This year’s Microsoft Ignite brings america unneurotic to experience AI transformation successful action. AI is driving a caller question of innovation, rapidly changing what applications look like, however they’re designed and built, and however they’re delivered. At the aforesaid time, concern leaders proceed to look challenges, needing to juggle assorted priorities to offset rising costs, beryllium sustainable, and outmaneuver economical uncertainty. Today’s customers are looking for AI solutions that volition conscionable each their needs.

At Ignite, we’re announcing innovation successful Microsoft Azure that is powering much AI capabilities for our customers and helping enterprises with their unreality absorption and operations. We’re committed to bringing your AI ambitions to accumulation and gathering you wherever you are. Whether you take to physique hybrid, cloud-native, oregon unfastened root solutions, we’re rapidly expanding our infrastructure and adding intuitive tools for customers to assistance instrumentality your ideas to accumulation safely and responsibly successful this caller epoch of AI. 

With Azure, you tin spot that you are connected a unafraid and well-managed instauration to utilize the latest advancements successful AI and cloud-native services. Azure is adaptive and purpose-built for each your workloads, helping you seamlessly unify and negociate each your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions. 

Powering groundbreaking AI solutions

The epoch of AI has mostly been shaped by an exponential maturation successful the sophistication of ample connection models similar OpenAI’s GPT trained connected trillions of parameters and groundbreaking generative AI services similar Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot utilized by millions of radical globally. The enactment by Azure successful optimizing infrastructure for AI workloads successful the unreality is pioneering this innovation and wherefore customers similar OpenAI, Inflection, and Adept are choosing Azure to physique and tally AI solutions. 

In this caller epoch of AI, we are redefining unreality infrastructure, from silicon to systems, to hole for AI successful each business, successful each app, for everyone. At Ignite, we’re introducing our archetypal customized AI accelerator series, Azure Maia, designed to tally cloud-based grooming and inferencing for AI workloads specified arsenic OpenAI models, Bing, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT. Maia 100 is the archetypal procreation successful the series, with 105 cardinal transistors, making it 1 of the largest chips connected 5nm process technology. The innovations for Maia 100 span crossed the silicon, software, network, racks, and cooling capabilities. This equips the Azure AI infrastructure with end-to-end systems optimization tailored to conscionable the needs of groundbreaking AI specified arsenic GPT.

Alongside the Maia 100, we’re introducing our archetypal customized in-house cardinal processing portion series, Azure Cobalt, built connected Arm architecture for optimal show oregon watt efficiency, powering communal unreality workloads for the Microsoft Cloud. From in-house silicon to systems, Microsoft present optimizes and innovates astatine each furniture successful the infrastructure stack. Cobalt 100, the archetypal procreation successful the series, is simply a 64-bit 128-core spot that delivers up to 40 percent show betterment implicit existent generations of Azure Arm chips and is powering services specified arsenic Microsoft Teams and Azure SQL. 

Networking innovation runs crossed our first-generation Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips. From hollow halfway fibre exertion to the general availability of Azure Boost, we’re enabling faster networking and retention solutions successful the cloud. You tin present execute up to 12.5 GBs throughput, 650K input output operations per 2nd (IOPs) successful distant retention show to tally data-intensive workloads, and up to 200 GBs successful networking bandwidth for network-intensive workloads. 

We proceed to physique our AI infrastructure successful adjacent collaboration with silicon providers and manufacture leaders, incorporating the latest innovations successful software, power, models, and silicon. Azure works intimately with NVIDIA to supply NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core (GPU) graphics processing unit-based virtual machines (VMs) for mid to large-scale AI workloads, including Azure Confidential VMs. On apical of that, we are adding the latest NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU to our fleet adjacent twelvemonth to enactment larger exemplary inferencing with nary simplification successful latency. 

As we expand our concern with AMD, customers tin entree AI-optimized VMs powered by AMD’s caller MI300 accelerator aboriginal adjacent year. This demonstrates our committedness to adding optionality for customers successful price, performance, and powerfulness for each of their unsocial concern needs. 

These investments person allowed Azure to pioneer show for AI supercomputing successful the unreality and person consistently ranked america arsenic the fig 1 unreality successful the apical 500 of the world’s supercomputers. With these additions to the Azure infrastructure hardware portfolio, our level enables america to present the champion show and ratio crossed each workloads.

Being adaptive and purpose-built for your workloads

We’ve heard astir your challenges successful migrating workloads to the nationalist cloud, particularly for mission-critical workloads. We proceed to enactment with the exertion vendors you’ve relied connected to tally your workloads and guarantee Azure is supporting your needs specified arsenic SAP, VMware, NetApp, RedHat, Citrix, and Oracle. We’re excited astir our caller partnership to bring Oracle Database Services into Azure to assistance support your concern businesslike and resilient.  

At Ignite, we’re announcing the wide availability of Oracle Database@Azure successful the US East Azure portion arsenic of December 2023. Customers volition present person nonstop entree to Oracle database services moving connected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) deployed successful Azure information centers. The caller work volition present each the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Exadata Database Service connected OCI combined with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Azure. Microsoft is the lone different hyper scaler to connection OCI Database Services to simplify unreality migration, multicloud deployment, and management.

As we’ve observed done our interactions the durable authorities of the unreality is evolving to 1 wherever lawsuit workloads request to beryllium supported wherever they’re needed. We recognize that unreality migration is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and that’s wherefore we’re committed to gathering you wherever you are connected your unreality journey. An adaptive unreality enables you to thrive successful dynamic environments by unifying siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a azygous operations, application, and information exemplary successful Azure.  

Our imaginativeness for adaptive unreality builds connected the enactment we’ve already started done Azure Arc. With Azure Arc, customers tin task their on-premises, edge, and multicloud resources to Azure, deploy Azure autochthonal services connected those resources, and widen Azure services to the edge.  

We’re excited to marque immoderate caller announcements that volition assistance customers instrumentality their adaptive unreality strategies. For VMware customers, we’re announcing the wide availability of VMware vSphere enabled by Azure Arc. Azure Arc brings unneurotic Azure and the VMware vSphere infrastructure enabling VM administrators to empower their developers to usage Azure technologies with their existing server-based workloads and caller Kubernetes workloads each from Azure. Additionally, we’re delighted to stock the preview of Azure IoT Operations enabled by Azure Arc. By utilizing Azure IoT Operations, customers tin greatly trim the complexity and clip it takes to physique an end-to-end solution that empowers them to marque adjacent real-time decisions backed by AI-driven insights to tally agile, resilient, and sustainable operations with some Microsoft and spouse technologies.

Amplifying your interaction with AI-enhanced operations

Every day, unreality administrators and IT professionals are being asked to bash more. We consistently perceive from customers that they’re tasked with a wider scope of operations, collaborating and managing much users, supporting much analyzable needs to present connected expanding lawsuit request and integrating much workloads into their unreality environment. 

That’s wherefore we’re excited to present the nationalist preview of Microsoft Copilot for Azure, a caller solution built into Azure that helps simplify however you design, operate, oregon troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from unreality to edge. Learn however to use for access to Microsoft Copilot for Azure to spot however this caller AI companion tin assistance you make heavy insights instantly, observe caller unreality functionality, and bash analyzable tasks faster.

Enabling limitless innovation successful the epoch of AI

Delivering connected the committedness of precocious AI for our customers requires precocious computing infrastructure, services, and expertise—things that tin lone beryllium addressed with the standard and agility of the Microsoft Cloud. Our unsocial instrumentality and strategy designs assistance america and customers similar you conscionable the challenges of the ever-changing technological landscape. From expanding the lifecycle of our hardware and moving businesslike proviso concatenation operations to providing purpose-built infrastructure successful this caller epoch of AI, we tin guarantee we’re ever present to bring your ideas to beingness successful a harmless and liable way.

Learn much astir the benefits of Azure infrastructure capabilities astatine Ignite

Attend these sessions astatine Ignite to larn more: 

• Do much with Windows Server and SQL Server connected Azure
• Simplifying unreality operations with Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Unlock AI innovation with Azure AI infrastructure
   

Check retired these resources to assistance you get started:

• Learn much astir Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate and however they tin assistance you from migration to AI innovation.
• Check retired the caller and escaped Azure Migrate exertion and codification assessment diagnostic to prevention connected exertion migrations.
• Find retired however to instrumentality your AI ambitions from ideation to world with Azure. 
• Explore what’s adjacent astatine Ignite.

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