Azure cloud business value for retail and consumer goods explained

For brick and mortar retailers, the world has been overturned. Online retailers have been demolishing their market share and icons of commerce are struggling. But what helped online retailers can help the offline. The cloud can also be used by brick and mortar retailers. In fact, the brick...

Continue reading

Orchestrating production-grade workloads with Azure Kubernetes Service

• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

In this blog post, I will dig into the top scenarios that Azure customers are building on Azure Kubernetes Service. After that, we will blow out the candles and have some cake. Lift and shift to containers Organizations typically want to move to the cloud quickly and it...

Continue reading

Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux

Lately there have been a whole lot of changes to Java and its vibrant communities. Now shared between Oracle for Java SE and Eclipse Foundation for Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE), Java continues to be the leading programming language by developers and enterprises. As a matter of fact,...

Continue reading

New recommendations in Azure Advisor

• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

Azure Advisor is a free service that analyzes your Azure usage and provides recommendations on how you can optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security, and improve reliability. We are excited to announce that we have added several new Azure Advisor recommendations to help...

Continue reading

Foretell and prevent downtime with predictive maintenance

• 
• 

PrevNext

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...

Continue reading

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...

Continue reading

Location and Maps in Azure IoT Central powered by Azure Maps

• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly adding features and true to the promise of SaaS applications, you can just start using new...

Continue reading

Spoken Language Identification in Video Indexer

• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

We are excited to share that Video Indexer has a new capability, Spoken Language Identification (LID)! A common ask from our customers has been to enable indexing of videos or batches of videos, without manually providing their language. This is especially important for batch uploads. To support this,...

Continue reading

Announcing public preview of Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

Networking trends such as SDWAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) can improve performance by using path selection polices at the branch offices to send Internet-bound traffic directly to the cloud eliminating the backhaul to select breakout points. This traffic can quickly reach Microsoft’s global backbone network with intelligent routing...

Continue reading

Securing the connection between Power BI and Azure SQL Database

• 
• 
• 
• 

PrevNext

How can you connect to Azure SQL Database from the Power BI service in a secure fashion? The easiest way to limit access to the database is to select the “allow access to Azure Services” option (Figure1). This can be found in the database server options in the...

Continue reading