23.2 million potential attacks target 500 fake IoT-like devices deployed at Mobile World Congress. On Sunday 24th February, the eve of Mobile World Congress 2019, Avast security researchers Martin Hron, Vladislav Iliushin, Libor Bakajsa, and Anna Shirokova set a project in motion: the deployment of 500 honeypots in 10 countries around the world that would […]
Archives for April 2019
Does Hyperledger Fabric perform at scale?
Share this post: Yes. Yes it does! Quite often, clients ask us, “do channels scale?” Or, “I heard Hyperledger Fabric can only scale to N nodes, is this true?” They claim that they have read or heard information suggesting that Fabric and the channel model of privacy does not scale horizontally. When I ask where […]
Self-service exchange and refund for Azure Reservations
Azure Reservations provide flexibility to help meet your evolving needs. You can exchange a reservation for another reservation of the same type, and you can refund a reservation if you no longer need it. Exchange an existing reserved instance You start the exchange in the Azure portal with Azure Reservations. 1. Select the reservations that […]
Microsoft Azure portal April 2019 update
This month’s updates include improvements to IaaS, Azure Data Explorer, Security Center, Recovery Services, Role-Based Access Control, Support, and Intune. Sign in to the Azure portal now and see for yourself everything that’s new. Download the Azure mobile app to stay connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Here’s the list of April updates to […]
Azure Sphere Retail and Retail Evaluation feeds
Azure Sphere developers might have noticed that we now have two Azure Sphere OS feeds where once there was only one. The Azure Sphere Preview feed that delivered over-the-air OS updates has been replaced by feeds named Retail Azure Sphere OS and Retail Evaluation Azure Sphere OS. What’s the difference and what does it mean […]
IoT in Action: Enabling cloud transformation across industries
The intelligent cloud and intelligent edge go hand-in-hand, and together they are sparking massive transformation across industries. As computing gets more deeply embedded in the real world, powerful new opportunities arise to transform revenue, productivity, safety, customer experiences, and more. According to a white paper by Keystone Strategy, digital transformation leaders generate 8 percent more […]
Updates to geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease. By using these capabilities customers can quickly realize powerful applications […]
Updates to geospatial functions in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease. By using these capabilities customers can quickly realize powerful applications […]
GPS Week Number Rollover – Microsoft has you covered!
In the late 1990s, the time and date features of computer systems became a topic of high interest for every business, as programmers realized that a simple abbreviation of four digit years to only the last two digits had a fatal flaw – the rollover to the year 2000. But early preparation and remediation ensured […]
Three ways communication service providers could ignite the IoT
There is tremendous hype about the Internet of Things (IoT), how explosively it will grow and what a tremendous opportunity it represents for communications service providers (CSPs). But potential is a dangerous thing until it’s realised, says Ed Finegold, strategy director, Netcracker and the fact is that few service providers are yet reaping substantial revenue growth from […]