With a compound annual growth rate of 28.5 percent forecasted by 2020, the global Internet of Things (IoT) market is exploding, and the technology behind IoT continues to evolve at a feverish pace. Here at Microsoft, we’re working hard to secure, simplify, and democratize IoT so that every customer can transform business, and the world […]
Archives for August 2018
Azure Site Recovery powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery for DR
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for applications running in Azure and on-premises. Using ASR, you can reduce application downtime during IT interruptions, without compromising compliance. ASR provides comprehensive coverage for on-premises applications across Linux, Windows, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, and physical servers. Azure Site Recovery now powers […]
Advocates urge Facebook to open up their algorithms to researchers
Aug 13, 2018 Source Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…We know we lose 2m brain cells every minute [a blood clot is in the brain].” Yet the two therapies that can transform [stroke] outcomes — clot-busting drugs and an operation called a thrombectomy — are rarely used because, by the time a stroke is diagnosed and a surgical team assembled, too much […]
Azure.Source – Volume 44
Now in preview Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service – Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative […]
Azure Marketplace new offers: July 1–15
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From July 1 to 15, 97 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual Machines Bloombase StoreSafe: Bloombase StoreSafe delivers agentless, non-disruptive, application-transparent encryption security of data at-rest in enterprise storage systems, enabling customers to lock down […]
New customizations in Azure Migrate to support your cloud migration
You can accelerate your cloud migration using intelligent migration assessment services like Azure Migrate. Azure Migrate is a generally available service, offered at no additional charge, that helps you plan your migration to Azure. Azure Migrate discovers servers in your on-premises environment and assesses each discovered server’s readiness to run as an IaaS VM in […]
Redefining Active-Active Network Connections
Network device and data center connections often described as “active-active” might be better termed “psuedo active-active.” Have you noticed that “active-active” has gotten over-used in networking? Not to mention, used inappropriately? The industry could use a little more accuracy in terminology, and perhaps candor, around the use of “active-active.” My suggestion: The term “pseudo active-active” […]
Azure #CosmosDB reference solution: Visualizing real-time data analysis with change feed
This blog post was co-authored by Devki Trivedi, Serena Davis, and Pascal Habineza. The Cosmos DB Explorer Interns are excited to release a reference solution that utilizes the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed feature (+ Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Power BI). This solution features a hands-on lab that guides users through […]
Azure Data Factory Visual tools now supports GitHub integration
GitHub is a development platform that allows you to host and review code, manage projects and build software alongside millions of other developers from open source to business. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a managed data integration service in Azure that allows you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. […]
New locations for Azure CDN now available
Back in May during Microsoft Build, we made our own Content Delivery Network available to Azure customers. Building on our years of experience scaling enterprise-class services, opening up access to this vast amount of infrastructure previously not accessible to customers was a significant milestone for us. In line with our mission to offer the broadest […]