Tag: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Manoj Swaminathan. Disruptions in global supply chains have significantly increased over the last decade, fueled by a myriad of triggers ranging from trade wars, demand surges from social marketing, natural disasters, and most recently, the recent COVID-19 pandemic.Updates to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in the 2020 release wave 1 help organizations proactively transform every aspect of manufacturing and supply chain operations to reduce disruptions. These new and updated capabilities drive automation and reduce downtime using IoT and mixed reality, and provide the agility to re-plan production in real time to dynamically changing ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Introduction and Executive Summary DevOps and the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline are revolutionizing application development, test, and cloud delivery, enabling developers to write the application code and define the cloud infrastructure. But where is cloud security?  Unfortunately, to date, security and compliance practices have been mainly reactive, as teams scramble to catch cloud infrastructure misconfigurations, risks, and compliance violations after provisioning or creation (i.e., “at runtime”).  Relying on runtime detection increases security and compliance risks significantly. It also drives down productivity, as developers have to spend their time addressing issues in the wrong place ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Enterprises are generating large volumes of data that originate from a variety of source systems. In some cases, businesses are drawing from over 400 different data sources, creating a burdensome overhead of data consolidation, storage, and preparation. While some organizations choose on-premises databases or data warehouse appliances, many modern businesses are opting for cloud solutions. Where a cloud data warehouse was once sufficient, more and more enterprises are looking for even greater storage capabilities and more flexibility of data formats, often provided by a data lake.  Microsoft Azure Synapse: An all-encompassing data warehousing platform Microsoft ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Vinod Kurpad. Incremental enrichment is a new feature of Azure Cognitive Search that brings a declarative approach to indexing your data. When incremental enrichment is turned on, document enrichment is performed at the least cost, even as your skills continue to evolve. Indexers in Azure Cognitive Search add documents to your search index from a data source. Indexers track updates to the documents in your data sources and update the index with the new or updated documents from the data source. Incremental enrichment is a new feature that extends change tracking from document changes in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . With the ongoing concerns of COVID-19, it’s fair to say business hasn’t been as usual for the Power BI team. All of us have been working from home for over a month now and following strict social distancing guidelines to prevent the spread of this outbreak. We hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy in these unprecedented times. Our thoughts are with those affected and the medical professionals tirelessly working to help those in need. On the brighter side, we’re continuing to roll out features as per ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Fred Wurden. There’s no question that organizations today are being disrupted in their industry. In a previous blog post, I shared that such disruption often accelerates organizations’ decisions to move to the cloud. When these organizations migrate to the cloud, Windows workloads are often critical to their business and these workloads require a performant, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. Customers tell us that reducing risk, building cloud expertise, and lowering costs are important factors when choosing that infrastructure.Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, a comprehensive program ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Olivia Burgess. From agriculture to healthcare, IoT unlocks opportunity across every industry, delivering profound returns, such as increased productivity and efficiency, reduced costs, and even new business models. And with a projected 41.6 billion IoT connected devices by 2025, momentum continues to build. While IoT creates new opportunities, it also brings new cybersecurity challenges that could potentially result in stolen IP, loss of brand trust, downtime, and privacy breaches. In fact, 97 percent of enterprises rightfully call out security as a key concern when adopting IoT. But when organizations have a reliable foundation of security ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; GeForce Now is all the rage right now, with Nvidia releasing it on the heels of Google Stadia with a long list of PC games to play. Although it easily sits among the best cloud gaming services, it’s not perfect, falling short when it comes to ease of use and game support, as you can read in our GeForce Now review. Project xCloud, Microsoft’s answer to services like Stadia and GeForce Now, has problems of its own, including limited coverage and game support. However, it’s not fully released yet, and the currently available features show ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. Background Is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy feasible for SMEs? (Small to Medium Enterprises)? In this post, we present a pragmatic approach for SMEs to consider AI (at low cost) To provide some context - What is AI? - We use the following definitions Machine Learning means learning from data Deep learning is representation learning or automatic feature detection i.e.  learning the structure of the data in addition to learning from the data itself Artificial Intelligence are machines that can reason – currently mostly based on deep learning We ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More