Tag: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudheer Sirivara. Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission. We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever. At IBC 2019, we’re delighted to share the latest innovations we’ve been working on and how they can help transform your media workflows. Read on to learn more, or join our product teams and partners at Hall 1 ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. I've been at the EARL Conference in London this week, and as always it's been inspiring to see so many examples of R being used in production at companies like Sainsbury's, BMW, Austria Post, PartnerRe, Royal Free Hospital, the BBC, the Financial Times, and many others. My own talk, A DevOps Process for Deploying R to Production, presented one process for automating the process of building and deploying R-based applications using Azure Pipelines and Azure Machine Learning Service. The talk at EARL wasn't recorded, but you can see the slides here, and also ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Outi Nyman. This blog post was co-authored by Ricky Brundritt, Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Maps. Azure Maps services continue to expand our support for Microsoft enterprise customers’ needs in Azure. And, we’ve been busy expanding our capabilities. Today we’re announcing Azure Maps is now available in Argentina, India, Morocco, and Pakistan. We have also launched a new Azure Maps data feedback site that is now in preview. In addition, we’re also introducing several enhancements that are available via our Representational state transfer (REST) services and Azure Maps web and Android SDKs. Here is a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The month of August was yet another busy one for the Power BI team. We continued to roll out new features and make updates across the stack. Here’s a quick recap of all the announcements in case you missed it: New capacity settings for Power BI Premium We started off by announcing five new settings for your Premium capacities in the admin portal. Now, you can set limits on “Max Offline Dataset Size” with the allowable range from 0.1 to 10 GB and even set limits on queries to prevent ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This blog post covers the latest updates for the Power BI Developer community. Don’t forget to check out our last developer blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Here is the list of updates for this month: Embedded analytics AUTOMATION & LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT Track Power BI content consumption with audit logs Query caching for embedded reports and dashboards EMBED CAPABILITIES Sort visuals using an API is now available Filters APIs now supports Top N filter type Power BI Visuals Platform About feature Come and meet us! AUTOMATION & LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mac Slocum. Attend the Strata Data Conference in New York, September 23-26 to learn how ML, AI, and data are converging. The Strata Data Conferences helped chronicle the birth of big data, as well as the emergence of data science, streaming, and machine learning (ML) as disruptive phenomena. Strata attracts the leading names in the fields of data management, data engineering, analytics, ML, and artificial intelligence (AI). For nearly a decade, it’s provided a venue for developers, data and ML engineers, data architects, data scientists, and others to acquire or hone skills, explore provocative ideas, and network ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mac Slocum. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, the Radar team has uncovered a growing wave of change in software development and architectural trends. Organizations are increasingly choosing the combination of cloud, containers, and orchestration to implement microservices as their directional architecture. The need to support business processes and customer expectations—and to have flexibility, adaptability, and scaling for new projects and for migrating legacy systems—has organizations embracing the interrelated technologies and approaches we call Next Architecture. In this report, we cover background, technology and business drivers, and key components that define the Next Architecture concept. Every company has a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Accenture and Avanade won the 2019 Microsoft Internet of Things Partner of the Year award this past spring. At the Microsoft Inspire partner conference in July, Brendan Mislin, Managing Director, Industry X.0 IoT Lead at Accenture, shared some insights and best practices that have helped this award-winning partner unlock the value of Azure IoT for our mutual customers. Figure 1 Petrofac, a leading oilfield services company, leverages Accenture’s Connected Construction solution Five of the best practices Mislin shared are below. For the complete discussion, view the interview. 1.    Expect IoT opportunities in all ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial cloud -- includes everything from Azure to Office 365 enterprise subscriptions to Dynamics 365 to LinkedIn services. After LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft it began moving its infrastructure to Azure. While moving LinkedIn to Azure could take some time, it demonstrates Microsoft Azure’s capabilities and ability to handle millions of transactions. Microsoft's strong enterprise heritage, software stack, and data center tools offer both familiarity ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. With each passing year, more and more developers are building cloud-native applications. As developers build more complex applications they are looking to innovators like Microsoft Azure and HashiCorp to reduce the complexity of building and operating these applications. HashiCorp and Azure have worked together on a myriad of innovations. Examples of this innovation include tools that connect cloud-native applications to legacy infrastructure and tools that secure and automate the continuous deployment of customer applications and infrastructure. Azure is deeply committed to being the best platform for open source software developers like HashiCorp to ... Read More