Using AzureAD identities in Azure DevOps organizations backed by Microsoft...
Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate...
View ArticleWhat to expect in Spark + AI summit Europe
The Spark + AI summit Europe kicks-off in just a few days in London. Microsoft and many of their customers using Azure Databricks are present during the Summit. Azure Databricks is a first party...
View ArticleXKCD “Curve Fitting”, in R
You probably saw this XKCD last week, which brought a grimace of recognition to statisticians everywhere: It's so realistic, that Barry Rowlingson was able to reproduce all but two of the "charts"...
View ArticleWhy and how you simplify IT with Microsoft 365
During this past week at Microsoft Ignite, it was an honor to spend time sitting with customers, listening to them explain what’s working and what’s not, and learning more about where they need our...
View ArticleExploring .NET Core’s SourceLink – Stepping into the Source Code...
According to https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink, SourceLink "enables a great source debugging experience for your users, by adding source control metadata to your built assets." Sound fantastic. I...
View ArticleAdvanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage now in public preview
We are excited to announce that this week we have made Advanced Threat Protection available for public preview on Azure Storage Blob service. Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage detects...
View ArticleHDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available
Enterprise Security Package GA for HDInsight 3.6 The HDInsight team is excited to announce the general availability of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive...
View ArticleHealthcare costs are skyrocketing! Reduce costs and optimize with AI
In 2016, healthcare costs in the US are estimated at nearly 18 percent of the GDP! Cost reduction is a high priority for all types of healthcare organizations, but especially healthcare providers such...
View ArticleProtecting banks through cloud-based sanction screening solutions
At a previous position, I owned the software and hardware testing across a 6,000-branch network for a large fortune 100 bank in the U.S. The complexity and sophistication of the end-to-end delivery of...
View ArticleGaining insights from industrial IoT data with Microsoft Azure
Technology is moving at an amazing pace. Manufacturers around the world are observing this first-hand. Additive manufacturing, robotics, and IoT are some of the technologies that directly influence the...
View ArticleTime synchronization for financial services in Azure
You know the expression: “Time is money.” For many workloads in the capital markets space, time accuracy is money. Depending on the application and applicable regulation, financial transactions need to...
View ArticleAnsible 2.7: What’s new for Azure
Ansible 2.7 will be released 4 October 2018. Here I would like to share with you what are upcoming for Azure in Ansible 2.7. In total, 21 new Azure modules were added. In 2.7 you now have the ability...
View ArticleAnalytics will be available on TFS 2019 RC1 – Want to help us test it?
Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. Analytics will be available with TFS 2019 RC1, which should be available later this year. We are looking...
View ArticleCUDA 10 is now available, with support for the latest Visual Studio 2017...
We are pleased to echo NVIDIA announcement for CUDA 10 today, and particularly excited about CUDA 10.0’s Visual Studio compatibility. CUDA 10.0 will work with all the past and future updates of Visual...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 20
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From August 16 to 31, 87 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual machines...
View ArticleCooling down storage costs in the healthcare AI blueprint
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming healthcare. From streamlining operations to aiding in clinical diagnosis. Healthcare organizations are often challenged to begin...
View ArticleWorld-class PyTorch support on Azure
Today we are excited to strengthen our commitment to supporting PyTorch as a first-class framework on Azure, with exciting new capabilities in our Azure Machine Learning public preview refresh. In...
View ArticleIoT solutions for manufacturing: build or buy?
If you are a manufacturer who wants to take its first steps towards IoT, and you’re overwhelmed by the plethora of vendors and IoT platforms in the IoT space, you are not alone. IoT is still a new...
View ArticleEnabling real-time data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Gaining insights rapidly from data is critical to competitiveness in today’s business world. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), Microsoft’s fully managed analytics platform leverages Massively Parallel...
View ArticleEight use cases for machine learning in insurance
Insurance companies that sell life, health, and property and casualty insurance are using machine learning (ML) to drive improvements in customer service, fraud detection, and operational efficiency....
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