Today we’re introducing the preview for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from server-side encryption with platform managed keys (PMK) for Azure Managed Disks enabled by default. Customers also benefit from Azure disk encryption (ADE) that leverages the BitLocker feature of Windows and the DM-Crypt feature […]
Rain or shine: Azure Maps Weather Services will bring insights to your enterprise
Weather: the bane of many motorists, transporters, agriculturalists, retailers, or just about anyone who has to deal with it—which is all of us. That said, we can embrace weather and use weather data to our advantage by integrating it into our daily lives. Azure Maps is proud to share the preview of a new set […]
Azure IoT Central: Democratizing IoT for all solution builders
For the last five years, our industry has buzzed with the promises of IoT. IoT has evolved from being a next-horizon term, to a common vernacular employed across industry conversations. In fact, earlier this year we surveyed 3,000 enterprise decision makers across the world and learned that 85% have developed at least one IoT project. […]
Building retail solutions with Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central is an IoT app platform for solution builders that simplifies the challenges of building and deploying scalable and affordable enterprise grade IoT applications. Across the retail industry, the use of connected devices to deliver business performance continues to grow in popularity. New solutions are accelerating business model transformation by connecting manufacturers, supply […]
Advancing industrial IoT capabilities in Azure Time Series Insights
Late last year, we announced the preview of some of the foundational capabilities of our industrial IoT analytics platform with a scalable time series storage for trending decades of data, semantic model support to describe domain-specific metadata, and enhanced analytics APIs and UX. We are building on the power of this analytics platform with additional […]
Smart Factory: Optimizing Outcomes by Digitizing Factory Operations
The 3rd Annual Internet of Manufacturing South is a very important conference for the construction and support of the industrial ecosystem. It’s the destination for you to build on your competitive edge, engage with other manufacturing leaders and meet the solution providers disrupting the market. In the build up to Internet of Manufacturing South 2019 […]
Dutch Army contract will utilize new containers with AT&T IoT connectivity built in
AT&T is delivering IoT connectivity and services to track vital military equipment around the world. Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (Marshall ADG) will deploy AT&T’s highly secure IoT capabilities into its overall connected container service model for its end customers, including its recently won global managed container service contract with the Dutch Army. The solution […]
China’s President Wants The Country To Be A Global Blockchain Leader
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping in an organized study session said that the communist party should use blockchain technology for important innovations and also take steps to accelerate the development of the same. Will China emerge as a Blockchain Leader? Jinping lauded blockchain in a meeting with the political bureau of the party’s Central Committee. […]
Securing the IoT: A Critical and Attainable Goal for Every Enterprise
The sheer amounts of data generated from the 44 billion IoT devices by 2023 will make every zettabyte of data vulnerable to attack; the time to secure the IoT is now. Integrating security into IoT projects is not an easy feat but is an increasingly urgent necessity. With an installed base of 44 billion connected […]
Thingstream launches MQTT Here to simplify node to enterprise data integration for private LoRaWAN® networks
Thingstream’s new Connectivity-as-a-service offering for LoRaWAN® networks, MQTT Here, provides enterprises with the simplest technical proposition to reliably transport sensor data from LoRaWAN gateways directly into enterprise systems with zero integration overhead, in a straightforward commercial model. Thingstream, the leading global low-power MQTT network provider now lead the field in unified sensor data connectivity and […]