This post was authored by Jason Haley, Microsoft Azure MVP. Recently, I was at Boston Code Camp catching up with some old friends and looking to learn about containers or anything that could help me in my current project of migrating a microservices application to run in containers. I was speaking with one friend who […]
Get video insights in (even) more languages!
For those of you who might not have tried it yet, Video Indexer is a cloud application and platform built upon media AI technologies to make it easier to extract insights from video and audio files. As a starting point for extracting the textual part of the insights, the solution creates a transcript based on […]
How tech is moving the insurance industry to be more customer-focused
Insurers need to become the home page for their customers. A home page is a source of meaningful, targeted and useful content that the customer seeks out. Technology can now deliver innovative solutions directly to insurance customers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are delivering targeted content continually from multiple sources, including data generated […]
Autocomplete in Azure Search now in public preview
Today, we are happy to announce public preview support for autocomplete in Azure Search, one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Autocomplete, also called “type-ahead search”, can enhance the search experience by finding potential terms in the index that match the partial term being written by the user. An example of similar functionality is […]
Augmented Reality becomes mainstream in Manufacturing, changes the face of the industry
As it’s often the case with new technologies, Augmented Reality (and its more evolved sibling – Mixed Reality) have attracted a lot of excitement in the tech world and sparked the imaginations of many entrepreneurs. This excitement is easy to understand. This is, after all, a technology that lets us blend the digital with the […]
A closer look at Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
On June 27, 2018 we announced the preview of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 the only data lake designed specifically for enterprises to run large scale analytics workloads in the cloud. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 takes core capabilities from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 such as a Hadoop compatible file system, Azure Active Directory […]
Automatic device management, module identity, and module twin are now generally available
Last month, we released Azure IoT Hub automatic device management, and module identity and module twins. Each of these features enable scenarios to enhance device management capabilities within your IoT application built on Azure IoT Hub. Today, we are excited to announce that they are generally available with the same great support you’ve come to […]
Use Azure Active Directory with Spring Security 5.0 for OAuth 2.0
We are excited to announce that Spring Starter for Azure Active Directory (AD) is now integrated with Spring Security 5.0. It offers you an easy way to build OAuth2.0 authentication and authorization flow for your Java apps in the cloud, supporting both implicit and authorization code grant types. With only a few lines of configuration, […]
Azure Elastic Database jobs is now in public preview
We are excited to announce the availability of a new, significantly upgraded public preview release of Azure Elastic Database jobs. Elastic Database jobs is now a fully Azure-hosted service. Unlike the earlier, customer-hosted and managed version of Elastic Database jobs, this version is an integral part of Azure with no additional services or components to […]
Enterprises get deeper insights with Hadoop and Spark updates on Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight is one of the most popular services amongst enterprise for open source Hadoop & Spark analytics on Azure. With the plus 50 percent price cut on HDInsight, customers moving to the cloud are reaping more savings than ever. “PROS is a pioneer in using machine learning to give companies an accurate and profitable […]