Category: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Chaitanya Bangur. Genomics is foundational to the development of targeted therapeutics and precision medicine. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies has driven a revolution in genomics-based research and is helping facilitate better understanding of human biology and disease conditions. This expanded knowledge is leading to the proliferation of personalized medicine strategies to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. The trend will continue to accelerate in the coming decade as use of genomics information becomes central to clinical decision support and healthcare delivery. Sequencing genomes at the population level will be required to decipher the genomic fingerprint of ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Data can be one of the most valuable assets for any organization. With the rise of big data, companies can take advantage of vast stores of enterprise data to gain insights and make better decisions. However, as we create and store more data, consumer privacy concerns are growing. Companies need to comply with increasing numbers of regulations, such as GDPR. Data breaches occur with greater frequency, and they can be extremely damaging to an organization’s reputation as well as expensive to clean up. The risks of poor data policies are severe, even fatal for organizations ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Once the packer-provisioner-puppet-bolt binary has been unpacked, it should be moved to a path on the system where Packer can find it, as covered here.Puppet Bolt planEnsure that the latest version of Puppet Bolt is installed before getting started. In this post we’ll be using Puppet Bolt to install NGINX as a simple example of the integration between Packer and Bolt. The Bolt YAML plan below installs the epel-release repository, NGINX, and enables the service to start at boot.parameters: targets: type: TargetSpec steps: - command: yum -y install epel-release targets: $targets description: "Install ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. Businesses around the world have been harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce operational expenses, power breakthrough customer experiences, and create new revenue streams. Now, faced with the unprecedented challenges of our times, businesses are also harnessing IoT to create safer workplaces as employees return to work, reduce expenses to weather downturns, reduce environmental impact and help with sustainability goals, and remain competitive as IoT becomes a standard way of operating a business. Microsoft is a recognized leader in IoT. Our mission is to simplify IoT and make it available to every ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. Mixed reality blends our physical and digital worlds to extend computing beyond the screen and fundamentally change how we work, learn, and play. Mixed Reality has evolved from promising technology to a thriving ecosystem of solutions that are having significant and quantifiable impact today. It plays a significant role in how we manufacture goods, how we learn and retain information, and how we care for ourselves and others.  Our mixed reality services, which leverage the scalability, reliability, and security of Azure, coupled with our industry leading HoloLens 2 headset, serve as the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Omar Khan. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be challenging to adjust your business strategies to maintain productive operations and processes. You need new ways to increase efficiencies, optimize costs, and adopt new technologies at a faster rate. Your digital transformation is more critical than ever in these trying times. Microsoft stands with you, our customers, moving quickly to adapt to the ongoing pace of global change. We believe technology will enable your success and allow you to adapt to and meet these challenges. Our goal is to provide a clear path for you to achieve ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Navneet Joneja. This week at Microsoft Ignite, we discussed how a growing number of customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) are running their mission- and business-critical applications on Microsoft Azure. Across our customers, the common thread that ties mission and business-critical systems together is that they support core business processes. Examples include enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, but also analytics, e-commerce systems, systems of record like financial management, procurement, and payment, and more. Now more than ever, systems that support digitized customer experiences are also critical ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erika Ehrli. In today’s environment, software development excellence is becoming even more critical for business success. Over the past few months, we’ve seen organizations realize that their future success depends on taking advantage of technology to rethink business models, innovate, and improve processes to better serve employees and customers. The reality is many companies across different industries are becoming software companies. According to a recent study by McKinsey & Company: Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance, there are currently over 20 million software engineers worldwide, and over 50 percent of these developers are ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: divvycloud; How to Stay Secure and Compliant In the Cloud While Innovating to Connect Consumers to Critical Infrastructure and Services Introduction In a world reliant on power and telecommunications, the energy and utilities sector plays a critical role in the stability and success of virtually all other industries. In fact, its overarching importance makes it a target for malicious actors who wish to disrupt businesses of all kinds that rely on the grid to power their operations and connect them to their customers and partners. At the same time, energy and utility companies are trying to manage ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Manoj Swaminathan. Companies often struggle with latency and connectivity when running operations in remote facilities. In fact, network latency is a top connectivity challenge for 30 percent of manufacturers, according to the IDC1.A leading cause of latency is high volume and resource-intensive processes running in parallel, resulting in reduced productivity.Operations without interruptionsThe new Cloud and Edge Scale Unit add-ins for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, coming to preview in October, brings the power of the intelligent cloud to the edge. It allows organizations to run critical warehousing and manufacturing workloads on the edge ... Read More