Tag: Azure

Feed: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Author: Arvind Shyamsundar. Team members from Microsoft AzureCAT (a.k.a. DataCAT / SQLCAT) will be presenting a full-day pre-conference on “Building A Scalable Data Architecture In Azure” at the upcoming DPS 2018 conference in Bengaluru, India. We are very excited to be part of the 4th edition of Asia’s largest Microsoft data-focused conference, with over 1000 attendees expected overall. The motivation for this full-day pre-conference training is to share with attendees typical scenarios and considerations in architecting and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure. Whether you are migrating an existing on-premises data pipeline, or implementing a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Miri Landau. Securing your resources is important, which is why we’ve made it even simpler for you to do. Azure Security Center is available in public preview in the subscription experience. In just a few clicks, you can enable Security Center and quickly assess the security state of your resources, get actionable recommendations, and mitigate risks. Azure Security Center gives you visibility into your security state across hybrid cloud workloads, gives you adaptive protections to reduce your exposure to attacks, and intelligent threat detection that helps you keep pace with rapidly evolving attacks.The newly added ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Chacko Daniel. Azure Service Fabric is a highly-scalable distributed systems platform to build and manage scalable microservices and container-based applications for Windows and Linux. Service Fabric is a foundational technology powering core Azure infrastructure, as well as other Microsoft cloud services such as Skype for Business, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, and many more. At Build 2018, we shared the Service Fabric product roadmap and demonstrated Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a fully-managed service that enables developers to deploy and operate containerized applications without having to manage VMs, storage or networking configuration, while ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Highlights New Azure innovation advances customer success for the cloud- and AI-powered future - In preparation for Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas this week (where partners and Microsoft meet to connect, learn, and collaborate to accelerate the digital transformation and success of our customers), Jason Zander (Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure) highlighted new offers and technologies that will help organizations navigate their own digital transformation and build the critical foundations for cloud and AI. He showcases momentum from businesses and partners who are investing in intelligent tech from the cloud to the edge ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yitao Dong. We are pleased to announce that Spring Data Gremlin is now available on Maven Central and source code on GitHub. This project provides Spring Data support for Graph databases that use Gremlin as a traversal language. For Azure users, it provides a delightful experience to interact with Azure Cosmos DB using Graph API. Java developers can now use Spring annotations to map with database entities, such as Vertex and Edge. It also allows developers to create their own database queries based on Spring Data Repository. Key features Spring Data Gremlin supports annotation-oriented programming ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. According to a recent IDG survey, about 70% of companies have at least one application in the cloud. An additional 43% want to migrate most, or all, of their data workloads and analytics capabilities to the cloud over the next few years. Cloud adoption is growing due to pressure to increase agility and responsiveness to market changes, shrink data center footprints, adapt to changing analytics needs, and move IT costs from CapEx to OpEx.However, cloud migration is often hindered by concerns about security and the lack of IT staff with experience to manage a cloud environment. As ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Mike Kelly. This article originally appeared on InfoWorld Enterprises are embracing cloud platforms, often having more than one provider to best suit the given application. But how to monitor across this hybrid environment? Most IT professionals would agree that cloud computing is more about a paradigm than a physical displacement of computing resources. The “utility” paradigm is transformational by virtue of on-demand, elastic resources. But unlike being stuck with just a single local cable provider, the range of choice in cloud computing options also provides selectivity and customization best suited for the delivery of individual applications ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Saumitra Buragohain. We’re excited to announce the long-awaited release of Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0.0. HDP 3.0 is faster, smarter, hybrid, bigger, trusted and real-time database. We encourage you to read our blog that announced HDP 3.0. You can also view our keynote presentation from DataWorks Summit, where we demoed an autonomous car (1/10 scale), trained with HDP 3.0 technologies. We also want to thank  our current and prospective customers and partners for signing up for the HDP 3.0 Early Access and we are encouraged by the huge interest- now, you can use the HDP ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; Another week, another data breach.  In the last two weeks, news broke that both Adidas and Macy’s suffered data breaches.    In a letter leaked to DataBreaches.net, Macy’s wrote to affected customers that “the attacker used valid user credentials (usernames and passwords) to login to some online profiles … we believe valid login credentials were stolen from another company and/or sourced from the dark web.” Adidas came clean to its customers about their data breach, and although details at this time are scarce, what is known is that “an unauthorized party” breached Adidas’ server; managing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Charlotte Yarkoni. Next week in Last Vegas, we will be meeting with thousands of partners from all over the world at Microsoft Inspire. The event is a forum to reinforce our commitment to making partner business opportunities the centerpiece of our investments. We continue to extend our cloud marketplace, Azure Marketplace and AppSource, capabilities to make it the best place for partners of any type to be discovered, evaluated, and ultimately have their offerings purchased and deployed by our customer base. The event also gives us the opportunity to showcase the investments we’re making to ... Read More