News CableLabs Enlists Kubernetes in NFV Adoption Effort By David Ramel 07/31/2018 With network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) maturing, evolving and branching out into new industries, a new open source offering has emerged targeting the cable operator space with the help of Kubernetes. CableLabs added Kubernetes to its portfolio of open source […]
Archives for July 2018
Azure management groups now in general availability
I am very excited to announce today general availability of Azure management groups to all our customers. Management groups allow you to organize your subscriptions and apply governance controls, such as Azure Policy and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), to the management groups. All subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the controls applied to the […]
Big Switch Takes Cloud Networking Services On-Premises
News Big Switch Takes Cloud Networking Services On-Premises By David Ramel 07/30/2018 Big Switch Networks is taking “as-a-Service” virtual networking functionality available in public cloud platforms to on-premises implementations. The software-defined networking (SDN) specialist announced new sofware-centric, on-premises-flavored services as part of its new Cloud-First Networking (CFN) portfolio, which features three new in-cloud products designed […]
Azure.Source – Volume 42
Now in preview Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux – Support for Java SE 8-based applications on Linux in Azure App Service is now available in public preview. Now you can build and deploy Java web apps on a highly scalable, self-patching web hosting service where bug fixes and security updates will […]
Azure cloud business value for retail and consumer goods explained
For brick and mortar retailers, the world has been overturned. Online retailers have been demolishing their market share and icons of commerce are struggling. But what helped online retailers can help the offline. The cloud can also be used by brick and mortar retailers. In fact, the brick and mortar experience, transformed with cloud technology, […]
Azure Monitor: Route AAD Activity Logs using diagnostic settings
Today in partnership with the Azure Active Directory (AAD) team we are excited to announce the public preview of AAD Activity Logs using Azure Monitor diagnostic settings. Azure Monitor diagnostic settings enable you to stream log data from an Azure service to three destinations: an Azure storage account, an Event Hubs namespace, and/or a Log […]
How to upgrade your financial analysis capabilities with Azure
In corporate finance and investment banking, risk analysis is a crucial job. To assess risk, analysts review research, monitor economic and social conditions, stay informed of regulations, and create models for the investment climate. In short, the inputs into an analysis make for a highly complex and dynamic calculation, one that requires enormous computing power. […]
How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints
HDInsight enterprise customers work with some of the most sensitive data in the world. They want to be able to lock down access to this data at the networking layer as well. However, while service endpoints have been available in Azure data sources, HDInsight customers couldn’t leverage this additional layer of security for their big […]
Feeding IoT device telemetry data to Kafka-based applications
With the newly released support for Kafka streams in Event Hubs, it is now possible for Azure IoT Hub customers to easily feed their IoT device telemetry data into Kafka-based applications for further downstream processing or analysis. This gives customers with existing Kafka-based applications the added flexibility of faster adoption of Azure IoT Hub, without […]
4 ways wearables can benefit your workforce
Smart watches, smart glasses, and exoskeletons can augment workers’ abilities and increase productivity, according to a Deloitte report.