don’t think about where a file physically resides. It sounds like Microsoft wants us to start thinking ...

At its Inspire 2017 conference this week, Microsoft unveiled a slew of different enterprise-focused announcements, among which is the creation of Microsoft 365, a service which combines Windows 10, ...