Tag: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Simplifying industrial IoT device connectivity has been top of mind for many of us at Microsoft. Recently we dramatically expanded our ability to support faster operational technology (OT) to cloud connectivity for up to 80 percent of all industrial equipment as part of our collaboration with key players in our partner ecosystem. This is big news—and something that everyone working on or selling IoT solutions should know as many companies struggle with connectivity implementation. Simply said, connecting existing industrial assets to the cloud just got a lot easier and you’ll save thousands of ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Elaine Rosenberg. Hello, everyone! We hope that some of you were able to attend the hands-on training sessions that the developer relations team members conducted last week. We had a great turnout for these sessions, which were recorded. This week, we feature Bryant Avey, who has worked on many projects that use Neo4j, particularly around integration with business processes. Kineviz has a new portal where you can use GraphXR for visualization of your data without needing to install anything. Sixing Huang, a data scientist, describes how he explored the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Blank-Edelman. Here at Microsoft, we give a lot of advice. We’d really like to help you thrive on our platform. Reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency—we know that they are not easy to tackle when it comes to your cloud workloads. This is where the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework comes into the picture. Here’s how we describe it: The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload. The framework consists of five pillars of architecture excellence: cost optimization, operational ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gopikrishna Kannan. This post was co-authored by Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Today, we are announcing new Azure Firewall capabilities as well as updates for August 2021. Azure Firewall supports US West 3, Jio India West, and Brazil Southeast. Auto-generated self-signed certificates for Azure Firewall Premium SKU. Secure Hub now supports Availability Zones. Deploy Azure Firewall without public IP in Forced Tunnel mode. Configure pre-existing Azure Firewalls in Force Tunnel mode using stop or start commands. Azure Firewall regional expansion We expanded Azure Firewall service to three new public regions including US ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Aung Oo. As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Azure Disk Storage provides maximum resiliency for all workloads with an industry-leading zero percent annual failure rate and single-instance service-level agreements (SLA) for all disk types, including a best-in-class single-instance SLA of 99.9 percent availability for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Premium SSD or Azure Ultra Disk Storage. Today, we continue our investments to further improve the reliability of our infrastructure with the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bharat GHode. Azure DevOps is the successor to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and is said to be its advanced version. It is a complete suite of software development tools that are being used on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with currently integrated development environments (IDEs) and helps teams to develop and deploy cross-functional software. It provides a set of tools and services with which you can easily manage the planning and development of your software projects through testing and deployment. Azure DevOps practices enable IT departments to augment quality, decrease cycle times, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Julia Liuson. In 2019, Microsoft and Pivotal (now VMware) announced Azure Spring Cloud, a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications. We set out to solve many of the common challenges enterprise developers face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. The service manages dynamic scaling, security patching, out-of-the-box instrumentation for monitoring, and more so developers can focus on their apps. Since then, we’ve worked with many customers including Kroger, Swiss Re, Raley’s, and Digital Realty to help them adopt the service. We also learned that some customers need more. Many are running thousands of Spring Boot applications ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management and Billing can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Cindy Na. Data is one of your most strategic assets. But to take full advantage of it, you need to know what data you have, where it came from, and what regulatory requirements affect it. In short, you need a solution that consolidates all of your data and simplifies your ability to analyze it. Azure Purview is that solution. This unified data governance solution gives you a holistic, up-to-date map of all your on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. By working with your entire data estate, Azure Purview enables you to mine ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Azure DevOps is a highly flexible software development and deployment toolchain. It integrates closely with many other related Azure services, and its automation features are customizable to an almost limitless degree.Matillion ETL is a cloud-native data integration platform, which helps transform businesses by providing fast and scalable insights. Matillion ETL’s DevOps artifacts are source code and configuration files, and they are accessible through a sophisticated REST API.Great flexibility in both platforms means it’s possible to integrate Matillion ETL with Azure DevOps in many different ways. It can be difficult to decide how best to proceed! ... Read More