Multi-member consortium support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.3.0

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Continuing our monthly release cadence for Azure Blockchain Workbench, we’re excited to announce the availability of version 1.3.0. You can either deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure Portal or upgrade your existing deployment to 1.3.0 using our upgrade script. This update includes the following improvements:...

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Respond to threats faster with Security Center’s Confidence Score

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Azure Security Center provides you with visibility across all your resources running in Azure and alerts you of potential or detected issues. The volume of alerts can be challenging for a security operations team to individually address. Due to the volume of alerts, security analysts have to prioritize...

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How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints

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HDInsight enterprise customers work with some of the most sensitive data in the world. They want to be able to lock down access to this data at the networking layer as well. However, while service endpoints have been available in Azure data sources, HDInsight customers couldn’t leverage this...

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Logic Apps, Flow connectors will make Automating Video Indexer simpler than ever

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Video Indexer recently released a new and improved Video Indexer V2 API. This RESTful API supports both server-to-server and client-to-server communication and enables Video Indexer users to integrate video and audio insights easily into their application logic, unlocking new experiences and monetization opportunities. To make the integration even...

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Azure Block Blob Storage Backup

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Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's massively scalable cloud object store. Blob Storage is ideal for storing any unstructured data such as images, documents and other file types. The data in Azure Blob Storage is always replicated to ensure durability and high availability. Azure Storage replication copies your data...

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Azure HDInsight Interactive Query: simplifying big data analytics architecture

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Traditional approach to fast interactive BI Deep analytical queries processed on Hadoop systems have traditionally been slow. MapReduce jobs or hive queries are used for heavy processing of large datasets, however, not suitable for the fast response time required by interactive BI usage. Faced with user dissatisfaction due...

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New customizations in Azure Migrate to support your cloud migration

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You can accelerate your cloud migration using intelligent migration assessment services like Azure Migrate. Azure Migrate is a generally available service, offered at no additional charge, that helps you plan your migration to Azure. Azure Migrate discovers servers in your on-premises environment and assesses each discovered server’s readiness...

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

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It has been said that Artificial Intelligence will define the next generation of software solutions. If you are even remotely involved with technology, you will almost certainly have heard the term with increasing regularity over the last few years. It is likely that you will also have heard...

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New Azure CosmosDB JavaScript SDK 2.0 now in public preview

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The Azure Cosmos DB team is excited to announce version 2.0 RC of the JavaScript SDK for SQL API, now in public preview! What is Azure Cosmos DB? Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service. It offers turnkey global distribution, guarantees single-digit millisecond latencies at...

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Azure HDInsight Interactive Query: Ten tools to analyze big data faster

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Customers use HDInsight Interactive Query (also called Hive LLAP, or Low Latency Analytical Processing) to query data stored in Azure storage & Azure Data Lake Storage in super-fast manner. Interactive query makes it easy for developers and data scientist to work with the big data using BI tools...

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