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Academic research

Microsoft Azure offers access to on-demand research scenarios with unlimited compute to help accelerate discovery

Academic Research is at the core of every institution.

All researchers need the same things – a cloud platform that is open, flexible, fast, cost-effective, scalable, efficient and responsive. And, in today’s challenging education environment, academic researchers also need solutions that work with what they’re used to so they can be up and running in no time, giving them a fast track to new breakthroughs.

At Microsoft, our goal is to let researchers be researchers. That means providing access to a unified and empowered research community, using today’s most powerful tools and resources.

Microsoft and partners offer solutions that can help you:

Analyse

  • Seize on big compute abilities
  • Pay only for what you use
  • Benefit from on-demand availability

Explore

  • Gain insight from analytics
  • Visualise with powerful BI tools
  • Integrate multiple data sources

Get integrated, real-time data views

  • Maximise collaborative research
  • Pool resources and combine expertise
  • Distribute your workloads efficiently

Give your academic research team the tools they need.

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  • An image of a congested four lane road with cars vans, the traffic is busy on both sides of the road

    Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Situation: With traffic exacting a high economic toll, Brazil needed a predictive solution that could mine terabytes of historical and real-time data to inform traffic planning.

    Solution: Microsoft Azure allows researchers to leverage scalability, immense storage, and big compute processing power, making data accessible to all users in real time and achieving 90% accuracy in predicting traffic.

  • An image of a crowd of students standing observing an incident of a flooded campus

    University of Texas

    Situation: Lack of predictive modelling and faulty waterway gauges put the public and first responders at risk during potential flooding.

    Solution: Microsoft Azure and Cortana Intelligence Suite is used to calculate flood predictions and enables researchers to collaborate in the cloud.

  • An image of a man in a science lab placing a liquid into test tubes

    Virginia Tech

    Situation: Sequencing the human genome can speed up discoveries and treatment for cancer and disease, but requires costly computing power that many researchers cannot afford.

    Solution: Microsoft Azure HDInsight Service and Virginia Tech’s SeqInCLoud gives researchers access to affordable tools in the cloud that simulate lab results in a fraction of the time.