Azure Media Services announces support for AAD and deprecation of ACS authentication

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This month we are announcing the release of support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication in Azure Media Services. Customers of our REST API and .NET client libraries can now use AAD authentication to authorize requests. In addition, we are releasing a new management blade in the Azure...

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Hardening Azure Analysis Services with the new firewall capability

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Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) is designed with security in mind and takes advantage of the security features available on the Azure platform. For example, integration with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides a solid foundation for access control. Any user creating, managing, or connecting to an Azure...

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Azure HDInsight Performance Benchmarking: Interactive Query, Spark and Presto

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Fast SQL query processing at scale is often a key consideration for our customers. In this blog post we compare HDInsight Interactive Query, Spark, and Presto using the industry standard TPCDS benchmarks. These benchmarks are run using out of the box default HDInsight configurations, with no special optimizations....

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Bring your own vocabulary to Microsoft Video Indexer

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Self-service customization for speech recognition Video Indexer (VI) now supports industry and business specific customization for automatic speech recognition (ASR) through integration with the Microsoft Custom Speech Service! ASR is an important audio analysis feature in Video Indexer. Speech recognition is artificial intelligence at its best, mimicking the...

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Azure HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics is now generally available

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I am excited to announce the general availability of HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics. Azure HDInsight is a fully managed cloud service for customers to do analytics at scale using the most popular open-source engines such as Hadoop, Hive/LLAP, Presto, Spark, Kafka, Storm, HBase etc. Thousands of...

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General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V

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I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V. This tool helps VMware and Hyper-V enterprise customers to understand their on-premises networking requirements, Microsoft Azure compute and storage requirements for successful Azure Site Recovery replication, and test...

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Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding

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Microsoft brings the latest advanced chatbot capabilities to developers' fingertips, allowing them to create apps that see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret users’ needs -- using natural communication styles and methods. Today, we’re excited to announce we’re making generally available Microsoft Cognitive Services Language Understanding service (LUIS) and...

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