Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bhanu Prakash. Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. You can deploy these big data technologies and ISV applications as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring. Given the broad scope of open source technologies on big data, we have received many requests for a detailed guide around HDInsight. This post outlines the key areas covered by the guide and also outlines some other options for learning on ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. Just one month ago, we announced our increased investment in Terraform. It is amazing to see the progress we have already made together with HashiCorp and the Terraform community. In the last month alone, we added support for Azure Container Instances and Azure Event Grid to the Terraform provider. Today at HashiConf, I announced native Terraform support built-in to the Azure Cloud Shell. I also announced 8 verified Azure Modules as part of the Terraform Module Registry launch. Now is a great time for you to try Terraform on Azure. Terraform Module Registry ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft Intellectual Property.  Cloud-fueled digital transformation enables companies around the world to create new products and services, and engage with their customers at an unprecedented pace and scale. As they become digital businesses, companies need to address legal challenges which come with participating in the digital economy. Microsoft has developed strategies and assets to manage the intellectual property infringement risks that come with digital transformation. As our customers and partners become digital businesses, we are using our IP ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, September 24 at 7:00 AM GMT. Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models—and deliver better results for your business. The authors—experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements—walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts—and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice—as you progress through each chapter. Learn more Terms & conditions Each week, on Sunday at 12:01 AM PST / ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. At the IoT Expo in Taipei, we were excited to announce our contribution of an open-source, cross-platform OPC UA Global Discovery Server (GDS) to the OPC Foundation. As we have done with our UA-.Net Standard cross-platform reference stack contribution, we will check it in to the OPC Foundations’ GitHub in the next couple of weeks. While an OPC UA GDS also manages OPC UA server configuration and handles centralized discovery, the greatest value of a GDS deployment is its certificate management capability and is described here. The most important aspect of the digital ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noa Kuperberg. Join our first AMA session on Thursday, September 21, 2017 from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Pacific Time. Add the event to your calendar! Last month, we announced a new query language for Azure Log Analytics, offering advanced search and analytics capabilities, a straight-forward syntax, and a variety of new features. These features include joins, search-time calculated fields, rich date-time and string manipulation, machine-learning operators, and much more. We’ve also held a webinar, which reviewed the short upgrade process, and the new experiences we offer based on the new language. We’ve since seen a lot ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Dilip Lukose. Over the past few months, we announced the support for Geographic Traffic Routing, Fast failover, and TCP probing using Azure Traffic Manager. It is our constant endeavor to add new capabilities that add value to our customers. Today, we are excited to announce the support for EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) in Azure Traffic Manager. When customers choose to use Performance or Geographic routing methods with Azure Traffic Manager, the routing decision made depends on the origin of the Domain Name System (DNS) request. Azure Traffic Manager determines the request origin region by inspecting ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudheer Sirivara. Over the past months, we have aggressively added innovative new capabilities in Azure to enable content owners and partners to prepare, store, protect, distribute and monetize media in the cloud. We are thrilled to see media & cable organizations choosing Microsoft Azure for their digital transformation needs. Whether helping organizations move their focus away from infrastructure to content, distributing content with digital era velocity, or providing reliable and relevant content, Microsoft Azure is the trusted and global-scale cloud for the media industry’s needs. Azure Media Services In response to enthusiastic customer feedback, we ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Stuart Kwan. A common challenge in cloud development is managing the credentials used to authenticate to cloud services. Today, I am happy to announce the Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MSI) preview. MSI gives your code an automatically managed identity for authenticating to Azure services, so that you can keep credentials out of your code. What is Managed Service Identity and how do I use it? Your code needs credentials to authenticate to cloud services, but you want to limit the visibility of those credentials as much as possible. Ideally, they never appear on ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anna Roth. To enable developers to build for the intelligent edge, Custom Vision Service from Microsoft Cognitive Services has added mobile model export. Custom Vision Service is a tool for easily training, deploying, and improving custom image classifiers. With just a handful of images per category, you can train your own image classifier in minutes. Today, in addition to hosting your classifiers at a REST endpoint, you can now export models to run offline, starting with export to the CoreML format for iOS 11. Export will allow you to embed your classifier directly in your ... Read More