Microsoft and NVIDIA
Microsoft Ignite 2023, the annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held recently. The event saw over 100 announcements related to Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure that will impact businesses. One of the major announcements made by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was the collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA to bring new production AI capabilities to Microsoft Azure.
NVIDIA and Microsoft Azure have come together to support the demands of organizations by bringing state-of-the-art AI infrastructure and software to companies tackling challenging workloads. The collaboration is aimed at enabling enterprises with instant access to AI supercomputing. This will help organizations streamline operations, improve customer offerings, and create new business opportunities.
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, NVIDIA showcased its AI solutions portfolio with Microsoft Azure. NVIDIA DGX Cloud, available on Microsoft Azure, allows enterprises to train models for generative AI and fuel other advanced applications. NVIDIA GPU-accelerated virtual machines on Azure, such as the recently announced ND H100 v5-series powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, enable an order-of-magnitude leap in performance and scalability to power the most challenging AI training and inference workloads.
NVIDIA recently announced that Microsoft Azure will host NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud, a platform as a service that gives businesses instant access to a full-stack environment to design, deploy and manage their digitalized operations. This will accelerate the digitalization of enterprise industrial operations, such as building virtual factories or validating autonomous vehicles.
The collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA is aimed at bringing state-of-the-art AI infrastructure and software to companies tackling challenging workloads. The collaboration will help organizations streamline operations, improve customer offerings, and create new business opportunities
