Category: Azure

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. Today marks the official start of the 2020 release wave 1, kicking off the deployment of new applications and hundreds of new capabilities and updates across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.This release lands at an unprecedented time for business and society. We are providing support and resources for organizations on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreak and prioritizing the seamless business continuity for our Dynamics 365 and Power Platform customers. Our customer commitment includes allowances for uptake of the 2020 release wave 1, as well as the timely release of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. IoT is reaching mainstream adoption across businesses in all market segments. Our vision is to enable Azure to be the world’s computer, giving businesses real-time visibility into every aspect of their operations, assets, and products. Businesses are harnessing signals from IoT devices of all shapes and sizes, from the very smallest microcontroller units (MCUs) to very capable microprocessor units (MPUs). This presents a great opportunity for collaboration between semiconductor manufacturers with extensive expertise in MCUs/MPUs and Azure IoT, an industry leader in IoT. It has been nearly one year since we acquired Express ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. Today, we're announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from SSE with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default. SSE with CMK improves on platform-managed keys by giving you control of the encryption keys to meet your compliance need. Today, customers can also use Azure Disk Encryption, which leverages the Windows BitLocker feature and the Linux dm-crypt feature to encrypt Managed Disks with CMK within the guest virtual machine (VM). SSE with CMK improves on Azure Disk encryption by enabling ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yuemin Lu. Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium SSD disks. With bursting, even the smallest Premium SSD disks (4 GiB) can now achieve up to 3,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 170 MiB/second. If you have experienced jitters in disk IOs due to unpredictable load and spiky ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. We couldn’t be more excited to announce the general availability of MariaDB SkySQL today!It’s been years in the making, from the initial release of official MariaDB containers and Helm Charts back in 2018 to engineering-led sessions at OpenWorks ‘19 discussing design principles for a next-generation database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to initial feedback from customers participating in the limited technical preview earlier this year. All of this has led up to today’s launch of SkySQL cloud database in multiple regions across the world. We created SkySQL because the world deserves, and demands, a DBaaS capable of meeting ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Mike Yawn. Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise is the new cloud-native managed service that allows you to quickly set up a cluster of Hazelcast IMDG nodes in a public cloud (Amazon Web Services today, with Google GCP and Microsoft Azure coming later this year), and have that cluster fully managed for you by Hazelcast. Setting up the cluster requires just a few steps, and we will take you through everything you need to do to get your first cloud-based cluster up and running.   For this blog, we’ll deploy our Hazelcast Cloud Enterprise cluster on Amazon AWS, ... Read More

Author: . For decades organizations have relied on monolithic databases to run core business operations, but these traditional relational database management systems weren’t designed to support the requirements of modern application architectures.Modern tools and technologies allow developers to design and build web-scale microservices and container-based applications, and non-scalable centralised databases just don’t work in this type of architecture. In fact, they become a real limitation, particularly for mission-critical applications moving to distributed or cloud environments. Recently I presented a webinar on how enterprises can move beyond these limitations with a distributed SQL database, and I got some great questions, so ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Join us for a Power Platform webinar on Tuesday 31 March, 2020 at 11:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT, presented by Microsoft Data Platform MVP Ana María Bisbé York In Ana Maria’s words: “In recent times I’ve worked primarily on projects, training and consulting around Microsoft Power BI. Sometimes Power BI is thought of as something just intended to create the visualization. Just focusing on the name, we can correct this inaccurate perception. Power indicates strength and BI stands by Business Intelligence. Power BI is capable of flowing through ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Cloud, edge computing, and IoT are making strides to transform whole industries and create opportunities that weren't possible just a few years ago. With the rise of 5G mobile connectivity, there are even more possibilities to deliver immersive, real-time experiences that have demanding, ultra-low latency, and connectivity requirements. 5G opens new frontiers with enhanced mobile broadband up to 10x faster, reliable low-latency communication, and very high device density up to 1 million devices per square kilometer. Today we’re announcing transformative advances to combine the power of Azure, 5G, carriers, and technology partners around ... Read More