Announcing Azure Monitor AIOps Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds

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We are happy to announce that Metric Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now available in public preview. Dynamic Thresholds are a significant enhancement to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts. With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced...

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Umanis lifts the hood on their AI implementation methodology

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Given the ever-increasing speed of change in technology, along with the variety of sectors and industries Umanis works in, they focused on building a methodology that could be standardized across AI implementations from project to project. This methodology follows an iterative cycle: assimilate, learn, and act, with the...

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Azure Stack IaaS – part six

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Pay for what you use In the virtualization days I used to pad all my requests for virtual machines (VM) to get the largest size possible. Since decisions and requests took time, I would ask for more than I required just so I wouldn’t have delays if I...

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Clean up files by built-in delete activity in Azure Data Factory

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Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a fully-managed data integration service in Azure that allows you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. In the journey of data integration process, you will need to periodically clean up files from the on-premises or the cloud...

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Building serverless microservices in Azure - sample architecture

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Distributed applications take full advantage of living in the cloud to run globally, avoid bottlenecks, and always be available for users worldwide. This not only requires the right infrastructure to be deployed in, but also support for the decoupled architecture an application with these characteristics versus the traditional...

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Expanded Jobs functionality in Azure IoT Central

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Since announcing the release of our Jobs feature during the Azure IoT Central general availability launch, we are excited to share how we are working to improve your device management workflow through additional jobs functionalities. Today, you are now able to copy an existing job you’ve created, save...

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Azure Stack IaaS – part five

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Self-service is core to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Back in the virtualization days, you had to wait for someone to create a VLAN for you, carve out a LUN, and find space on a host. If Microsoft Azure ran that way, we would have needed to hire more and more...

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Azure Stack IaaS – part four

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Protect your stuff In this post, we’ll cover the concepts and best practices to protect your IaaS virtual machines (VMs) on Azure Stack. Protecting your IaaS virtual machine based applications Azure Stack is an extension of Azure that lets you deliver IaaS Azure services from your organization’s datacenter....

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Azure Stack IaaS – part three

Foundation of Azure Stack IaaS Remember back in the virtualization days when you had to pick a host for your virtual machine? Some of my business units could tell by the naming convention the make and manufacturer of the hardware. Using this knowledge, they’d fill up the better...

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Azure Stack laaS – part two

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Start with what you already have Every organization has a unique journey to the cloud. This journey is based on the organization’s history, business specifics, culture, and maybe most importantly, their starting point. While it can be hard for some to say goodbye to their current virtualization environment...

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Azure Stack IaaS – part one

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Azure Stack at its core is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform When we discuss Azure Stack with our customers, they see the value in Azure Stack providing cloud-native capabilities to their datacenters. They see the opportunity to modernize their apps and address the unique solutions Azure Stack can deliver,...

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