Tag: Azure

Feed: Teradata Blog. I’m pleased to announce that Teradata IntelliCloud – our as-a-service offering for analytics at scale – has been successfully vetted for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR readiness for IntelliCloud applies to all our as-a-service deployment options: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Teradata Cloud (which is Teradata infrastructure in Teradata data centers). What exactly is GDPR, you ask? According to the internet’s most popular resource for crowd-sourced information (Wikipedia), GDPR is a regulation in European Union (EU) law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. I had a great time at the EARL Conference in London last week, and as always came away invigorated by all of the applications of R that were presented there. I'll do a full writeup of the conference later this week, but in the meantime I wanted to share the materials from my own presentation there, "Not Hotdog: Image Recognition with R and the Custom Vision API". I've embedded the slides below: In the presentation, I showed how easy it is to build a Shiny app to perform image recognition with the Custom ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jenny Jiang. We are happy to announce that HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) now leverage VS Code built-in user settings and workspace settings to manage HDInsight clusters and Spark job submissions. With this feature, you can manage your linked clusters and set your preferred Azure environment with VS Code user settings. You can also set your default cluster and manage your job submission configurations via VS Code workspace settings. HDInsight Tools for VS Code can access HDInsight clusters in Azure regions worldwide. To grant more flexible access to HDInsight clusters, you can  ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Oren Parag. This post was co-authored by Tiander Turpijn, Senior Program Manager. Securing your Azure workloads has become easier with the release of Azure Security Center (ASC) official PowerShell Module! Many organizations are looking to automate more tasks, as manual work is prone to human error and creates a potential for duplicative work. The need for automation is especially prevalent when it comes to large scale deployments that involve dozens of subscriptions with hundreds and thousands of resources – all of which must be secured from the beginning. To streamline the security aspects of the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Pui Chee Chan. Last year at Jenkins World, we announced Jenkins on Azure support for Kubernetes. We shipped the Azure Container Agent which allows you to scale out to Azure and run a Jenkins Agent on Azure Container Instances (ACI) and/or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Using the Kubernetes Continuous Deploy or Deploy to Azure Container Services (AKS) plugins, you can deploy containers to Kubernetes. Back in April, we published a blog post in Kubernetes.io sharing with the community how to achieve Blue/Green deployment to Azure Container Services (AKS). Some questions remained to be answered though: ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; An organization that has transitioned to a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or any combination thereof should immediately be thinking about the configuration of cloud services as a key element to security. Many IT leaders and professionals make the mistake of approaching security in the cloud the same way they approached security in a traditional data center. However, in the software-defined world of public cloud, there is an added wrinkle.  Without a holistic approach to security which includes a view of configuration, you can easily open yourself up ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Cheng Wei. We are excited to host you all at this year’s Ignite conference. The Azure Stack team has put together a list of sessions along with a pre-day event to ensure that you will enhance your skills on Microsoft’s hybrid cloud solution and get the most out of this year’s conference. We have an agenda that is tailored for developers who use Azure Stack to develop innovative hybrid solutions using services on Azure Stack and Azure, as well as operators who are responsible for the operations, security, and resiliency of Azure Stack itself. Whether ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Welcome to Azure DevOps The big news last week was the introduction of Azure DevOps, which represents the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Azure DevOps is a set of five new services that can be used together as a unified product, independently as stand-alone services or in any combination: Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts. Azure Pipelines is a fully-managed CI/CD service that enables developers to continuously build, test, and deploy any type of app, to any platform or cloud, which is available with free, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Epling. With the introduction of Azure DevOps, we’re offering developers a new Git service called Azure Repos. It has unlimited free private repositories with collaborative code reviews, advanced file management, code search, and branch policies to ensure high quality code. Azure Repos is great for small projects as well as large organizations that need native AAD support and advanced policies. Collaborative code reviews with pull requests Code reviews are one of the best ways to improve the overall quality of your code base and increase shared knowledge across your team. Discussions are the heart ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. A few years back I wrote a blog on setting up a Big Data Cluster on the laptop.  This time it's about setting up a K8S Cluster on the laptop. There are a few Zero-Installation K8S setup which can be run in the browser like Katakoda Kubernetes, Play with Kubernetes and K8S can also be run in Cloud (AWS EKS, Google GKE and Azure AKS). So, why install K8S Cluster on the Laptop? Here a few reasons I can think of.It's absolutely free Will get comfortable with the K8S administration concepts Will know ... Read More