Enterprise leaders understand how important the Internet of Things (IoT) will be to their companies—in fact, according to a report by McKinsey & Company, 92 percent of them believe IoT will help them innovate products and improve operations by 2020. However, like many business-enabling systems, IoT is not without its growing pains. Even early adopters […]
Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available
As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and increasingly deploy performance sensitive cloud-native applications, we are excited to announce general availability of Azure Premium Blob Storage. Premium Blob Storage is a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage for block blobs and append blobs, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and Archive access tiers. Premium Blob Storage is […]
Azure Storage support for Azure Active Directory based access control generally available
We are pleased to share the general availability of Azure Active Directory (AD) based access control for Azure Storage Blobs and Queues. Enterprises can now grant specific data access permissions to users and service identities from their Azure AD tenant using Azure’s Role-based access control (RBAC). Administrators can then track individual user and service access […]
Incrementally copy new files by LastModifiedDate with Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is the fully-managed data integration service for analytics workloads in Azure. Using ADF, users can load the lake from 80 plus data sources on-premises and in the cloud, use a rich set of transform activities to prep, cleanse, and process the data using Azure analytics engines, while also landing the curated […]
Azure.Source – Volume 75
Preview | Generally available | News & updates | GTC 2019 | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Now in preview Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview on Azure The public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service is now available on Azure. Customers can now access the […]
Building serverless microservices in Azure – sample architecture
Distributed applications take full advantage of living in the cloud to run globally, avoid bottlenecks, and always be available for users worldwide. This not only requires the right infrastructure to be deployed in, but also support for the decoupled architecture an application with these characteristics versus the traditional monolithic approach. This is why most cloud […]
Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disk sizes of up to 32 TiB on Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD disk offerings. In addition, we support disk sizes up to 64 TiB on Ultra Disks in preview. We are also increasing the performance scale […]
Four Data-Driven Tactics For A Successful eCommerce Website
To start and run an e-commerce business is, by no means, an easy feat. When you start an online store, to ensure it actually succeeds and makes a name for itself is another challenge altogether. In a world as competitive as today, where businesses aren’t just competing at a local level, but at a global […]
Big Data Solves Website Loading Issues For Foreign Traffic
Big data is helping online entrepreneurs address some of the most pressing obstacles that they have faced for years. Marketers have utilized deep learning technology to get a better understanding of their customers, so they can refine their creative and targeting strategies. However, there are less obvious applications of big data that are equally important. […]
China’s Mobile Industry Set to Drive Economic Growth Into the 5G Era
China’s mobile ecosystem added RMB5.2 trillion ($750 billion) in value to the country’s economy last year, equivalent to 5.5 percent of China’s GDP in 20181, according to a new GSMA report. The data features in the first ever China edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy report series, which is published today at a special roundtable […]