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 […]
Archives for 2019
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 […]
Azure.Source – Volume 72
Now in preview Announcing Azure Spatial Anchors for collaborative, cross-platform mixed reality apps Azure Spatial Anchors, a mixed reality service that enables you to build a new generation of mixed reality applications that are collaborative, cross-platform, and spatially aware, is now in public preview. Across industries, developers and businesses are using mixed reality in their […]
Guardian modules: Bringing Azure Sphere security to brownfield IoT
When someone mentions the words “Internet of Things,” often the first picture that comes to mind is some sort of device with the Internet “built-in.” However, a built-in design involves months or years of design work and applies only to devices that have yet to come to market. How do businesses leverage IoT for the […]
The highlights for Pelion IoT Platform at MWC 2019
Despite all the build-up to Mobile World Congress, it always goes by at such break neck speed and this years event was just as busy and exciting as ever. Here are some of the highlights of our Pelion IoT Platform from the show. Working with our partners to simplify IoT deployment Arm was very excited […]
The Cloud Doesn’t Eliminate The Need For Data Recovery Software
Cloud computing has disrupted the digital technology sector in surprising ways. According to some estimates, the market is expected to rise to $411 billion by the end of next year. The rapid growth can largely be attributed to advances in artificial intelligence and big data. However, despite some of the fascinating advances, there are still […]