Share this post: Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize businesses and change how society operates in the digital economy with an added layer of trust and transparency. It alters the paradigm of how multi-party transactions are performed by enabling a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions between counter parties in a business […]
New connectors added to Azure Data Factory empowering richer insights
Data is essential to your business. The ability to unblock business insights more efficiently can be a key competitive advantage to the enterprise. As data grows in volume, variety, and velocity, organizations need to bring together a continuously increasing set of diverse datasets across silos in order to perform advanced analytics and uncover business opportunities. […]
Find out when your virtual machine hardware is degraded with Scheduled Events
One of the benefits of moving to the cloud is that you, our customer, don’t need to deal with hardware maintenance and repairs; you can focus your time on your business applications. Azure continuously monitors for hardware that shows signs of degradation or potential failure. When these conditions are detected, Azure will attempt to live […]
IoT Analytics Market is expected to exhibit an ever-growing 16.2% CAGR by 2017-2025
Internet of things (IoT) analytics helps user by auto-generating operative and functional data with generation of intelligent analytics. Owing to its benefits including better efficiency, reduced operational costs and infrastructural optimization these technologies witnessing increased adoption of IoT based technologies. Rapid growth in IoT adoption and collaborations between involved cutting edge systems for delivering its […]
Azure Stream Analytics now supports Azure SQL Database as reference data input
Our goal on the Azure Stream Analytics team is to empower developers and make it incredibly easy to leverage the power of Azure to analyze big data in real-time. We achieve this by continuously listening for feedback from our customers and ship features that are delightful to use and serve as a tool for tackling […]
Integrating intelligent communications into every “thing”
The Internet of Things is moving from infancy to maturity and from limited implementation to large scale, enterprise-wide adoption. It is reaching a tipping point where ‘things’ need to incorporate intelligence and control as well as connectivity. The first generation of the Internet of Things was mostly built by retrofitting connectivity to previously un-connected devices […]
Help us shape new Azure migration capabilities: Sign up for early access!
Based on Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery usage trends, we know that many of you are well along on your Azure migration journey. We’re now working on the next wave of innovation to further enhance and simplify your migration experience. We have a great opportunity for you to influence and shape product direction through […]
Completers in Azure PowerShell
Since version 3.0, PowerShell has supported applying argument completers to cmdlet parameters. These argument completers allow you to tab through a set of values that are valid for the parameter. However, unlike ValidateSet which enforces that only the provided values are passed to the cmdlet, argument completers do not restrict the values that can be […]
Modernizing payment management for online merchants
E-commerce merchants all over the world are innovating every day to offer customers the best user experience. To keep customers coming back, the buying experience should leave only good impressions, from beginning to end. To achieve this, merchants want to examine every step—especially the payment checkout. So, payment processors need to complement and support the […]
Azure.Source – Volume 68
Now available in preview Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preview Scale out read-heavy workloads on Azure Database for PostgreSQL with read replicas, which enable continuous, asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL master server to up to five Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replica servers in the same […]