We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. We are proud to announce the general availability […]
Azure.Source – Volume 70
Now in preview Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics Many customers use Azure Stream Analytics to continuously monitor massive amounts of fast-moving streams of data to detect issues that do not conform to expected patterns and prevent catastrophic losses. This in essence is anomaly detection. Built-in machine learning models for […]
Microsoft Announces New Azure Analytics Services ADLS, ADX and More
Microsoft has announced the general availability of two new Azure analytics services – Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) and Azure Data Explorer (ADX). Furthermore, Microsoft also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow. The new ADLS Gen2 service combines scalability, cost-effectiveness, and a security model with rich analytics capabilities using the […]
How Azure Security Center helps you protect your environment from new vulnerabilities
Recently the disclosure of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was announced in the open-source software (OSS) container runtime, runc. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root-level code execution on a host. Runc is the underlying container runtime underneath many popular containers. Azure Security Center can help you detect vulnerable resources in your environment within Microsoft […]
Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available
The Azure Sphere 19.02 release is available today. In our second quarterly release after public preview, our focus is on broader enablement of device capabilities, reducing your time to market with new reference solutions, and continuing to prioritize features based on feedback from organizations building with Azure Sphere. Today Azure Sphere’s hardware offerings are centered […]
Learn how to build with Azure IoT: Upcoming IoT Deep Dive events
Microsoft IoT Show, the place to go to hear about the latest announcements, tech talks, and technical demos, is starting a new interactive, live-streaming event and technical video series called IoT Deep Dive! Each IoT Deep Dive will bring in a set of IoT experts, like Joseph Biron, PTC CTO of IoT, and Chafia Aouissi, […]
Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2
On February 7, 2018 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer […]
Monitor at scale in Azure Monitor with multi-resource metric alerts
Our customers rely on Azure to run large scale applications and services critical to their business. To run services at scale, you need to setup alerts to proactively detect, notify, and remediate issues before it affects your customers. However, configuring alerts can be hard when you have a complex, dynamic environment with lots of moving […]
Protect Azure Virtual Machines using storage spaces direct with Azure Site Recovery
Storage spaces direct (S2D) lets you host a guest cluster on Microsoft Azure which is especially useful in scenarios where virtual machines (VMs) are hosting a critical application like SQL, Scale out file server, or SAP ASCS. You can learn more about clustering by reading the article, “Deploying laaS VM Guest Clusters in Microsoft Azure.” […]
Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics
Built-in machine learning (ML) models for anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics significantly reduces the complexity and costs associated with building and training machine learning models. This feature is now available for public preview worldwide both in the cloud and on IoT Edge. What is Azure Stream Analytics? Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed […]