Category: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudheer Sirivara. Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission. We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever. At IBC 2019, we’re delighted to share the latest innovations we’ve been working on and how they can help transform your media workflows. Read on to learn more, or join our product teams and partners at Hall 1 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Outi Nyman. This blog post was co-authored by Ricky Brundritt, Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Maps. Azure Maps services continue to expand our support for Microsoft enterprise customers’ needs in Azure. And, we’ve been busy expanding our capabilities. Today we’re announcing Azure Maps is now available in Argentina, India, Morocco, and Pakistan. We have also launched a new Azure Maps data feedback site that is now in preview. In addition, we’re also introducing several enhancements that are available via our Representational state transfer (REST) services and Azure Maps web and Android SDKs. Here is a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Accenture and Avanade won the 2019 Microsoft Internet of Things Partner of the Year award this past spring. At the Microsoft Inspire partner conference in July, Brendan Mislin, Managing Director, Industry X.0 IoT Lead at Accenture, shared some insights and best practices that have helped this award-winning partner unlock the value of Azure IoT for our mutual customers. Figure 1 Petrofac, a leading oilfield services company, leverages Accenture’s Connected Construction solution Five of the best practices Mislin shared are below. For the complete discussion, view the interview. 1.    Expect IoT opportunities in all ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. With each passing year, more and more developers are building cloud-native applications. As developers build more complex applications they are looking to innovators like Microsoft Azure and HashiCorp to reduce the complexity of building and operating these applications. HashiCorp and Azure have worked together on a myriad of innovations. Examples of this innovation include tools that connect cloud-native applications to legacy infrastructure and tools that secure and automate the continuous deployment of customer applications and infrastructure. Azure is deeply committed to being the best platform for open source software developers like HashiCorp to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tyler Fox. This is the fourth blog post in a four-part series on monitoring on Azure HDInsight. Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 1: An Overview discusses the three main monitoring categories: cluster health and availability, resource utilization and performance, and job status and logs. Part 2 is centered on the first topic, monitoring cluster health and availability. Part 3 discussed monitoring performance and resource utilization. This blog covers the third of those topics, workload metrics and logs, in more depth. During normal operations when your Azure HDInsight clusters are healthy and performing optimally, you will likely ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Scott Jeschonek. Today we’re previewing the Azure HPC Cache service, a new Azure offering that empowers organizations to more easily run large, complex high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in Azure. Azure HPC Cache reduces latency for applications where data may be tethered to existing data center infrastructure because of dataset sizes and operational scale. Scale your HPC pipeline using data stored on-premises or in Azure. Azure HPC Cache delivers the performant data access you need to be able to run your most demanding, file-based HPC workloads in Azure, without moving petabytes of data, writing new code, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, and others trust Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure in our new cloud regions in Germany. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital transformations. As we enter new markets, we work to address scenarios where data residency is of critical importance, especially for highly regulated industries seeking the compliance standards and extensive security offered by Azure. Additionally, Office 365—the world’s leading cloud-based productivity ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Staying connected to access and ingest data in today's highly distributed application environments is paramount for any enterprise. Many businesses need to operate in and across highly unpredictable and challenging conditions. For example, energy, farming, mining, and shipping often need to operate in remote, rural, or other isolated locations with poor network connectivity. With the cloud now the de facto and primary target for the bulk of application and infrastructure migrations, access from remote and rural locations becomes even more important. The path to realizing the value of the cloud starts with a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tara Prakriya. This post was co-authored by the extended Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP) team.  A connected vehicle solution must enable a fleet of potentially millions of vehicles, distributed around the world, to deliver intuitive experiences including infotainment, entertainment, productivity, driver safety, driver assistance. In addition to these services in the vehicle, a connected vehicle solution is critical for fleet solutions like ride and car sharing as well as phone apps that incorporate the context of the user and the journey. Imagine you are driving to your vacation destination and you start your conference call ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. AZULINK: Get your application fully managed on Azure with a one-stop-shop partner committed to results and centralizing governance and scalability of your Azure services on IaaS and PaaS. BI for Dynamics 365FO: Enable your organization to do more with company data. With Hillstar's standard BI connector for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, users can easily slice and dice through reports and drill down to deeper levels to see more detail. Blender with Flamenco worker on Windows - ATLG: Blender with Flamenco on Azure provides an easy-to-deploy Flamenco manager/worker environment that can be ... Read More