New Monarch cellular extension board for ST Discovery kits now available; new integrated Monarch/STM32 module in the works. Sequans Communications S.A. is working with STMicroelectronics to bring LTE for IoT connectivity to the MCU ecosystem and accelerate its adoption. From this collaboration, the companies have developed a dedicated cellular extension board for STM32 Discovery kits […]
Archives for 2019
How Azure Security Center helps you protect your environment from new vulnerabilities
Recently the disclosure of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was announced in the open-source software (OSS) container runtime, runc. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root-level code execution on a host. Runc is the underlying container runtime underneath many popular containers. Azure Security Center can help you detect vulnerable resources in your environment within Microsoft […]
Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available
The Azure Sphere 19.02 release is available today. In our second quarterly release after public preview, our focus is on broader enablement of device capabilities, reducing your time to market with new reference solutions, and continuing to prioritize features based on feedback from organizations building with Azure Sphere. Today Azure Sphere’s hardware offerings are centered […]
Big data, IoT will drive world’s data to grow 5X by 2025
More about Big Data The Global Datasphere—the measure of how much new data is produced and replicated every year—will grow by more than five times within the next seven years, according to a Seagate report released on Wednesday. Major drivers in data growth worldwide are attributed to investments in entertainment data and video surveillance footage, […]
Learn how to build with Azure IoT: Upcoming IoT Deep Dive events
Microsoft IoT Show, the place to go to hear about the latest announcements, tech talks, and technical demos, is starting a new interactive, live-streaming event and technical video series called IoT Deep Dive! Each IoT Deep Dive will bring in a set of IoT experts, like Joseph Biron, PTC CTO of IoT, and Chafia Aouissi, […]
Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2
On February 7, 2018 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer […]
Cradlepoint’s Elastic Edge provides blueprint for secure, scalable and costeffective 4G and 5G networks for IoT
George Mulhern is CEO and chairman of the board at Cradlepoint, a provider of cloud-delivered LTE network solutions for business, service providers and government organisations that was established in 2006. More than 25,000 customers worldwide in retail, financial services, healthcare, transportation, public sector and other industries, rely on Cradlepoint to keep their branch and mobile […]
Monitor at scale in Azure Monitor with multi-resource metric alerts
Our customers rely on Azure to run large scale applications and services critical to their business. To run services at scale, you need to setup alerts to proactively detect, notify, and remediate issues before it affects your customers. However, configuring alerts can be hard when you have a complex, dynamic environment with lots of moving […]
Protect Azure Virtual Machines using storage spaces direct with Azure Site Recovery
Storage spaces direct (S2D) lets you host a guest cluster on Microsoft Azure which is especially useful in scenarios where virtual machines (VMs) are hosting a critical application like SQL, Scale out file server, or SAP ASCS. You can learn more about clustering by reading the article, “Deploying laaS VM Guest Clusters in Microsoft Azure.” […]
IoT spaceship, the 5G
There is little doubt that 5G will have profound impact on the course of human civilization. Mobile subscribers would benefit from 5G in different ways which can be summarized as better user experiences. However, the greater impact is on Machines, to make the world highly connected and ultra-smart. The foundation for such transformation will be […]