Meeting regulatory compliance obligations and complying with all the requirements of benchmark standards can be a significant challenge in a cloud or hybrid environment. Identifying which assessments to perform, evaluating the status, and resolving the gaps can be a very daunting task. Azure Security Center (ASC) now helps streamline this process with the new regulatory […]
Archives for 2019
Passwords have had their day: Why we can expect an accelerated shift towards biometrics in 2019
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the first ever internet transmission in 1969. As we near this milestone, says Andrew Shikiar, chief marketing officer of the FIDO Alliance, contentions regarding privacy and security online abound. While the problem of authentication is nothing new, it has risen to the forefront in recent years as numerous high-profile data […]
Japan to Launch Blockchain Payment Experiment for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Japan’s famously conservative financial system is set to receive the biggest shakeup in decades as one of the world’s largest financial institutions is building a blockchain-based consumer network designed to handle a million transactions per second in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. <![CDATA[ ]]> The MIT Technology Review reports that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group […]
Strategic Partnership for Joint Machine Learning Solutions
A1 Digital, a subsidiary of the A1 Telekom Austria Group, and BigML, the leading Machine Learning platform company based in USA and Spain, have agreed on a strategic partnership for joint Machine Learning solutions. Companies can now use leading Machine Learning solutions based on the European cloud platform Exoscale. With the partnership with BigML, A1 Digital […]
IIoT: Digital Catapult launches connected factory trial
Digital Catapult has joined forces with two UK manufacturers, Dyer Engineering and Special Metals Wiggin, to demonstrate the potential of industrial internet of things (IIoT) technology. The project will utilise innovations from connected factory start-ups to “unlock productivity, streamline processes, improve yield and increase quality control.” The Connected Factory Demonstrator brings together Digital Catapult with […]
China to press ahead with investments in 5G and IoT
China’s top economic planning agency says investing in “new form of infrastructure” is a top priority. China will press ahead with investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G in 2019 as it competes with the US in the two key areas amid a technology race between the world’s two biggest economies. China’s state planner has […]
HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available
We are pleased to announce the general availability for Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode). HDInsight Tools for VSCode give developers a cross-platform lightweight code editor for developing HDInsight PySpark and Hive batch jobs and interactive query. For PySpark developers who value the productivity Python enables, HDInsight Tools for VSCode offer a quick […]
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability
General availability of Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones The Azure Messaging team is continually working to enhance the resiliency and availability of our service offerings – Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Event Grid. As part of this effort, in June 2018, we previewed Azure Service Bus Premium tier for Availability […]
Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview
In today’s security-first digital age, ensuring secure connectivity to IoT devices is of paramount importance. A wide range of operational and maintenance scenarios in the IoT space rely on end-to-end device connectivity in order to enable users and services to interact with, login, troubleshoot, send, or receive data from devices. Security and compliance with the […]
Announcing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API Management
Azure API Management has just introduced preview support of OpenAPI Specification v3 – the latest version of the broadly used open-source standard of describing APIs. Implementation of the feature is based on the OpenAPI.NET SDK. In this blog post we will explore: The benefits of using OpenAPI Specification for your APIs. How you can create […]