In the late 1990s, the time and date features of computer systems became a topic of high interest for every business, as programmers realized that a simple abbreviation of four digit years to only the last two digits had a fatal flaw – the rollover to the year 2000. But early preparation and remediation ensured […]
Alerts in Azure are now all the more consistent!
Azure Monitor alerts provides rich alerting capabilities on a variety of telemetry such as metrics, logs, and activity logs. Over the past year, we have unified the alerting experience by providing a common consumption experience including UX and API for alerts. However, the payload format for alerts remained different which puts the burden of building […]
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 2: Cluster health and availability
This is the second blog post in a four-part series on Monitoring on Azure HDInsight. “Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 1: An Overview” discusses the three main monitoring categories: cluster health and availability, resource utilization and performance, and job status and logs. This blog covers the first of those topics, cluster health and availability, in […]
The future of manufacturing is open
With the expansion of IoT across all industries data is becoming the currency of innovation. Organizations have both an opportunity and a business imperative to adopt technologies quickly, build digital competencies, and offer new value-added services that will serve their broader ecosystem. Manufacturing is an industry where IoT is having a transformational impact, yet which […]
Schema validation with Event Hubs
Event Hubs is fully managed, real-time ingestion Azure service. It integrates seamlessly with other Azure services. It also allows Apache Kafka clients and applications to talk to Event Hubs without any code changes. Apache Avro is a binary serialization format. It relies on schemas (defined in JSON format) that define what fields are present and […]
Enabling precision medicine with integrated genomic and clinical data
Precision medicine tailors a patient’s medical treatment by factoring in their genetic makeup and clinical data. The key to applying this methodology is integrating clinical data with an individual’s genomic data for the most complete longitudinal healthcare record to power the most precise and effective treatment. Problem: data in silos, detached from the point of […]
Step up your machine learning process with Azure Machine Learning service
Everyone’s talking about machine learning (ML). Business decision makers are finding ways to deploy machine learning in their organizations. Data scientists are keeping up with all the advancements, tools, and frameworks available. Media outlets are reporting on awe-inspiring breakthroughs in the artificial intelligence revolution. We believe the way forward lies in democratizing artificial intelligence and […]
Azure.Source – Volume 76
Hybrid strategy | Preview | Generally available | News & updates | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Build a Successful Hybrid Strategy Do you have workloads in the cloud & on-premises? Then you know how important it is to have a comprehensive hybrid design and implementation plan. To […]
Azure Search – New Storage Optimized service tiers available in preview
Azure Search is an AI-powered cloud search service for modern mobile and web app development. Azure Search is the only cloud search service with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that enrich all types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale. It uses the same integrated Microsoft natural language stack as Bing […]
People Recognition Enhancements – Video Indexer
Want to train Video Indexer to recognize people relevant specifically to your account? We have great news for you! Face detection and recognition are both very widely used insights that Video Indexer provides. The face recognition feature includes the ability to recognize around 1M celebrity faces out of the box and to train account level […]