Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation. We have many customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on Kubernetes. However, they also like how easy it is to use Azure Monitor for containers which provides fully managed, out of the box monitoring […]
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 41
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 109 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications Active Directory Domain Controller 2019: This virtual machine comes pre-loaded with the Active Directory Domain Services role, DNS server role, remote administration tools for Active […]
Japan Plans To Build A “SWIFT-LIKE” Blockchain Payment Network
According to an insider familiar with the matter on Thursday, the Japanese government is leading innovation to build a payment network for cryptocurrencies similar to SWIFT used by banks. This news comes in an effort of the Japanese government to fight financial crimes and money laundering. According to the report, these are issues resulting from […]
Soracom Reduces Cost and Increases Performance for Global IoT Connectivity
Cost of cellular data reduced by as much as 75% in 83 countries, with faster data transmission and reduced network latency available worldwide. Soracom, Inc., a global provider of smart connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced significant performance enhancements to its worldwide platform for cellular IoT connectivity along with significant reductions in […]
World’s First Connected, Secured Payment Card Enabled by Sprint’s Curiosity™ IoT
The World’s First Connected, Secured Payment Card – Already Backed by Major Banks Like Emirates NBD – is Enabled by Curiosity™ IoT for Connectivity, Remote Device Management, and Data Intelligence. Sprint’s Curiosity™ IoT is enabling connectivity, over-the-air device management and intelligent data capabilities for Dynamics’ Wallet Card™ – the world’s first connected payment card – […]
5G Americas White Paper Explores Connected Future of IoT and 5G
20 billion connected things and $1 trillion in worldwide IoT spending by 2020 56 networks worldwide now offer LTE Narrowband-IoT 24 networks worldwide now offer LTE-M Machine Type Communications 5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the publication of 5G: The Future of IoT. This […]
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
This post is co-authored by Rangan Majumder, Group Program Manager, Bing and Maxim Lukiyanov, Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning. Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can […]
Direct Line with speech now available in preview
With over 360,000 registered Azure Bot Service developers, we’ve seen significant growth in bots and virtual assistants built on Azure. A major trend we’re following is the growing need for these assistants to support voice-first conversational experiences. As a result, we’re taking steps to make it even easier for developers to build virtual assistants with […]
Cubic Telecom introduces Cloud-to-Chip solution
Cubic Telecom is the first to develop and deliver cutting-edge zero-touch software enabling cellular IoT devices onto your public or private cloud. Cubic Telecom announced at Microsoft Inspire that it has developed new state-of-the-art technology which simplifies and streamlines cellular IoT connectivity for device makers, system integrators and cloud providers. Using the fastest LTE and […]
Assess the readiness of SQL Server data estates migrating to Azure SQL Database
Migrating hundreds of SQL Server instances and thousands of databases to Azure SQL Database, our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, is a considerable task, and to streamline the process as much as possible, you need to feel confident about your relative readiness for migration. Being able to identify low-hanging fruit including the servers and […]