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Azure hardware innovations and the serverless cloud future [Video]

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Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual presentation on Azure hardware revealed a lot about the future of Microsoft’s cloud.

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Microsoft uses its events to lift the hood on Azure’s hardware and the infrastructure it uses to manage and run its services. Ignite 2024 was no different. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s regular Inside Azure Innovations presentation went into some detail about how Microsoft is working to make its data centers more efficient.

Data center efficiency is becoming critically important, as hyperscalers like Azure are now a significant part of the load on the network, especially with the power requirements of large generative AI models such as ChatGPT. Much of that load is part of the cost of training AIs, but inference has its own costs. Microsoft has made ambitious climate goals, and increasing data center efficiency is key to meeting them.

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