Category: Microsoft

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. With Power BI continuing to get many great new features, including the latest in Datamarts (see my blog Power BI Datamarts), I’m starting to hear customers ask “Can I just build my entire enterprise data warehouse solution in Power BI”? In other words, can I just use Power BI and all its built-in features instead of using Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Databricks, etc? The short answer is “No”. First off, as far as Datamarts, I do not recommend using this new capability as a compete or replacement ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Takuto Higuchi. The capacity of a system to adjust to changes by adding or removing resources to meet demand is known as scalability. Here are some tests to check the scalability of your model. System testing System tests are carried out to test the robustness of the design of a system for given inputs and expected outputs (for example, an MLOps pipeline, inference). Acceptance tests (to fulfill user requirements) can be performed as part of system tests. A/B testing A/B testing is performed by sending production traffic to alternate systems that will be evaluated. Statistical ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you're a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Stephen Kitay. How can Microsoft empower satellite operators to focus on their mission and enable them to continue the operation of their satellites, without making capital investments in their ground infrastructure? To answer that question, Microsoft worked alongside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and our partner Xplore, to demonstrate how the commercial cloud can provide satellite mission management for NOAA’s legacy polar satellites (NOAA-18)—extending the mission life of these satellites while reducing the cost of operation through Azure Orbital Ground Station as-a-Service (GSaaS). Partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Xplore ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Takuto Higuchi. Robustness is the ability of a closed-loop system to tolerate perturbations or anomalies while system parameters are varied over a wide range. There are three essential tests to ensure that the machine learning system is robust in the production environments: unit testing, data and model testing, and integration testing. Unit testing Tests are performed on individual components that each have a single function within the bigger system (for example, a function that creates a new feature, a column in a DataFrame, or a function that adds two numbers). We can perform unit tests ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erin Chapple. I had the awesome opportunity to talk with a few people innovating with some of the most exciting next-generation tech in our latest episode of the Inside Azure for IT fireside chat series. Many of us, myself included, spend a lot of time focused on challenges that need to be addressed today—in this minute—leaving less time for creativity and longer-range planning. The same is true for many organizations. When businesses are faced with downtime, traditional hardware restrictions, or have to adapt quickly to new changes afoot, it can limit productivity and stifle innovation. What ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sarah Bird. A core priority for the Cognitive Services team is to ensure its AI technology, including facial recognition, is developed and used responsibly. While we have adopted six essential principles to guide our work in AI more broadly, we recognized early on that the unique risks and opportunities posed by facial recognition technology necessitate its own set of guiding principles. To strengthen our commitment to these principles and set up a stronger foundation for the future, Microsoft is announcing meaningful updates to its Responsible AI Standard, the internal playbook that guides our AI product ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Moe Tanabian. For Microsoft Azure IoT, our approach is connecting devices at the edge to the cloud seamlessly and securely to help customers achieve desired business outcomes. At this year’s Embedded World 2022, we’ll share how our Azure IoT solutions are delivering enhanced device security, seamless cloud integration, and device certification. One of the key ways we’re delivering cost-efficient and energy-efficient solutions to IoT customers at Embedded World is with new Arm64 support. Partners such as NXP, with i.MX 8M SoC processors, are bringing full Windows IoT Enterprise capabilities in a small footprint ideal for compact and fanless ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Suren Jamiyanaa. We are excited to share that Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy and Azure DDoS Protection plan management in Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available. With an increasing need to secure cloud deployments through a Zero Trust approach, the ability to manage network security policies and resources in one central place is a key security measure. Today, you can now centrally manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide Layer 7 application security to your application delivery platforms, Azure Front Door, and Azure Application Gateway, in your networks and across subscriptions ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kathleen Mitford. Welcome to Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day—please join us for the digital event. Today, we’re sharing how Azure Arc extends Azure platform capabilities to datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments through an impactful, 90-minute lineup of keynotes, breakouts, and technical sessions available live and on-demand. As part of today’s event, we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Machine Learning for hybrid and multicloud deployments with Azure Arc. Now you can build, train, and deploy your machine learning models right where the data lives, such as your new or existing hardware and IoT devices ... Read More