NVIDIA with Microsoft Announces Technology Collaboration for Era of Intelligent Edge

Author: Charles Gross | October 21, 2019 06:21pm
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSF) today announced a technology collaboration focused on intelligent edge computing, designed to help industries better manage and gain insights from the growing flood of data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure and other environments. By enabling closer integration between Microsoft Azure and the NVIDIA EGX platform, the companies are working together to advance edge-to-cloud AI computing capabilities, benefiting businesses worldwide. The NVIDIA Metropolis video analytics application framework, which runs on EGX, has been optimized to work with Microsoft's Azure IoT Edge, Azure Machine Learning solutions and a new form factor of the Azure Data Box Edge appliance powered by NVIDIA T4 GPUs. Additionally, NVIDIA-certified off-the-shelf servers — optimized to run Azure IoT Edge and ML services — are now available from more than a dozen leading OEMs, including Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo.

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