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 […]
Archives for 2018
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 […]
Azure Databricks provides the best Apache Spark™-based analytics solution for data scientists and engineers
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building Big Data and AI solutions that drive the business forward, all backed by industry leading SLAs. I am excited to announce the availability of a set of new features and regions, which enable our customers […]
Monitor Azure Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite
Data Integration solutions can be complex with many moving parts involving complex data factories with multiple pipelines. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your data factory pipelines stay up and running in a healthy state. It also helps you to stave off potential problems or troubleshoot past ones. In addition, you can use monitoring data […]
Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, we announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge. This release adds tons of new features for those already using public preview bits. Customers who have never used Azure IoT Edge can start with the Linux or Windows quickstarts. Those who have started projects on preview bits should upgrade to […]
The emerging big data architectural pattern
Why lambda? Lambda architecture is a popular pattern in building Big Data pipelines. It is designed to handle massive quantities of data by taking advantage of both a batch layer (also called cold layer) and a stream-processing layer (also called hot or speed layer). The following are some of the reasons that have led to […]
Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview
Today we are excited to announce the public preview of static website hosting for Azure Storage! The feature set is available in all public cloud regions with support in government and sovereign clouds coming soon. This set of new storage capabilities enables a cost-effective and scalable solution for hosting integrated modern web applications on Azure. […]
Using the Retry pattern to make your cloud application more resilient
This post was authored by Jason Haley, Microsoft Azure MVP. Recently, I was at Boston Code Camp catching up with some old friends and looking to learn about containers or anything that could help me in my current project of migrating a microservices application to run in containers. I was speaking with one friend who […]
Get video insights in (even) more languages!
For those of you who might not have tried it yet, Video Indexer is a cloud application and platform built upon media AI technologies to make it easier to extract insights from video and audio files. As a starting point for extracting the textual part of the insights, the solution creates a transcript based on […]