How can retail banks generate curated experiences? Learn from retailers. They use a cloud platform that orchestrates experiences from omni-channels to devices using data collected from various touchpoints. The data is combined and analyzed with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning technology. With these technologies, retailers can now understand the shopping behavior of a customer and offer […]
Archives for July 2018
New Azure #CosmosDB Explorer now in public preview
Today we're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB Explorer, a full screen standalone web-based version of the Data Explorer many of you already use in Azure Portal for Cosmos DB. With Cosmos DB Explorer you can: Take advantage of the full screen real estate for your queries and results. Access your database account and collections […]
IP filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus
For scenarios in which Azure Event Hubs or Azure Service Bus is only accessible from certain well-known sites, the IP Filter feature enables you to configure rules for accepting or rejecting traffic originated from specify IP addresses, for instance the addresses that come under corporate NAT gateway. The Azure team is happy to announce the […]
What’s new in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices, and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly adding new features, and true to the promise of SaaS applications, you can just start using these features right away to build production-grade […]
Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in UK South region
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) – a cloud-based network monitoring solution for cloud-only, on-premises, and hybrid networking environments, is now generally available in the UK South region. Customers in this region can now use various capabilities of NPM, such as: Performance Monitor to monitor connectivity between various locations on the network, visualize the health of all […]
Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview
This blog was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli , Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking and Sumeet Mittal, Program Manager, Azure Networking. Azure Event Hubs, a highly reliable and easily scalable data streaming platform as a service (PaaS) offering has been prolific this year with new features such as Availability Zones and a big investment into Open […]
Agile SAP development with SAP Cloud Platform on Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Mario Szpuszta, Principal Software Engineer, Azure CAT Recently we announced that SAP Cloud Platform is transitioning from Beta to general availability on Azure. SAP Cloud Platform (SAP CP) is SAP’s multi-cloud platform-as-a-service offering and is now available for production use in Azure West Europe. With SAP CP on Azure, […]
Azure.Source – Volume 38
Announcements at GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge – Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure, covers announcements he made at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. He also discussed how customers are using the cloud and what the future holds with GeekWire’s […]
Securing the connection between Power BI and Azure SQL Database
How can you connect to Azure SQL Database from the Power BI service in a secure fashion? The easiest way to limit access to the database is to select the “allow access to Azure Services” option (Figure1). This can be found in the database server options in the Azure portal. This allows Power BI to […]
Spoken Language Identification in Video Indexer
We are excited to share that Video Indexer has a new capability, Spoken Language Identification (LID)! A common ask from our customers has been to enable indexing of videos or batches of videos, without manually providing their language. This is especially important for batch uploads. To support this, we have introduced automatic spoken language identification […]