We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From June 16 to 30, 22 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual Machines Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance-BYOL: Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance provides access to engineering Software-as-a-Service, allowing companies to expand computer-aided engineering capacity. […]
IoT: the catalyst for better risk management in insurance
Thought leader Matteo Carbone has titled his book All the Insurance Players Will Be Insurtech. He means that insurance companies that embrace digital transformation and technologies will lead the industry. Those technologies include the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Big Data. Carbone believes that the use of new technologies […]
Accelerated and Flexible Restore Points with SQL Data Warehouse
We are thrilled to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) has released accelerated and flexible restore points for fast data recovery. SQL DW is a fully managed and secure analytics platform for the enterprise, optimized for running complex queries fast across petabytes of data. The ability to quickly restore a data warehouse offers customers […]
Azure Marketplace June container offers
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In June, 42 container offers from Bitnami successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: ACME Solver Container Image: ACME Solver is part of the Cert Manager project. It will periodically ensure certificates are valid and up to date, and […]
Speech services July 2018 update
A lot has happened since we announced that Speech services is now in preview, we have released the Cognitive Services Speech SDK June 2018 update. Today, we are excited to announce that we have just released the 0.5.0 version of the Speech SDK. With this update, we have added support for UWP (on Windows version […]
Foretell and prevent downtime with predictive maintenance
The story of predictive maintenance (PdM) starts back in the 1990s. Technologies began to arrive that sense the world in new ways: ultrasound, infrared, thermal, vibration, to name a few. However, until recently the technology has not been available to make predictive maintenance a reality. But now, with advances in cloud storage, machine learning, edge […]
Intelligent Healthcare with Azure Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) technology
Sensitive health data processed by hospitals and insurers is under constant attack from malicious actors who try to gain access to health care systems with the goal to steal or extort personal health information. Change Healthcare has implemented a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) solution based on Microsoft Azure Cloud services and introduces Intelligent Healthcare […]
Blockchain as a tool for anti-fraud
Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. In 2016, healthcare costs in the US are estimated at nearly 18 percent of the GDP! Healthcare is becoming less affordable worldwide, and a serious chasm is widening between those that can afford healthcare and those that cannot. There are many factors driving the high cost of healthcare, one of them […]
Announcing the Azure Cloud Shell editor in collaboration with Visual Studio Code
Last year at the //Build conference we launched the Azure Cloud Shell in the Azure portal, providing our users with a cloud-native command-line environment from any device, anywhere in the world. Over the last year, we've seen incredible adoption, with thousands of users logging in every day. We've added some incredible integrations that make Cloud […]
Globally replicated data lakes with LiveData using WANdisco on Azure
The recent announcement of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview and its support on Azure HDInsight is already leading partners to innovate at a global scale. WANdisco enables globally replicated data lakes on Azure for analytics over the freshest data. This blog explains how. The modern business landscape is ruled by data. Analytics and AI […]