Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ulrich Homann. Data has an increasingly important role in strengthening business models and offering improved public services but much of its potential remains untapped. Data sharing is an essential element to the promise of unlocking new business opportunities and broader economic growth for all industries. Europe has been a leading voice for years on the need to expand industry participation in data sharing. Business-to-business (B2B) data sharing is also a foundational concept of GAIA-X, an initiative to create a federated data infrastructure. Last month a coalition of leading European organizations announced the Eclipse Dataspace Connector ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Simplifying industrial IoT device connectivity has been top of mind for many of us at Microsoft. Recently we dramatically expanded our ability to support faster operational technology (OT) to cloud connectivity for up to 80 percent of all industrial equipment as part of our collaboration with key players in our partner ecosystem. This is big news—and something that everyone working on or selling IoT solutions should know as many companies struggle with connectivity implementation. Simply said, connecting existing industrial assets to the cloud just got a lot easier and you’ll save thousands of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Francois van Splunder. Consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to digital platforms for relevant product and service information, making it critical for companies to effectively meet and exceed customer expectations through digital services and technology. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is helping organizations meet this challenge by connecting and unifying commerce and marketing activities.By bringing together solutions such as Dynamics 365 Commerce and Dynamics 365 Marketing, businesses can more effectively target and deliver engaging, intuitive, and user-friendly digital commerce buying experiences. These tools allow organizations to leverage machine learning models, artificial intelligence infused-personalization, and event and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Brenda Bown. We are thrilled that Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises for Microsoft Dynamics 365.Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Dynamics 365 Finance offer businesses two standardized enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities on a composable ERP platform, functioning as stand-alone solutions or as a tightly integrated and extensible system. As product-centric enterprises look to renovate their existing ERP platform to improve systems and processes by moving them to the cloud, Dynamics 365 is enabling the transformation and improving IT agility to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Blank-Edelman. Here at Microsoft, we give a lot of advice. We’d really like to help you thrive on our platform. Reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency—we know that they are not easy to tackle when it comes to your cloud workloads. This is where the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework comes into the picture. Here’s how we describe it: The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload. The framework consists of five pillars of architecture excellence: cost optimization, operational ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Victor Bahl. Creating a programmable software infrastructure for telecommunication operations promises to reduce both the capital expenditure (CAPEX) and the operational expenses (OPEX) of the 5G telecommunications operators. What is exciting to many of us who work in this space is that the convergence of telecommunications, the cloud, and edge infrastructures will open up opportunities for new innovations and revenue for both the telecommunications industry and the cloud ecosystem. In this blog, we focus on video, the dominant traffic type on the internet since the introduction of 4G networks. With 5G, not only will the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Paul Liew. For our customers using the client for Finance and Operations apps, we’re retiring the out-of-support WS-Federation authentication protocol, and replacing it with the industry standard OpenIdConnect OAuth security protocol. OpenIdConnect OAuth security protocol supports modern authentication, which includes multi-factor authentication and conditional access policy.This upgrade, which will not result in any downtime or require customers to make changes to their system, was released in July 2021. It is available starting from in product version 10.0.20, platform version 7.0.6060.0 or later. The upgrade applies to all environment types except Dev Box, customer-hosted and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Stephanie Dart. Businesses are moving away from rigid and monolithic solutions towards agile business applications that can be deployed quickly, integrated seamlessly with other existing systems, and can collect and unify extensive amounts of data from various touchpoints unlocking siloed data. According to Forrester, siloed data inhibits organizations from creating a comprehensive profile of customer needs, a challenge for 44 percent1 of retail decision-makers.To drive better personalization, organizations also need to create a single view of their orders across all engagement channels. Propelling this shift is the realization by business leaders that they can ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gopikrishna Kannan. This post was co-authored by Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Today, we are announcing new Azure Firewall capabilities as well as updates for August 2021. Azure Firewall supports US West 3, Jio India West, and Brazil Southeast. Auto-generated self-signed certificates for Azure Firewall Premium SKU. Secure Hub now supports Availability Zones. Deploy Azure Firewall without public IP in Forced Tunnel mode. Configure pre-existing Azure Firewalls in Force Tunnel mode using stop or start commands. Azure Firewall regional expansion We expanded Azure Firewall service to three new public regions including US ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Aung Oo. As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Azure Disk Storage provides maximum resiliency for all workloads with an industry-leading zero percent annual failure rate and single-instance service-level agreements (SLA) for all disk types, including a best-in-class single-instance SLA of 99.9 percent availability for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Premium SSD or Azure Ultra Disk Storage. Today, we continue our investments to further improve the reliability of our infrastructure with the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for ... Read More