Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tad Brockway. Azure File Sync replicates files from your on-premises Windows Server to an Azure file share. With Azure File Sync, you don’t have to choose between the benefits of cloud and the benefits of your on-premises file server - you can have both! Azure File Sync enables you to centralize your file services in Azure while maintaining local access to your data. Visit our planning guide to learn more about Azure File Sync. We created Microsoft Azure Files with the goal of making it easy for you to reap the benefits of cloud storage. We ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. ACME Solver Container Image: ACME Solver is part of the Cert Manager project. It will periodically ensure certificates are valid and up to date, and it will attempt to renew certificates at an appropriate time before expiration. AlertManager Container Image: AlertManager handles alerts sent by client applications, such as the Prometheus server. It takes care of deduplicating, grouping, and routing them to the correct receiver integrations. Apache Solr Container Image: Apache Solr is an extremely powerful, highly reliable open-source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It's flexible, scalable, and designed to quickly ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Grace Sturman. A lot has happened since we announced that Speech services is now in preview, we have released the Cognitive Services Speech SDK June 2018 update. Today, we are excited to announce that we have just released the 0.5.0 version of the Speech SDK. With this update, we have added support for UWP (on Windows version 1709), .NET Standard 2.0 (on Windows), and Java on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow, API level 23) or higher. We have made some feature changes and done some bug fixes. Most notably, we now support long-running audio and automatic reconnection ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Olivier Bloch. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the go-to solutions for executives looking for more and better insights about their business. Collectively, IoT is made up of a network of devices and sensors, otherwise known as things, which connect to a company’s network and the cloud by various means. These devices generate data about the organization and its operations, and stream it to data stores and apps where it can be analyzed and acted upon. The resulting insights enable organizations to take action in response to something that has already happened, or ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Diego Tamburini. The story of predictive maintenance (PdM) starts back in the 1990s. Technologies began to arrive that sense the world in new ways: ultrasound, infrared, thermal, vibration, to name a few. However, until recently the technology has not been available to make predictive maintenance a reality. But now, with advances in cloud storage, machine learning, edge computing, and the Internet of Things — predictive maintenance looms as the next step for the manufacturing industry. What is predictive maintenance? There are three strategies for machine maintenance: Reactive — the “don’t fix what isn’t broken” approach ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alice Kupcik. Sensitive health data processed by hospitals and insurers is under constant attack from malicious actors who try to gain access to health care systems with the goal to steal or extort personal health information. Change Healthcare has implemented a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) solution based on Microsoft Azure Cloud services and introduces Intelligent Healthcare today. Change Healthcare is enabling payers and providers to have immediate and granular control over their data by transferring the ownership of encryption keys used to encrypt data at rest. This allows Change Healthcare customers to make security ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. In 2016, healthcare costs in the US are estimated at nearly 18 percent of the GDP! Healthcare is becoming less affordable worldwide, and a serious chasm is widening between those that can afford healthcare and those that cannot. There are many factors driving the high cost of healthcare, one of them is fraud. In healthcare, there are several types of fraud including prescription fraud, medical identity fraud, financial fraud, and occupational fraud. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates conservatively that health care fraud costs the US about $68 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Vinod Kurpad. As your cloud spend starts to increase, being able to accurately forecast usage becomes a critical part of your plan. As the first step in enabling a forward looking view to your spend on a subscription we’re launching a forecast API. The forecast API today supports a daily or monthly grain forecast at a 95 percent confidence interval. The API also returns the last two months of actual usage that should help in looking at any trending scenarios. For future iterations of the API, we plan to support multiple other scopes up and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yorke Rhodes III. As part of our ongoing partnership, which my colleague Kashif Ali discussed in his November update, we are delighted to announce the launch of Corda Enterprise v3.1 to the Azure Marketplace. This comes at a time when the state of digital ledger, blockchain technology, and the surrounding industry are maturing and continuing to grow rapidly. In particular, maturity around the R3 ecosystem is accelerating. Today, R3 launches their Corda Enterprise v3.1 offering to the Azure Marketplace with a free trial offer, giving you the opportunity to kick the tires before you buy. As ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. Last year at the //Build conference we launched the Azure Cloud Shell in the Azure portal, providing our users with a cloud-native command-line environment from any device, anywhere in the world. Over the last year, we've seen incredible adoption, with thousands of users logging in every day. We've added some incredible integrations that make Cloud Shell even more powerful. We added automatic authorization for pre-installed open source tools like Terraform, Ansible, and InSpec. We've also partnered with other Microsoft teams to enable the Try It experiences for Azure and .NET documentation. Additionally, we ... Read More