Tag: Updates

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anoob Backer. Today StorSimple Virtual Array is available exclusively for Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers. To leverage the StorSimple Virtual Array hybrid cloud offering, we are now expanding this solution to customers who are on MSDN, Pay-as-you-go, and other subscriptions. For more details, please visit StorSimple Solution Pricing. With the flexible pay-as-you-go subscription, StorSimple Virtual Array can be used by Small and Medium Business (SMB) owners. MSDN subscribers can now run POCs or development and testing workloads. In all these cases, you can configure StorSimple Virtual Array as a file server (NAS) or as an ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Your data is powerful, which is why you need tools to harness it for smarter business decisions. Power BI and Dynamics 365 work side by side to deliver valuable insights that help you monitor your business, align departments, and anticipate customer needs. Explore your Dynamics data If you’re looking for new ways to use data visualizations, don’t miss this opportunity to attend Summit EMEA, a three-day experience for Dynamics users with a dedicated track for Power BI. You’ll learn about the latest Power BI updates and see what’s possible ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As you probably know, the Power BI service is updated weekly with fixes and new features. When we release major features, we always to make sure to release a coinciding blog post explaining the new features in detail so you can begin using them right away. In addition to these individual feature posts, we’re starting a monthly feature summary for the Power BI service, similar to the posts you know and love for Power BI Desktop. So, without further ado, here’s the complete list of January updates in the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Krishna Mamidipaka. Today, we are pleased to announce the roll-out of several compelling capabilities in Azure Stream Analytics. These include native support for geospatial functions, custom code with JavaScript, low latency dashboarding with Power BI and preview of Visual Studio integration and Job diagnostic logs. Additionally, effective today there will be no more ingress data throttling. Native support for Geospatial functions Starting today, customers can easily build solutions for scenarios such as connected cars, fleet management, and mobile asset tracking with tremendous ease using Azure Stream Analytics. Developers can now leverage powerful built-in geospatial functions ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Chipalo Street. For businesses around the world, connecting existing assets and devices to the cloud is a first step towards realizing the benefits of the industrial Internet of Things. Yet while the opportunity for operational efficiencies and productivity improvements are straightforward, the logistics of connecting legacy industrial devices and systems are often not as easy to tackle. For starters, industrial equipment is often built to last decades, and older devices tend not to be cloud aware. They also don’t have the capability perform the encryption necessary to securely traverse the internet, and in many cases ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of real-time streaming datasets in Power BI. This feature set allows users to easily stream data to Power BI via the REST API, Azure Stream Analytics, or PubNub, and to see that data instantly light on their dashboards. Since we announced public preview earlier last year, we’ve been delighted to see thousands of users across a dozen industries leverage these capabilities to gain insights and take action on their data, right as it happens. As part of this news, I ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This year, we will keep investing in perfecting the mobile apps experience and performance to bring you an outstanding way to experience your data on the go. We believe having your data available, easily and at any time, is a basic need in today’s business world. Having said that, if you’re looking for more control and customization of your mobile experience, we encourage you to try our Phone reports capability, introduced as part of this month's release. In this release, you’ll also find exciting improvements for tables and matrices, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Bruno. Since launching in September 2016, Microsoft Azure Germany has continued to expand service and assurance capabilities in our first-of-its-kind cloud for Europe. Today we are excited to announce availability of several new services and the achievement of  ISO/IEC 27001 certification and ISO/IEC 27018 compliance attestation. Expanding innovation for customers In addition to the comprehensive set of services offered already, we are announcing 4 major functionality releases - HDInsight on Linux, Power BI, Cool Blob Storage and Mobile Apps for Azure App Service. HDInsight on Linux is Azure’s fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering – providing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Barclay. This is a guest post from Nathan Mehl, Site Reliability Engineering Manager at The Climate Corporation.—The Climate Corporation aims to help all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity through the use of digital tools. The integrated Climate FieldView™ digital agriculture platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools. Bringing together seamless field data collection, advanced agronomic modeling and local weather monitoring into simple mobile and web software solutions, the Climate FieldView platform gives farmers a deeper understanding of their fields so they can make more informed operating decisions to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Casey Karst. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a SQL-based fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution for data warehousing. SQL Data Warehouse is highly elastic, enabling you to provision in minutes and scale capacity in seconds. You can scale compute and storage independently, allowing you to burst compute for complex analytical workloads or scale down your warehouse for archival scenarios, and pay based off what you're using instead of being locked into predefined cluster configurations. Since announcing general availability in July 2016, we have continued to work on helping customers get data faster into their Data Warehouse ... Read More