Lift SQL Server Integration Services packages to Azure with Azure Data Factory
Data is vital to every app and experience we build today. With increasing amount of data, organizations do not want to be tied down by increasing infrastructural costs that come with it. Data engineers...
View ArticleAzure simplifies cloud analytics
The modern business landscape is ruled by data, with analytics and AI now essential for driving transformation. Customers have benefited tremendously from the performance, flexibility, and low cost...
View ArticleExpanding Azure Certified for IoT program for the intelligent edge
Three years ago, we launched the Azure Certified for IoT program to help customers ensure their device of choice was tested to work with Azure IoT technology. Since then, our customers and partners...
View ArticleMicrosoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance...
Today, I gathered with the tech community in the Seattle area at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit to talk about how customers are using the cloud and what the future holds. I joined GeekWire’s Todd...
View ArticleAzure IoT Edge generally available for enterprise-grade, scaled deployments
Since we introduced Azure IoT Edge just over a year ago, we have seen many examples of the real-world impact from the factory floor to the farm to run cloud intelligence directly on IoT devices. Now...
View ArticleEnterprises get deeper insights with Hadoop and Spark updates on Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight is one of the most popular services amongst enterprise for open source Hadoop & Spark analytics on Azure. With the plus 50 percent price cut on HDInsight, customers moving to the...
View ArticleAzure Elastic Database jobs is now in public preview
We are excited to announce the availability of a new, significantly upgraded public preview release of Azure Elastic Database jobs. Elastic Database jobs is now a fully Azure-hosted service. Unlike the...
View ArticleUse Azure Active Directory with Spring Security 5.0 for OAuth 2.0
We are excited to announce that Spring Starter for Azure Active Directory (AD) is now integrated with Spring Security 5.0. It offers you an easy way to build OAuth2.0 authentication and authorization...
View ArticleAutomatic device management, module identity, and module twin are now...
Last month, we released Azure IoT Hub automatic device management, and module identity and module twins. Each of these features enable scenarios to enhance device management capabilities within your...
View ArticleThe Financial Times and BBC use R for publication graphics
While graphics guru Edward Tufte recently claimed that "R coders and users just can't do words on graphics and typography" and need additonal tools to make graphics that aren't "clunky", data...
View ArticleCMake Support in Visual Studio – Configuration Templates
Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3 is now available and it includes several improvements to the CMake tools. In addition to a few fixes we have simplified the way you can configure your...
View ArticleA closer look at Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
On June 27, 2018 we announced the preview of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 the only data lake designed specifically for enterprises to run large scale analytics workloads in the cloud. Azure Data Lake...
View ArticleAugmented Reality becomes mainstream in Manufacturing, changes the face of...
As it’s often the case with new technologies, Augmented Reality (and its more evolved sibling - Mixed Reality) have attracted a lot of excitement in the tech world and sparked the imaginations of many...
View ArticleAutocomplete in Azure Search now in public preview
Today, we are happy to announce public preview support for autocomplete in Azure Search, one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Autocomplete, also called “type-ahead search”, can enhance the...
View ArticleHow tech is moving the insurance industry to be more customer-focused
Insurers need to become the home page for their customers. A home page is a source of meaningful, targeted and useful content that the customer seeks out. Technology can now deliver innovative...
View ArticleGet video insights in (even) more languages!
For those of you who might not have tried it yet, Video Indexer is a cloud application and platform built upon media AI technologies to make it easier to extract insights from video and audio files. As...
View ArticleUsing the Retry pattern to make your cloud application more resilient
This post was authored by Jason Haley, Microsoft Azure MVP. Recently, I was at Boston Code Camp catching up with some old friends and looking to learn about containers or anything that could help me in...
View ArticleReasons why retail and consumer goods brands should address Artificial...
The digital experience (DX) era is here, and AI is one of the primary technologies to fuel productivity and innovation in the retail and consumer goods industry. Brands that take a wait and see...
View ArticleStatic website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview
Today we are excited to announce the public preview of static website hosting for Azure Storage! The feature set is available in all public cloud regions with support in government and sovereign clouds...
View ArticleThe emerging big data architectural pattern
Why lambda? Lambda architecture is a popular pattern in building Big Data pipelines. It is designed to handle massive quantities of data by taking advantage of both a batch layer (also called cold...
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