This blog post was co-authored by Sumeet Mittal, Senior Program Manager, Azure Networking. Ensure security and limit access to your MariaDB server with the virtual network (VNet) service endpoints now generally available for Azure Database for MariaDB. VNet service endpoints enable you to isolate connectivity to your logical server from a given subnet within your […]
Archives for March 2019
Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL
For read-heavy workloads that you are looking to scale out, you can use read replicas, which are now generally available to all Azure Database for MySQL users. Read replicas make it easy to horizontally scale out beyond a single database server. This is useful in workloads such as BI reporting and web applications, which tend […]
Azure Marketplace and Cloud Solution Provider updates – March 2019
In February, Microsoft shared an ambitious vision to continue innovating as a technology provider and to improve the experience for solution developers and service providers when engaging with Microsoft. Our partners are delivering more innovation in AI, expanding their business through more co-selling opportunities, and leveraging distribution options through our commercial marketplaces such as Azure […]
Here’s How Big Data Influences Banking And Online Lenders
It was an ideal time for online lenders to arrive in Silicon Valley. After the financial crisis of 2008, banks who were the first choice as lenders for everyday people took a little bit of time to comprehend the way in which customers wanted to access credit and they were not ready to take any […]
Azure Communications is hosting an “Ask Me Anything” session!
Have you ever wondered where those service notifications in the Azure Portal and the Azure Status page come from? Curious why some messages appear to have more information than others? Interested in learning more about what goes into an outage statement? This is your chance to find out! The Azure Communications team will be hosting […]
Service Fabric Processor in public preview
Microsoft clients for Azure Event Hubs have always had two levels of abstraction. There is the low-level client, which includes event sender and receiver classes which allow for maximum control by the application, but also force the application to understand the configuration of the Event Hub and maintain an event receiver connected to each partition. […]
Tele2 IoT keeps public transport running on road, rail and sea
Sweden’s second largest public transportation company, Västtrafik, transports nearly one million passengers each day via train, tram, boat and bus – that’s equal to nearly 12 trips around the globe – and Tele2 IoT is the glue that helps keep it together. Operating in both rural and urban areas of western Sweden, Västtrafik is the […]
Announcing new Azure Security Center capabilities at RSA 2019
This is an exciting week for us at Microsoft. At RSA Conference 2019, we are announcing new and exciting capabilities in Azure and Microsoft 365. With this blog post, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on for Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center now leverages machine learning to reduce the […]
Announcing new capabilities in Azure Firewall
Today we are excited to launch two new key capabilities to Azure Firewall. Threat intelligence based filtering Service tags filtering Azure Firewall is a cloud native firewall-as-a-service offering which enables customers to centrally govern all their traffic flows using a DevOps approach. The service supports both application (such as *.github.com), and network level filtering rules. […]
Presenting the new IIC Security Maturity Model for IoT
Organizations deploying IoT solutions often ask similar questions as they address security—What is the risk my organization takes on as we adopt IoT? How much security do we need for our scenario? Where should we invest for the biggest impact? To answer those questions, Microsoft co-authored and edited the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) IoT Security […]