Abstract: Large-scale datacenter networks are increasingly using in-network aggregation (INA) and remote direct memory access (RDMA) techniques to accelerate deep neural network (DNN) training.

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

A .NET 10 solution that analyzes Excel-based Azure reliability assessments, identifies remediation gaps (missing zone redundancy, HA, backup, site recovery), estimates remediation costs using the ...

Abstract: Federated learning is useful when predicting user preferences due to its ability to keep user data private. As such, certain data samples may be more useful than others. For instance, with a ...