Microsoft has announced general availability of its Azure OpenAI Service, an offering related to its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. That means more businesses can apply to use ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge, the edge computing platform that has been in works for more than a year. Out of the top 5 public cloud platforms – AWS, Azure ...

Cloud computing. Everyone is talking about it. But cloud computing takes many forms. You may wonder what each cloud option is for and how cloud offerings differ from each other. Even if you limit the ...

For big businesses, Microsoft has become the cloud-computing provider of choice. Many of these companies, however, still use Oracle databases to run core parts of their business. The two tech giants ...

In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by Gartner and Krystallize Technologies shows a noticeable gap between ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are two of the leading cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. In the past decade, both companies have created a broad range of flexible ...

Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud computing service will be adding a brand-new tool to its toolbox: Pasqal’s neutral-atom quantum processing system. When the French company’s system becomes available ...