Now in preview Announcing public preview of Azure IoT Hub manual failover feature – IoT Hub cloud service manual failover enables customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 10 min–2 hours. The IoT Hub service provides cross-regional automatic […]
Accelerate healthcare initiatives with Azure UK NHS blueprints
Today, the healthcare industry is confronting many complex and daunting challenges that include demands to: Increase patient engagement. Take advantage of big data, analytics, artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). Integrate consumer health apps, wearables, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Combat cybersecurity threats, breaches, and ransomware. In the midst of this, however, […]
Real example: improve accuracy, reduce training times for existing R codebase
When you buy an item on a favored website, does the site show you pictures of what others have bought? That’s the result of a recommendation system. Retailers have been building such systems for years, many built using the programming language R. For older implementations of recommender systems, it’s time to consider improving performance and […]
Managed Disks migration now available in the Azure Portal
We are excited to announce the capability of converting VMs with unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal! Now you can migrate to Managed Disks in single click without requiring PowerShell or CLI scripts. Our customers love the benefits of using Managed Disks. Many customers have already adopted Managed Disks since we launched […]
Improve collaborative care and clinical data sharing with blockchain
Currently, the healthcare industry suffers major inefficiencies due to diverse uncoordinated and unconnected data sources/systems. Collaboration is vital to improve healthcare outcomes. With digitized health data, the exchange of healthcare information across healthcare organizations is essential to support effective care collaboration. Traditional health information exchanges have had limited success. Blockchain offers new capabilities to greatly […]
Automatic intelligent insights to optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
We are excited to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) serves you intelligent performance insights within the Azure portal! SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for the enterprise optimized for running complex queries fast across petabytes of data. Continuously delivering on fully managed experiences, customers no longer need to […]
Azure Marketplace consulting offers: April
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In April, 73 consulting offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: 1-Day: Getting Started with Industrial Azure IoT: Create a roadmap for delivering an Azure IoT pilot in 30 days to connect industrial equipment to the cloud. Connect […]
Azure management groups now in general availability
Azure.Source – Volume 42
Now in preview Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux – Support for Java SE 8-based applications on Linux in Azure App Service is now available in public preview. Now you can build and deploy Java web apps on a highly scalable, self-patching web hosting service where bug fixes and security updates will […]
Azure cloud business value for retail and consumer goods explained
For brick and mortar retailers, the world has been overturned. Online retailers have been demolishing their market share and icons of commerce are struggling. But what helped online retailers can help the offline. The cloud can also be used by brick and mortar retailers. In fact, the brick and mortar experience, transformed with cloud technology, […]