Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices, and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly adding new features, and true to the promise of SaaS applications, you can just start using these features right away to build production-grade […]
Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in UK South region
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) – a cloud-based network monitoring solution for cloud-only, on-premises, and hybrid networking environments, is now generally available in the UK South region. Customers in this region can now use various capabilities of NPM, such as: Performance Monitor to monitor connectivity between various locations on the network, visualize the health of all […]
Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview
This blog was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli , Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking and Sumeet Mittal, Program Manager, Azure Networking. Azure Event Hubs, a highly reliable and easily scalable data streaming platform as a service (PaaS) offering has been prolific this year with new features such as Availability Zones and a big investment into Open […]
Agile SAP development with SAP Cloud Platform on Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Mario Szpuszta, Principal Software Engineer, Azure CAT Recently we announced that SAP Cloud Platform is transitioning from Beta to general availability on Azure. SAP Cloud Platform (SAP CP) is SAP’s multi-cloud platform-as-a-service offering and is now available for production use in Azure West Europe. With SAP CP on Azure, […]
Azure.Source – Volume 38
Announcements at GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge – Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure, covers announcements he made at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. He also discussed how customers are using the cloud and what the future holds with GeekWire’s […]
Securing the connection between Power BI and Azure SQL Database
How can you connect to Azure SQL Database from the Power BI service in a secure fashion? The easiest way to limit access to the database is to select the “allow access to Azure Services” option (Figure1). This can be found in the database server options in the Azure portal. This allows Power BI to […]
Spoken Language Identification in Video Indexer
We are excited to share that Video Indexer has a new capability, Spoken Language Identification (LID)! A common ask from our customers has been to enable indexing of videos or batches of videos, without manually providing their language. This is especially important for batch uploads. To support this, we have introduced automatic spoken language identification […]
Azure Databricks provides the best Apache Spark™-based analytics solution for data scientists and engineers
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building Big Data and AI solutions that drive the business forward, all backed by industry leading SLAs. I am excited to announce the availability of a set of new features and regions, which enable our customers […]
Monitor Azure Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite
Data Integration solutions can be complex with many moving parts involving complex data factories with multiple pipelines. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your data factory pipelines stay up and running in a healthy state. It also helps you to stave off potential problems or troubleshoot past ones. In addition, you can use monitoring data […]
Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, we announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge. This release adds tons of new features for those already using public preview bits. Customers who have never used Azure IoT Edge can start with the Linux or Windows quickstarts. Those who have started projects on preview bits should upgrade to […]