Cloud optimization is critical to ensuring you get the most out of your Azure investment, especially in complex environments with many Azure subscriptions and resource groups. Azure Advisor helps you optimize your Azure resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost by providing free, personalized recommendations based on your Azure usage and configurations. In addition […]
Archives for April 2019
Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1
This is the first blog in a three-part blog post series on best practices for migrating SAP to Azure. Designing a great SAP on Azure architecture In this blog post we will touch upon the principles outlined in “Pillars of a great Azure architecture” as they pertain to building your SAP on Azure architecture in […]
Migrating SAP applications to Azure: Introduction and our partnership with SAP
Just over 25 years ago, Bill Gates and Hasso Plattner met to form an alliance between Microsoft and SAP that has become one of our industry’s longest lasting alliances. At the time their conversation was focused on how Windows could be the leading operating system for SAP’s SAPGUI desktop client and when released a few […]
AI and the Death of Democracy
Awesome, not awesome.#Awesome“According to the American Cancer Society, more than 229,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States this year, with adenocarcinoma being the most common type. To help with diagnosis, researchers from Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Hassanpour Lab at Dartmouth University developed a deep learning-based system for […]
How to Present Data to a Non-Technical Audience
When you’re presenting data analytics or any technical information to a non-technical audience, it can be difficult. You have to think about the components of a good presentation in general, but also how to simplify complex subjects and information and make them resonate with your target audience. If you’re someone who understands data analytics […]
Win customers’ hearts with a transparent supply chain
Share this post: Only a few years ago, consumers could trust the quality and integrity, ultimately the provenance, of their milk. That’s because each morning it was hand-delivered from a local farm by a familiar and trustworthy face: the milkman. Such a service might seem unnecessary today, but a clear link between the creation of […]
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 35
4insight.io: 4Subsea’s digital service 4insight.io provides key decision support to personnel for oil and gas and offshore wind operations. Digital twins delivered on 4insight.io are designed to improve data quality and reduce operational costs and risk. Additio App – Classroom management: Streamline formative assessment and engage with parents through this K-12 classroom management platform. Additio […]
Connect IIoT data from disparate systems to unlock manufacturing insights
Extracting insights from multiple data sources is a new goal for manufacturers. Industrial IoT (IIoT) data is the starting point for new solutions, with the potential for giving manufacturers a competitive edge. But tracking data is often relegated to more than one solution—and each solution is created to solve a different problem. Therefore, most manufacturers […]
JP Morgan To Boost Blockchain Technology Solution Over 200 Global Banks
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, the largest U.S. bank by assets has confirmed its upcoming move. The firm is expanding it’s Interbank Information Network (IIN), its blockchain technology solution which is reportedly integrated with more functions. Accordingly, JP Morgan is boosting this service to over 200 Global banks. <![CDATA[ ]]> JP Morgan’s Blockchain Across Banking […]
Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans now generally available
We’re excited to share more ways to optimize your Azure costs. Today we are releasing the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans for RedHat Enterprise Linux and SUSE. Save up to 65 percent on your Azure SQL Data Warehouse workloads Starting today, you can purchase Reserved Capacity for Azure […]