The recently released Windows 10 Fall Creators update has new features not only for regular users but for business and enterprise deployments as well. Microsoft has recently reported that their latest operating system update is active on more than 500 million “monthly active devices, and continues to gain momentum”. With Enterprise being a critical market segment interest for Microsoft, here are some … Read More
High Performance Big Data Azure Virtual Machines H-Series now available.
Microsoft Announced the availability of H-Series machines in the West US 2 region. These machines are specific to very complex and high performing task, which typically include: ✓ Computational Fluid Dynamics tasks run by engineers and scientists ✓ Automotive crash testing ✓ Genome and molecular research ✓ Seismic exploration ✓ Weather forecasting simulations These are certainly the fastest in … Read More
Microsoft Releases Insider Build of Windows Server
Just joining the Windows Insider Program, with Build 16237. Improvements to container and virtualization, and greater pass through of the underlying hardware to the VM. Support for non-volatile memory has been integrated, leading to the benefits of low-latency performance. Battery Passthrough to the VM. Enhancements to Container Networking. As covered by Peter Bright of Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/first-insider-build-of-windows-server-arrives-with-new-virtualization-features/ And the announcement on … Read More
Microsoft Anounces Large disks sizes for the Premium and Standard storage Tiers.
SSD Premium Disk storage is typically used for I/O intensive ops, providing low latency. The announcement, available at all regions covers two large disk sizes 2TB and 4TB. At the same time, the Input Output Operations per Second was increased to 7,500 along with bandwith to 250 MBps. Please follow the links to learn more About disks and VHDs for Azure Windows VMs documentation web … Read More