Category: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Christian Abeln. Companies that work with manufacturing and distribution need to be able to run key business processes 24/7, without interruption, and at scale. Challenges arise with unreliable connections or network latency when business processes compete for the same system resources when peak scale is required, or during periodic or regular maintenance for different regions, across time zones, or to meet different scheduling requirements. The ability to execute daily mission-critical processes must be agnostic to these situations.Cloud and edge scale units enable companies to execute mission-critical manufacturing and warehouse processes without interruptions. This functionality ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. Earlier this year, we made a commitment to shift to 100 percent renewable energy supply in our buildings and datacenters by 2025. On this journey, we recognize that how we track our progress is just as important as how we get there. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021. Vattenfall and Microsoft are also announcing ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Want the very best Matillion ETL experience? Each new version of Matillion ETL is better than the last. Make sure you are on the latest version to take advantage of the new features, new components, and improvements. In this blog, find out about the new components, features, and improvements introduced in Matillion ETL v1.50.  New and updated data source components Intercom Output component (New)Intercom is a customer relationship platform that allows companies to interact with their customers within their SaaS products. With this release, you are now able to extract and load data from Intercom with the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lucia Stanham. A need for hybrid and multicloud strategies for financial services The financial services industry is a dynamic space that is constantly testing and pushing novel use cases of information technology. Many of its members must balance immense demands—from the pressures to unlock continuous innovation in a landscape with cloud-native entrants, to responding to unexpected surges in demand and extend services to new regions—all while managing risk and combatting financial crime. At the same time, financial regulations are also constantly evolving. In the face of the current pandemic, we have seen our customers accelerate ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xema Pathak. It is imperative to monitor the health of your virtual machine. But how much time do you spend reviewing each metric and alert to monitor the health of a virtual machine? We are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for virtual machines guest health feature that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is outside the acceptable range. This feature provides you: A simple experience to monitor the overall health of your virtual machine. Out-of-the-box health monitors based on key VM metrics to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lindsay Marshall. You look to the cloud for several reasons – to meet your cloud-first strategy, for scalability or to adapt quickly to changing business demands. Maybe all three.   Perhaps you need offerings to be available in various regions, or to reduce application response time and improve latency problems. Perhaps regulatory and compliance constraints are limiting (or mandating) the physical locations where your data can be stored and transmitted. This is why having a global data footprint is beneficial.  An important partnership for modern managed services   Managed services enable you to better address geographical constraints while staying on current software releases, improving the efficiency and dependability of your software, as well as freeing your IT staff to work on more strategic projects.    In June, 2020, SAS announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft .  An important aspect of our partnership is the ability to migrate and ... Read More

Feed: Sander Knape on Sander Knape. Table of Contents The popularity of centralized platform teams is rising. The latest Puppet State of DevOps Report shows that 63% of the respondents have at least one internal platform. Platforms are vital enablers for a more DevOps way of working as they provide self-service capabilities that development teams can autonomously utilize. The definition of a “platform” isn't set in stone though. Many organizations still struggle to put together a platform team that is really able to add value to the development teams. It's a challenge to build a team with the proper mindset ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. By Sandy Carter, AWS VP, Public Sector Global Partners and Programs What a year for AWS Public Sector Partners and our Program! In my role leading the Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I get a firsthand look at the value and impact AWS Partners have on customers all over the world. Public sector at AWS includes government (federal, state, and local), space, healthcare, education, and nonprofits. What really excites me is the focus on purpose—AWS Public Sector Partners support customers who are helping get clean ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Honeycode now supports single sign-on with identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta, OneLogin, PingFederate, or any SAML-based identity provider, including Google Workspace. Honeycode customers or the IT administrators of organizations using Honeycode can set up single sign-on so that Honeycode users can log in using their corporate credentials instead of Honeycode-specific credentials.  ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Data migration is now a necessary task for data administrators and other IT professionals. A few data migration examples include:Application migration, in which an entire application is moved from an on-premises environment to the cloud. Cloud migration, which involves moving either data or an entire application and its data to the cloud. Database migrations, which involves moving data from an existing database to a new platform. Storage migration, where an organization moves its backups for disaster recovery or other purposes to a new data storage medium, such as the cloud. But how does data migration ... Read More