Microsoft developed Azure Boost, an in-house hardware appliance with physical networking infrastructure and software designed to optimize the resources used by applications. It is installed on-premises and managed remotely by the customer.

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Microsoft developed Azure Boost, an in-house hardware appliance with physical networking infrastructure and software designed to optimize the resources used by applications. It is installed on-premises and managed remotely by the customer.

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This system combats the increasing complexity of data center workloads by transferring the execution of server virtualization processes by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware. This offloading frees the CPU’s resources for guest virtual machines (VMs), enhancing performance and security for cloud workloads.

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