Category: Azure

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Maggie Lyons. Tropical Storm Ana, which formed in May this year, officially made 2021 the seventh consecutive year that a storm formed before the season's designated start. Since then we have seen a number of storms, representative of an increase of severe weather over the past few years, especially as we remember the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which produced 30 total storms and 14 hurricanes. After storms that create large amounts of damage pass through a community, FEMA and other federal agencies, in conjunction with state and local governments and non-profit relief organizations, assist those who ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS organization. You can choose to manage access just to your AWS accounts or cloud applications. You can create user identities directly in AWS SSO, or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With AWS SSO, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a user portal to access all ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. Microsoft has a ton of data platform-related products, but there are certain areas where they either don’t have a product or what they have is limited and you need to look at a 3rd-party product to fill that gap. At the company I work at, EY, we are building a data fabric on Azure and I have listed below the areas that we have had to look at other products outside the Microsoft realm: Master Data Management (MDM): Microsoft has Master Data Services (MDS), but it is for lightweight MDM needs and has ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ulrich Homann. Data has an increasingly important role in strengthening business models and offering improved public services but much of its potential remains untapped. Data sharing is an essential element to the promise of unlocking new business opportunities and broader economic growth for all industries. Europe has been a leading voice for years on the need to expand industry participation in data sharing. Business-to-business (B2B) data sharing is also a foundational concept of GAIA-X, an initiative to create a federated data infrastructure. Last month a coalition of leading European organizations announced the Eclipse Dataspace Connector ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Matthew Gillard. By Matthew Gillard, Lead Consultant – ContinoBy Murty Chappidi, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Contino Contino is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner that helps enterprise customers in their cloud transformation by delivering programs which migrate and modernize their workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A Fortune 500 customer asked Contino to provide consulting assistance with the migration of an internal-facing, traditional line of business. They wanted to migrate a three-tier web application onto AWS to satisfy key business metrics around resiliency and availability. Key outcomes for this engagement were to help ramp ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Traci Curran. Hybrid cloud adoption is on the rise. As companies look to accelerate their cloud journey, it’s becoming clear that there are numerous values – and constraints –  when blending the use of private on-premise clouds with those of public off-premise clouds. Creating a strategic balance between the two can often yield more favorable results for the business, but it’s important to carefully consider the benefits and risks associated with data that moves between public and private infrastructures.What is a Hybrid Cloud? A hybrid cloud environment or architecture combines using a public cloud and a private ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Simplifying industrial IoT device connectivity has been top of mind for many of us at Microsoft. Recently we dramatically expanded our ability to support faster operational technology (OT) to cloud connectivity for up to 80 percent of all industrial equipment as part of our collaboration with key players in our partner ecosystem. This is big news—and something that everyone working on or selling IoT solutions should know as many companies struggle with connectivity implementation. Simply said, connecting existing industrial assets to the cloud just got a lot easier and you’ll save thousands of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the September 2021 update, time flies and it’s Fall already! Here, in the Pacific Northwest, the first leaves have turned red and started falling. In this update, we have exciting new things for buttons, line charts, and DAX functions. Also, Insights is new this month and we have added some new capabilities for Goals. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Analytics Modeling Data connectivity and preparation Service Mobile Developers Visualizations Paginated Reports Ideas forum updates  Check out the video below for this month’s summary: ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that we have just released the September update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.96.1)   Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s  release:  Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On for Amazon Redshift Kerberos-based Single Sign-On for Hive LLAP and Tibco Data Virtualization Compatible with the September PBI desktop Amazon Redshift – Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On We are excited to release Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On (AAD SSO) for the Amazon Redshift connector, allowing you to use seamless ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Giuliano Liguori. It is no coincidence that companies are investing in AI at unprecedented levels at a time when they are under tremendous pressure to innovate. The artificial intelligence models developed by data scientists give enterprises new insights, enable new and more efficient ways of working, and help identify opportunities to reduce costs and introduce profitable new products and services. The possibilities for AI use grow almost daily, so it’s important not to limit innovation. Unfortunately, many organizations do just that by tethering themselves to proprietary tools and solutions. This can ... Read More