On February 7, 2018 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer […]
Archives for February 2019
Cradlepoint’s Elastic Edge provides blueprint for secure, scalable and costeffective 4G and 5G networks for IoT
George Mulhern is CEO and chairman of the board at Cradlepoint, a provider of cloud-delivered LTE network solutions for business, service providers and government organisations that was established in 2006. More than 25,000 customers worldwide in retail, financial services, healthcare, transportation, public sector and other industries, rely on Cradlepoint to keep their branch and mobile […]
Monitor at scale in Azure Monitor with multi-resource metric alerts
Our customers rely on Azure to run large scale applications and services critical to their business. To run services at scale, you need to setup alerts to proactively detect, notify, and remediate issues before it affects your customers. However, configuring alerts can be hard when you have a complex, dynamic environment with lots of moving […]
Protect Azure Virtual Machines using storage spaces direct with Azure Site Recovery
Storage spaces direct (S2D) lets you host a guest cluster on Microsoft Azure which is especially useful in scenarios where virtual machines (VMs) are hosting a critical application like SQL, Scale out file server, or SAP ASCS. You can learn more about clustering by reading the article, “Deploying laaS VM Guest Clusters in Microsoft Azure.” […]
IoT spaceship, the 5G
There is little doubt that 5G will have profound impact on the course of human civilization. Mobile subscribers would benefit from 5G in different ways which can be summarized as better user experiences. However, the greater impact is on Machines, to make the world highly connected and ultra-smart. The foundation for such transformation will be […]
How technology is highlighting the role of inflammation in depression and MS
At the 2019 MIT Space2 workshop, TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox spoke with Adam Kaplin, MD, Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine about how depression is a common occurrence in multiple sclerosis patients, but an online app is helping patients better relay data about their mood to their physicians. The following is an […]
IBM Watson IoT wants to improve field worker safety with wearables, but could it backfire?
On Wednesday, IBM announced collaborations with Garmin Health, Mitsufuji and SmartCone as part of a push for the company’s Watson IoT platform to be used to increase worker safety for those in hazardous environments like construction sites, mines, and factories. IBM envisions wearable technologies capable of monitoring biometric attributes (including heart rate and body temperature), […]
How VR can improve life on a spacecraft
At the 2019 MIT Space2 workshop, TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox spoke with former astronaut Jay Buckey about his thoughts on how viewing nature scenes through virtual reality can improve life in a confined space such as on a spacecraft. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Teena Maddox: Tell me a little […]
Internet of Things Market Overview
2019 Trends in Internet of Things – part 2 Given the staggering number of technology innovations that have been introduced recently, it is difficult to say which one claims the top spot as the most disruptive. Smartphones completely changed the perception of where computing could take place. Cloud systems created a new mindset around how […]
Here’s How Big Data Analytics Has Changed the eCommerce Industry
Data is everywhere. We gather and share countless data every moment, in fact, even our actions are generating data right now. Things that we used to see in sci-fi movies have now become real. With us being surrounded by so much data, managing them has become very challenging, but then big data is here! IoT, […]