Azure Unveils NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Supercomputing Cluster for OpenAI

Microsoft Azure announced the NDv6 GB300 VM series, which the company said is the first supercomputing-scale production cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, built for OpenAI ….

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened’ Available on Public Cloud Marketplaces

RENO, Nev. – August 26, 2025 – CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced that Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (RLC-H) is now available on three major cloud marketplaces: AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform. This hardened Enterprise Linux offering enables organizations to deploy proactively secured, compliant systems while maintaining […]

Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 19, 2025 — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the availability of Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store that provides applications and services for use on Azure. Hitachi Vantara customers can now […]

Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security

Aug. 8, 2024 — Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a next step in their partnership to bring cloud, AI and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. The companies said this is an integrated suite of technology that will allow national security missions to operationalize Microsoft’s large language […]

Qumulo Announces Azure Native Qumulo Benchmark Results

SEATTLE – June 17, 2024 – At-scale data management company Qumulo announced what it said is the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storage solution, as demonstrated by the latest SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI_IMAGE Benchmark result. Qumulo’s Azure Native Qumulo (ANQ) achieved an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 0.84ms with a total customer cost of […]

Advancing AI with Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC

At GTC 2024, we spoke with John Lee, Microsoft Azure’s Principal Lead, AI Platforms & Infrastructure, about the incorporation of NVIDIA’S new Blackwell GPU architecture within Azure’s AI capabilities portfolio. John is not only a long-time HPC veteran, he’s also an AI and cloud computing…

Hitachi Vantara Announces Integrated Solution with Microsoft Azure that Transforms Hybrid Cloud Management

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2023 – Hitachi Vantara, an ifrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to launch Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI. The hybrid cloud solution is designed to  increase business agility and deliver enhanced cloud management across […]

NVIDIA Collaborates With Microsoft to Accelerate Enterprise-Ready Generative AI

NVIDIA today announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning to help enterprises accelerate their AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully supported in NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the software layer of NVIDIA’s AI platform.

NVIDIA Hopper GPUs Expand Reach as Demand for AI Grows

NVIDIA and key partners today announced the availability of new products and services featuring the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU — the powerful GPU for AI — to address rapidly growing demand for generative AI training and inference. 

Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies

Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring of factory production….