Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. Today we are excited to announce the release of Actian Avalanche on Microsoft Azure. Azure is growing significantly as a platform in the enterprise space and becoming the de facto choice for retail analytics. Hence, making Actian Avalanche available on Microsoft Azure has been a priority for us.With this release, Actian Avalanche is now available on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and on-premises, delivering on our hybrid and multi-cloud vision. We have added new features to this release, like independent scaling of compute and storage resources. This is particularly appealing to those customers who have large amounts ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asir Selvasingh. Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments. Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Now you can easily and automatically setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint setups running on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a service that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature adds automatic discovery of Active Directory and SharePoint workloads, determines their underlying EC2 resources and sets up the metrics, telemetry and logs for monitoring their health and wellness. With the new support for Active Directory and SharePoint customers now have an simple path for setting up and managing ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this blog to briefly explain what they are and how they may be useful to you. To clear up a lot of confusion, despite the name, these are not clouds they are separate for Azure. Rather, they use the Azure cloud along with existing tools and products customized for a specific industry and placed within the Azure cloud (think “add-ons”). These industry clouds package together ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. This blog post has been co-authored by Charlie Lagervik, Principal Program Manager. Consumers today demand flexibility and convenience in how they purchase everything from groceries to home goods. In addition to shopping online, they are increasingly using mobile devices and other digital services to make in-store shopping more efficient and convenient. In response, retailers are striving to reimagine their physical store footprints to drive new and improved shopping experiences. Leading retailers are rapidly developing new solutions to deliver a retail experience that drives loyalty, both online and in stores. Common challenges to implementing ... Read More

Feed: Planet NoSQL. Author: Keshav Murthy. A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.                 William Strunk Jr., Elements of StyleIn the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits and trade-offs for data infrastructure while designing modern applications. He has given an example architecture for a data system that combines several components. I used this example for the article Example Architectures for Data-Intensive Applications. That article explored just the Couchbase features and functions.A recent twitter thread talked about how AWS ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today AWS announced the ability to launch Microsoft Windows Server instances up to 65% faster on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers can flag any Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Microsoft Windows Server to launch faster. Once flagged, every instance launched from the AMI will automatically launch faster. Microsoft Windows Server OS launch times can be a source of costly delays while provisioning resources for mission critical workloads and recovery processes. By launching Microsoft Windows instances faster, the new functionality helps in timely provisioning of instances at scale. Whether you run spikey workloads, need faster system recovery ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Launch Wizard now creates an AWS Service Catalog product when the SQL Server deployment is complete. You can then use the AWS Service Catalog product for repeated SQL Server deployments on EC2. This feature simplifies your subsequent SQL Server deployments, saves time by reusing associated configuration scripts, and makes the integration with your existing DevOps tools easier. AWS Launch Wizard enables you to easily size, configure, and deploy SQL Server workloads on EC2. You can enable the Service Catalog integration by selecting a check box and entering your S3 bucket location on the Launch Wizard console ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Briana Ullman. This article was co-written by Nick Johnson, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Partnership. Check out his blog profile for more information. As employees continue to adapt to the reality of remote work — collaborating with teams near and far — it is vital that organizations have the right collaboration and productivity tools at their fingertips to support teams remotely. With over 250 million monthly active users, Microsoft Teams has become the collaboration tool of choice for thousands of organizations, changing the way meetings are conducted and how teams access the documents and data that support ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Since 2020, Amazon Redshift has supported multi-factor authentication (MFA) to any SAML 2.0 compliant identity provider (IdP) in our JDBC and ODBC drivers. You can map the IdP user identity and group memberships in order to control authorization for database objects in Amazon Redshift. This simplifies administration by enabling you to manage user access in a central location, reducing the overhead of creating and maintaining users in the database in conjunction with the IdP. Recently, we helped a customer who was building their data warehouse on Amazon Redshift and had the requirement of using Microsoft ... Read More