At Microsoft Ignite 2018, we shared our vision to bring together infrastructure, application, and network monitoring into one unified offering, and provide full-stack monitoring for your applications. We have since made rapid strides towards delivering that reality to our customers. From consolidating our logs, metrics and alerts platforms, and integrating existing capabilities such as Application […]
Archives for November 2019
Accelerating customer success with Azure migration
This blog post was co-authored by Jeremy Winter, Partner Director and Tanuj Bansal, Senior Director for Microsoft Azure. At last year's Microsoft Ignite 2018, we shared best practices on how to move to the cloud and why Azure is the best destination for all your apps, data, and infrastructure. Since then, we’re happy to share […]
China Merchants Bank International (CMBI) Participates in $72 Million Token Sale of a Public Blockchain
A blockchain that claims to solve the problems of Bitcoin and Ethereum, by allowing users to enjoy scalability features without sacrificing their network securities, raised $72 million USD in an October token sale to major firms including Polychain Capital and China Merchants Bank International (CMBI) and Hashkey Capital. Nervos Network, a blockchain-based firm aiming to […]
Confirmed: Indian Telecom Regulator [TRAI] To Launch Blockchain-Based Spam SMS Blocking Platform
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) previous year issued a new draft guideline that prompted mobile operators to invest in blockchain. The step was taken to curb the menace of unwanted SMSs from marketing companies. A recent tweet by Paytym founder Vijay Shekhar has confirmed that TRAI is ready with its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) […]
Cellular IoT Device Shipments approach 350M annually by 2025
5G to Dominate IoT Cellular Device Sales by 2025. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, IoT Cellular Device Sales will undergo a transition with 5G, the dominant air interface, in 2025, as published by Strategy Analytics IoT Strategies service. Strong growth from projects in China has continued to provide a healthy impetus to […]
Azure Cognitive Services for building enterprise ready scalable AI solutions
This post is co-authored by Tina Coll, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Cognitive Services and Anny Dow, Product Marketing Manager, Azure Cognitive Services. Azure Cognitive Services brings artificial intelligence (AI) within reach of every developer without requiring machine learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, […]
Secure and compliant APIs for a hybrid and multi-cloud world
APIs are everywhere. The broad proliferation of applications throughout enterprises often results in large silos of opaque processes and services, making it hard for IT to manage and govern APIs in a systematic way, and for development teams to gain visibility into and make use of APIs that already exist. Entire industries, such as financial […]
Dedicated IoT Satellite Service Hiber Starts Commercial Trials on Global Scale
Highlights: Hiber, launched by start-up veterans from companies like Booking.com, JustEat & Treatwell, opens up $100bn remote connected tech industry On all continents Hiber will start trialling its fully automated end-to-end service across industries including agriculture, oil & gas and logistics Hiber brings connectivity to 90% of the world currently without a network Following the […]
New Azure Security Center and Azure platform security capabilities
At Microsoft Ignite we're sharing the many new capabilities our teams have built to improve security with Azure Security Center and the Azure Platform. We have a long list of new innovations, and this blog provides our general direction and summarizes some of our favorite new features. For more information, you can read all the […]
Accelerating blockchain adoption in the enterprise
The mission for our blockchain investments has remained steadfast since the beginning, with the goal of democratizing complex technologies and creating connections across organizational boundaries to solve shared problems in a trusted manner. With this in mind, our roadmap has been focused on building an open and scalable platform to advance the adoption of blockchain […]