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A Shared Cloud Vision

Cloud-to-edge solutions harnessing the power of Intel® technologies and Microsoft Azure.

Why Intel?

Performance per Cost

Intel and Azure work together to deploy the latest technologies, toolkits, and optimizations to help ensure that cloud infrastructure runs with exceptional efficiency. Customers benefit from fast time to results and low costs to rent high-performance virtual machines.

Security for Multitenancy

Securing business data is a top priority for Azure, which delivers services to customers all over the world. Intel helps create environments safe from cyber threats with hardware-enabled features that provide a root of trust and support confidential computing.

Access the Latest Technologies

Businesses, regardless of size, can use tight operating budgets to access a wide variety of Azure virtual machines enabled by high-end SKUs. This means access to the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor platforms and other Intel® technologies, without a huge capital investment.

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Microsoft Ignite October 12-14, 2022

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Past Events:

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Microsoft Inspire July 19-20, 2022

Intel and Microsoft are working together to help partners create feature-rich, scalable, and easy-to-deploy solutions to bring forward cloud transformation.

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Intel and Microsoft are working together to help make it easier for developers to create solutions from the Edge to the Cloud.

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Featured Topics

Preserving Analytics with Intel® SGX
Advancing Supply Chain Connectivity
Lufthansa Technik Migrates to Azure Cloud

Optimized Workloads for All

Purpose-built architecture and software optimizations help you match Intel-enabled Azure VMs to your specific workload requirements.

SAP on Azure

High memory capacity and scalability on Intel-enabled SAP HANA instances help power up your data-driven decision-making.

Discover SAP HANA on Azure

Azure Confidential Computing

Intel® SGX helps secure data at rest, in transit, and in use while on Microsoft Azure DCsv2 virtual machines.

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AI on Azure

Intel® CPUs, FPGAs, and software such as the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit help optimize and simplify AI training.

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Performance for Every Workload

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Analytics Workloads

Ansys Mechanical on Azure Instances

3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors provide significant performance gains for Ansys Mechanical workloads.

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Ansys LS-DYNA on Azure Instances

Customers running the LS-DYNA workload can realize significant performance gains by deploying Intel technology.

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Enhance Databricks Workloads with Azure VMs

Reduce your database query time with Databricks Photon Engine featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Faster and Cheaper Databricks Queries on Azure

These VMs Delivered Stronger Decision Support Performance than Storage-Optimized L8s_v2 VMs Featuring AMD EPYC™ processors.

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Get Databricks Query Answers 31% Faster on Azure

With photon vectorized query engine, these VMs delivered stronger decision support workload performance than Easv4 VMs.

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Reduce Databricks Query Time and Save on Azure

VMs with photo vectorized query engine enabled, delivered stronger decision support workload performance over older VMs.

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Reduce Databrick Query Time on Azure up to 65%

Enable photon to get the best out of the latest Intel processors for data analytics and AI workloads.

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Better Performance and Container Scaling on Splunk

Bare-metal clusters with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors improve Splunk indexing, searching, and container scaling.

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Harness Real-Time Insights from SAP HANA

Improve innovation from SAP HANA with Microsoft Azure VMs, Azure Large Instances, and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Meet SAP HANA Security and Compliance Needs

Run mission-critical SAP HANA database workloads in the cloud with security, compliance, and business continuity.

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Certified Cloud Infrastructure Tailored to SAP

Microsoft Azure VMs, Azure Large Instances, and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors provide a cloud infrastructure for SAP.

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Analyze More Data in Apache Spark Workloads

Speed machine learning workloads with Microsoft Azure Dds_v4 Series VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Database Workloads

MySQL on Azure Optimized via Intel® Technology

MySQL is an open-source relational database engines for running internet-scale web and mobile applications. Airbnb, Uber and Netflix all use MySQL.

SQL Server OLTP on Azure Standard VMs vs. Premium

These Azure VMs achieved more new orders per minute than SQL managed instance VMs with older processors.

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SQL Server OLTP on Azure Esv5 VMs vs. Esv4 VMs

VMs with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors handled more new orders per minute than VMs with previous-gen processors.

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MySQL on Azure 8vCPU Gen-Over-Gen

Azure Ddsv5 and Edsv5 VMs improved database performance over Ddsv4 and Edsv4 VMs with previous-generation processors.

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SQL Server OLTP on Azure Dsv5 VMs vs. Dsv4

VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors achieved more new orders per minute vs. VMs with previous-gen processors.

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MySQL on Azure 16vCPU Gen-Over-Gen

Boost database performance with Azure Ddsv5 and Edsv5 VMs compared to medium-sized VMs with previous-generation processors.

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Elasticsearch on Azure Ddsv5 vs. Previous Gen

Ddsv5 VMs speed up indexing over both Dsv3 and Ddsv4 VMs with previous-generation processors.

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Boost MariaDB Performance by 1.40x with Azure

Handle more transactions per minute with new Edsv5 VMs featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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MySQL Performs on Microsoft Azure Edv4 VMs

Handle more MySQL transactions, gain performance per dollar with Azure Edv4 VMs on 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Speed Database Analysis on Microsoft Azure

Cut Microsoft SQL Server database analysis times with Microsoft Azure Dds_v4 VMs on 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Microsoft Azure Dv4 VMs Outperform Dv3 VMs

New Azure Dv4 VMs with 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can do more MySQL work than older Azure Dv3 VMs.

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Support More Customers on Microsoft Azure Edsv4 VM

Improve Database Performance on New Eds4 VMs Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Handle More MySQL Transactions on Microsoft Azure

Boost Database Performance with New Dds_v5 VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Improve Microsoft SQL Service Times with Azure

Improve your Microsoft SQL Server query times with Microsoft Azure Eds_v4 Virtual Machines.

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Scale to Meet Microsoft SQL Demands with Azure

Save weeks of analytics query time in Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft Azure Eds_v4 virtual machines (VMs).

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Microsoft SQL Server Overview and Benefits

The latest Azure E96ds instance enabled by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can improve data warehousing performance.

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VDI Users Perform Office Tasks Faster with Azure

Enjoy Stronger Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) Performance with Ddsv4 VMs Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Handle up to 1.53x WordPress Users on Azure

Enjoy Stronger Performance with New Azure Ddsv5 VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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50 Percent More Website Traffic and Services Azure

Scale to handle up to 1.51x more Wordpress website traffic with the new Azure® Dds_v4-series virtual machines (VMs).

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Azure Ddsv4 VMs Achieve More on Java Workloads

Get a greater return on your Azure investment with Ddsv4 Virtual Machines Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Login VSI Testing on Azure Ddsv5 vs. Ddsv4 VMs

Perform Office Tasks 24% faster with 12% more users per VM on Azure Virtual Desktop by using the Azure Ddsv5 vs Ddsv4 VMs.

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Login VSI Testing on Azure Ddsv5 vs. Dadsv5 VMs

Speed up developer tasks up to 7% quicker on Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Ddsv5 vs. Dadsv5 VMs.

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Support 1.77x More Web Users on Kubernetes

Get more from your Azure VMs with Newer Es_v4 Series VMs Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Support 1.58x Web Users on Kubernetes with Azure

Get more from your Azure VMs with Newer Ds_v4 Series VMs Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Handle More Inference Work with Hugging Face

Enjoy Stronger Performance with New Ddsv5 VMs Featuring 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Make Inferences 8.40x Faster with Microsoft Azure

Improve ResNet50 inference performance with Azure Esv4 VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Get Real-Time Results 3.48x Faster with Azure

Improve wide & deep inference performance with Azure Esv4 VMs featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

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Virtual Machines in Azure

Intel® technologies and products support a full breadth of Azure workloads.

Target Workload Azure Instance Type Intel® Processor and Technology
General Purpose Azure Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv4, Ddsv5-Series 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C
Confidential Computing Azure DCsv3-Series 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C
High-Memory Applications Azure Ev5, Esv5, Edv5, Edsv5- Series 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C
Compute-Intensive, Gaming, AI Azure Fsv2-Series Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 Processor
HPC, Big Compute Azure HC-Series Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 Processor
SAP on Azure Azure Mv2-Series Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor
Bare Metal for SAP on Azure Azure HANA Large Instances S224*

2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 Processor

Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

AI Inferencing Azure PB-Series Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA
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Azure IoT on the Intelligent Edge

Generate more value and insights from your data at the edge. The joint Microsoft and Intel IoT portfolio includes industry-specific, market-ready solutions that help reduce complexity and help accelerate your edge deployments.

Discover joint IoT solutions from Intel and Microsoft ›

Download the market ready IoT solution booklet ›

Learn more about Intel AI on Azure ›

Read the cloud to edge AI use case ›

Empowering Hybrid Cloud

Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® FPGAs, Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drives, and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory provide an innovative portfolio of data center solutions to boost the Azure Stack family performance and capacity.

Azure Stack Edge

See what sets Azure apart and how Microsoft can facilitate cloud computing with an Intel® processor-based Azure-managed edge appliance.

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Azure Stack HCI

Get the flexibility, high availability, and performance you need to consolidate virtual apps that must remain on-premises with the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ technology.

Learn more about Azure Stack HCI on Intel® technology ›

Dive deeper on the technical use cases for Azure Stack HCI ›

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Explore hybrid cloud use cases for Azure Stack HCI ›

Download guide to datacenter modernization ›

Learn more about Azure Stack HCL ›

Azure Stack Hub

Deliver a consistent cloud platform by extending Azure services into your data center to confidently run applications on-premises with performance, scalability, and availability.

Learn more about Azure Stack Hub ›

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Achieve More with Azure and Intel

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Intel + Azure

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HPC on Azure

Accelerate time to results for your most compute-intensive problems.

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Products and Technology

Intel offers a range of products and technologies that help optimize performance per cost and time to results.

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Intel® Software Guard Extensions

Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

Intel® Optane™ DC SSD Series

Intel® FPGAs

Intel® Ethernet Technology

Intel® Silicon Photonics

Intel® Artificial Intelligence

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