Tag: Microsoft

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In this episode of This is My Architecture, filmed in 2018 on the last day of re:Invent (a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community), FICO lead Software Engineer Sven Ahlfeld talks to AWS Solutions Architect Tom Jones about how the company uses a combination of AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions to architect an on-demand solution for fraud detection and anti-money laundering.When you think of FICO, you probably thing credit score. And that’s true: founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions–such as credit scoring–that have made credit more widely ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matthew Vogel. Throughout our Internet of Things (IoT) journey we’ve seen solutions evolve from device-centric models, to spatially-aware solutions that provide real-world context. Last year at Realcomm | IBcon, we announced Azure IoT’s vision for spatial intelligence, diving into scenarios that uniquely join IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and productivity tools. In the year since, we’ve progressed this vision by introducing new services designed to help enterprise customers across industries optimize the management of their spaces. Across Azure, Dynamics, and Office, Microsoft continues to accelerate results from a growing and diverse set of partners creating smart ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; 2019 is off to a great start! Join the Logicworks team at one of the many events we will be attending this year. 2019 Tech Summits Join Logicworks as we sponsor the following Tech Summits. Each event will give you the opportunity to meet Logicworks AWS certified engineers, network with other IT leaders, discover the latest IT trends, and learn the knowledge needed to make the best possible decisions on behalf of your organization. Make sure to sign up as soon as possible to make sure that you will have a spot as seating is ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; In the age of cloud, infrastructure has become a competitive differentiator. Companies that build scalable, repeatable, automated Azure clouds are able to get products to market faster and innovate with fewer risks. But many companies feel that this vision of innovation on the cloud is out of reach, mostly due to a lack of cloud expertise. In fact, 85% of IT executives say that greater cloud expertise would help them recoup the return on their cloud investment, and 71% believed their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. An Azure Managed ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle What is multi-cloud? Multi-cloud is the use of two or more cloud computing services, including any combination of public, private, and hybrid.  The end result is the capacity to orchestrate resources across multiple private or public cloud platforms that contain multiple cloud vendors, accounts, availability zones, or regions or premises. Why use multiple clouds? The three most important benefits of utilizing multiple clouds are: High availability – The multi-cloud provides protection for an organization’s data storage against threats. If a cloud is unavailable, other clouds remain online to run applications. Flexibility – ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; There are many tools out there to help you get organized. Project management software offers features of all kinds to assist you in planning your work. We’re focusing on a particular way of organizing tasks in this tutorial on how to use a Gantt chart. We’ll explain what a Gantt chart can do for you, then look at how things work on a couple of platforms. First, we’ll look at a simple example in Monday.com, which you can read about in our Monday.com review. Then, we’ll go through a more advanced example with TeamGantt, which ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Lena Hall. This is a keynote highlight from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Lena Hall is a senior software engineer and developer advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on large-scale distributed systems and modern architectures. Lena has more than 10 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system design, highly scalable and performant systems, big data analysis, data science, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Lachlan Evenson, Bridget Kromhout. This is a keynote from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. See other highlights from the event. This keynote was sponsored by Microsoft Azure. Article image: Network (source: Pixabay). Lachlan Evenson is a principal program manager on the Azure Containers team at Microsoft. He has spent the last two and a half years working with Kubernetes and enabling cloud native journeys. Lachie serves as a cloud native ambassador and TOC contributor and has deep operational knowledge of many cloud native projects. more Bridget Kromhout is a principal cloud ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Bridget Kromhout. This is a keynote highlight from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Time (source: Pixnio). Bridget Kromhout is a principal cloud developer advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if the cloud can be considered tangible). After 15 years as an operations engineer, Bridget traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure where they find unmatched security. While understanding cloud security is initially a concern to many, after digging in, customers often tell us the security posture they can set up within Azure is easier to implement and far more comprehensive than what they can provide for in other environments. Azure delivers multiple layers of security, from the secure foundation in our physical datacenters, to our operational practices, to engineering processes that follow industry standard Mitre guidelines ... Read More