Tag: Azure

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Frederick Kagan and Sébastien Heymann at GraphConnect New York in October 2018.Presentation SummaryThe American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is an independently-funded nonprofit that uses unclassified information to understand ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Europe to produce forecasts and policy recommendations.Like the intelligence community, and almost any large-scale business analysis team, the nonprofit had to solve problem of munging all their data together into a single interface. They found their solution with the combined power of Neo4j and Linkurious, even though they encountered some ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Taylor Brown. Kubernetes is taking the app development world by storm. Earlier this month, we shared that the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was the fastest growing compute service in Azure’s history. Customers like Siemens Healthineers, Finastra, Maersk, and Hafslund are realizing the benefits of using AKS to easily deploy, manage and scale applications without getting into the toil of maintaining infrastructures.  As the community and adoption grows, Kubernetes itself is evolving, adding more enterprise-friendly features and extending to more scenarios.  The release of production-level support for Windows Server containers is a true testament to the evolution. Today, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Morgan Oslake. Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. To help address these challenges, we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure SQL Database serverless. SQL Database serverless (preview) is a new compute tier that optimizes price-performance and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage. Line-of-business applications, dev/test databases, content management and e-commerce systems are just some examples across a range of applications that often fit the usage pattern ideal for SQL ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. Bluefish Editor on Windows Server 2016: Apps4Rent helps you deploy Bluefish Editor on Azure. Bluefish, a free software editor with advanced tools for building dynamic websites, is targeted as a middle path between simple editors and fully integrated development environments. BOSH Stemcell for Windows Server 2019: This offer from Pivotal Software provides Windows Server 2019-based Stemcell for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. Corda Opensource VM: R3’s Corda is an open-source blockchain platform that removes costly friction in business transactions by enabling institutions to transact directly using smart contracts and ensures privacy and security ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yochay Kiriaty. Conversational experiences have become the norm, whether you’re looking to track a package or to find out a store’s hours of operation. At Microsoft Build 2019, we highlighted a few customers who are building such conversational experiences using the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Bot Service to transform their customer experience. As users become more familiar with bots and virtual assistants, they will invariably expect more from their conversational experiences. For this reason, Bot Framework SDK and tools are designed to help developers be more productive in building conversational AI solutions. Here are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Parul Matah. This post is part of a 2-part series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making for them. In part 1, we explored the challenges that led the Microsoft 365 usage analytics team to take action, the architecture of the new solution, and migration of the production workload. In this post, we’ll examine additional implementation details and the outcomes resulting from the team’s efforts. Finding the right partition key—a critical design decision After moving to Azure Cosmos DB, the team revisited how data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Parul Matah. This post is part of a 2-part series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real-world needs, and the difference it’s making for them. In this first post we explore the challenges that led the Microsoft 365 usage analytics team to take action, the architecture of the new solution, and migration of the production workload. In part 2, we’ll examine additional implementation details and the outcomes resulting from the team’s efforts. The challenge: Understanding the behavior of more than 150 million active users Office 365 is a flagship service within ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. What is Amazon EKS? Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that allows you to easily run Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without the pain point of having to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. This service is the AWS equivalent of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Understanding Kubernetes’ capabilities can be difficult at a first glance. At a high level, Kubernetes consists of two major components- a cluster of ‘worker nodes’ that run your containers and the ‘control plane’ ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This is the 4th and last part in the series Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQLCloud Solutions. At the time of this writing, Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL was at version 10.7, newer than the two contenders: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL at version 10.6and Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL at version 9.6. Microsoft decided to run Azure PostgreSQLon Windows: postgres=> select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------ PostgreSQL 10.7, compiled by Visual C++ build 1800, 64-bit (1 row) For this particular test that didn’t work out too well, and I will hazard to guess that Microsoft is well aware of the limitations, the reason why under ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Leon Welicki. This month is packed with updates on the Azure portal, including enhancements to the user experience, resource configuration, management tools and more. Sign in to the Azure portal now and see for yourself everything that’s new. Download the Azure mobile app to stay connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Here’s the list of May updates to the Azure portal: User experience IaaS Storage Management tools Create your first cloud project with confidence Security Center Site Recovery Intune Let’s look at each of these updates in greater detail. User experience Improvements to the ... Read More