This week at the Microsoft Ingnite 2018 conference in Orlando FL, Microsoft invited customers and partners from all over the world. In one of the sessions about Azure Stack, Daniel Savage (Principal PM Manager at Microsoft) announced that Microsoft is working on GPU support for Azure Stack. Azure Stack GPU support will bring Azure n-series virtual machines to Azure Stack which then can be used for various scenarios. This was not publicly announced yet in the Azure Stack roadmap, which was last updated in February 2018 and will soon see a refresh.
Microsoft was not mentioning the exact timeline, but it looks like when can expect this in the near future.
For Azure Services on Azure Stack, Microsoft also announced that Microsoft is not only working on bringing Azure IoT Hub to Azure Stack (which was announced a while ago), but also bringing Event Hub down to Azure Stack. One of the main reasons for this is that IoT Hub has some dependencies on Azure Event Hub.
You can watch the full session on the Microsoft Ignite page.
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I do not mean to be bad or negative, but is there a real demand for Azure Stack as a whole? The pricing model where you have to commit big CAPEX just to build the environment and then be exposed to large OPEX seem to push back quite a fair amount of companies. Is there really a market for Azure Stack in Switzerland except for a few very large accounts willing to invest 7 figures CHF?
Absolutely, course it is not for everyone but there are interesting business cases which we are working on with several customers right now.
https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/06/microsoft-azure-stack-azure-extension-in-your-datacenter/
It really depends on what the company is trying to do.
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Hi Thomas,
Is this release now? do we have GPU support in azure stack?
Thanks
Anu