Azure Load Balancer’s global tier is a cloud-native global network load balancing solution. With cross-region Load Balancer, customers can distribute traffic across multiple Azure regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. To better understand the use case of Azure’s cross-regionRead More

In April, I published a blog that explained how we define and measure energy and water use at our datacenters, and how we are committed to continuous improvements. Now, in the lead up to COP27, the global climate conference toRead More

We are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Payment HSM, a BareMetal Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that enables customers to have native access to payment HSM in the Azure cloud. With Azure Payment HSM, customers canRead More

Gartner® recently published its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) report. For the ninth consecutive year, Microsoft was named a Leader, and for the first time placed furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. For years,Read More

This post was co-authored by Sacha Abinader, Managing Director, Accenture and Keith Armstron, Senior Manager, Accenture Microsoft Business Group. Accelerate decision-making and interoperability with the OSDU Data Platform The OSDU™ Forum is a cross-industry collaboration to develop a common, standards-based,Read More

Businesses today are building and running cloud-based applications to drive their business forward. As these applications are built they need to take full advantage of the agility, efficiency, and speed of cloud innovation. However, not all applications and infrastructure theyRead More

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 toRead More

Are you looking to improve the analysis and management of images and videos? The Computer Vision API provides access to advanced algorithms for processing media and returning information. By uploading a media asset or specifying a media asset’s URL, Azure’sRead More

Enterprises and hobbyists alike have been using Azure Computer Vision’s Image Analysis API to garner various insights from their images. These insights help power scenarios such as digital asset management, search engine optimization (SEO), image content moderation, and alt text forRead More

This post was co-authored by Hugo Affaticati, Technical Program Manager, Microsoft Azure HPC + AI, and Jon Shelley, Principal TPM Manager, Microsoft Azure HPC + AI. Natural language processing (NLP), automated speech recognition (ASR), and text-to-speech (TTS) applications are becomingRead More