According to a Gartner 2017 prediction, “60 percent of big data projects will fail to go beyond piloting and experimentation, these projects will be abandoned”. Whether you worked on an analytical project or are starting one, it is a challenge on any cloud. You need to juggle the intricacies of cloud provider services, open source […]
Archives for 2018
How to move your e-commerce infrastructure to Azure
Retailers everywhere have started moving parts of their business to Azure. When looking at moving more of the data center into Azure, teams can see the current state, and the end state. At the end state, they see all the possibilities: AI, chatbots, advanced analytics, elastic scalability, and more. They also see how many of […]
Orchestrating production-grade workloads with Azure Kubernetes Service
Happy Birthday Kubernetes! In the short three years that Kubernetes has been around, it has become the industry standard for orchestration of containerized workloads. In Azure, we have spent the last three years helping customers run Kubernetes in the cloud. As much as Kubernetes simplifies the task of orchestration, there’s plenty of setup and management […]
Security Center’s adaptive application controls are generally available
Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux
Lately there have been a whole lot of changes to Java and its vibrant communities. Now shared between Oracle for Java SE and Eclipse Foundation for Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE), Java continues to be the leading programming language by developers and enterprises. As a matter of fact, it is now well-positioned to thrive in […]
New recommendations in Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a free service that analyzes your Azure usage and provides recommendations on how you can optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security, and improve reliability. We are excited to announce that we have added several new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you get the most out of your […]
General Electric (GE) participate in $12M Investment Round for Blockchain Industrial IoT Startup, Xage
Xage, a Blockchain Cybersecurity Startup, will receive $12 million in a series A fundraising round from investors including Capital Partners, City Light Capital, NexStar Partners, and GE Ventures—the investment arm of General Electric. Xage technology startup which is valued at $35 million, uses blockchain to connect industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices together securely. According […]
Top feature requests added with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.2.0
We’re excited to see a ton of engagement and positive feedback on Azure Blockchain Workbench since our initial public preview release in May. Last month, we made our first major update to the public preview release based on your feedback and feature requests. Today, we’re releasing our next update to Workbench, which we’re calling version […]
Announcing availability of Azure Managed Application in AzureGov
Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Provider (MSP), Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the enterprise Service Catalog of a specific end-customer. Customers can quickly deploy managed applications in their own subscription and rely on the partner or central […]
Azure Marketplace new offers: June 16–30
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From June 16 to 30, 22 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual Machines Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance-BYOL: Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance provides access to engineering Software-as-a-Service, allowing companies to expand computer-aided engineering capacity. […]