Abstract: The Linux kernel offers nearly 20,000 configuration options, making it highly customizable but also extremely challenging to manually optimize for performance. The diversity of operating ...

Discover practical gaming performance tips to increase FPS without new hardware. Learn simple tweaks, settings, and optimizations to enjoy smoother, more responsive gameplay on any PC. Pixabay, ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of Azure virtual machines (VMs) built on AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC processors, designed for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The newly introduced Da/Ea/Fasv7 ...

Log Replay Service (LRS) has been used for migrations to Azure SQL Managed Instance since the service launched in November of 2018. Under the hood, LRS relies on the implementation of log shipping, ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

Modern Windows PCs slowly lose speed as apps pile up, updates stack in the background, and settings remain untouched for years. Even newer systems can feel sluggish when startup tasks, temporary files ...

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It's that time of year again! If you want to ace your performance review, here are four tips you should follow. It’s that time again! That moment of dread. But don’t worry. Before you hyperventilate ...

Microsoft was hit with an outage affecting its Azure and 365 services hours before the company was scheduled to report quarterly results. "We are investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where ...

The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure’s downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes. Microsoft's problems ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...