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HashiCorp Consul plays to multi-platform strength with Azure

Source: searchitoperations.techtarget.com HashiCorp’s Consul service mesh will be offered as a hosted service on Microsoft Azure, where it can link container clusters along with VMs in multiple regions. Microsoft Azure users will get a hosted version of the HashiCorp Consul service mesh as multi-platform interoperability becomes a key feature for IT shops and cloud providers alike. Service mesh is an architecture for microservices networking that uses a sidecar proxy to orchestrate and secure network connections among complex ephemeral services. HashiCorp Consul is

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Azure Updates: Form Recognizer; Logic Apps; Azure Stack; Site Recovery; Vision AI Developer Kit

Source: msdynamicsworld.com Microsoft began ramping up for a new season as September got underway, highlighting new visual AI capabilities and notifying users of developer updates and soon to be deprecated features. Principal program manager Neta Halby discussed ways to use Azure Form Recognizer. To date, the system has already extracted table, text and key value pair data from documents, such as W-2s, but now adds handwritten text recognition and “mixed-mode,” applicable to medical, financial, insurance and manufacturing forms. Halby indicated a

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Pulling the Curtain Back on Crater Gold Mining Limited (ASX:CGN), Azure Healthcare Limited (ASX:AZV)

Source: manvillemessenger.com After a recent scan, we can see that Crater Gold Mining Limited (ASX:CGN) has a Shareholder Yield of 0.000000 and a Shareholder Yield (Mebane Faber) of -3.75386. The first value is calculated by adding the dividend yield to the percentage of repurchased shares. The second value adds in the net debt repaid yield to the calculation. Shareholder yield has the ability to show how much money the firm is giving back to shareholders via a few different avenues.

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Oracle and Microsoft expand OCI, Azure cloud connections

Source: searchoracle.techtarget.com The multi-cloud capabilities offered by Oracle and Microsoft are now available in the U.K. via a link between the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Azure platforms. Oracle and Microsoft have expanded the cloud computing partnership they formed in June, adding a direct connection between their cloud data centers in London to the initial one that was set up in a pair of Virginia facilities. The Oracle-Microsoft partnership brings interoperability between cloud systems that’s designed to make it easier for customers to

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Elastic releases Elasticsearch Service on Azure

Source: helpnetsecurity.com Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced the launch of Elasticsearch Service on Azure will be welcome news for many of their managed service users who want more cloud provider options and value Azure’s powerful global reach. Organizations that have standardized on Azure will now be able to enjoy the convenience of a fully managed Elasticsearch service, from the creators of Elasticsearch, on their preferred cloud platform — something that was not previously possible. Elasticsearch Service users

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MongoDB Atlas Launches on Microsoft Azure Marketplace Offering Unified Billing for Joint Customers

Source: prnewswire.com NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB Inc. (Nasdaq: MDB), the leading modern, general purpose database platform, today announced an expanded relationship with Microsoft. MongoDB Atlas will be available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. MongoDB will be part of Microsoft’s strategic Partner Reported ACR co-sell program.  MongoDB Atlas launched in the summer of 2016 as a fully-managed global cloud database service. It is now available across 26 Azure regions providing service to thousands of customers that depend on MongoDB Atlas to drive their business. Atlas

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Publishing to Azure Container Registry using Azure Pipelines

Source: chrissainty.com Containerising Blazor Applications With Docker (Part 3) Part 1 – Containerising a Blazor Server AppPart 2 – Containerising a Blazor WebAssembly AppPart 3 – Publishing to Azure Container Registry using Azure Pipelines (this post) In part 1 and part 2 we looked at how to containerise Blazor applications with Docker. We can now run Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly apps in containers locally – which is great! But how do we go about automating the building of Docker images as part of a CI pipeline? And where

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10 reasons why your business needs Azure Active Directory

Source: techcentral.co.za The security of your business’s data and systems is paramount. Here’s how a cloud-based directory and identity management service can protect your business and simultaneously improve the productivity of your teams. Exclusively distributed by First Distribution as part of the FD CloudSecure range of products, powered by AVeS Cyber Security. Did you know that if you’re a current Office 365, Azure or Dynamics CRM Online customer, you’re already using Azure Active Directory? Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is

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IRAP protected compliance from infra to SAP application layer on Azure

Source: azure.microsoft.com This post was co-authored by Rohit Kumar Cherukuri, Vice President – Marketing, Cloud4C Australian government organizations are looking for cloud managed services providers capable of providing deployment of a platform as a service (PaaS) environment suitable for the processing, storage, and transmission of AU-PROTECTED government data that is compliant with the objectives of the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) produced by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). One of Australia’s largest federal agencies that is responsible for improving

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GoCo Group backs Microsoft Azure to deliver ‘savings-as-a-service’ customer acquisition strategy

Source: computerweekly.com GoCo Group technology director Kieron Nolan explains the firm’s plans to migrate most of its price comparison platforms to the Microsoft Azure cloud in 2020 The price comparison website market is a crowded place, dominated by a handful of major players that are pushing for consumers to use their online platforms over their competitors’ to find the best deals in an increasingly wide and diverse array of financial products and utilities. GoCo Group, which owns the GoCompare price

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Azure DevOps team sends help for PRs, pipelines and processes

Source: devclass.com The final version of Azure DevOps Server (ADS) 2019 Update 1 is now generally available, adding a basic process, analytics improvements and better GitHub integration to the product formerly known as Team Foundation Server. Basic process is meant as a simple approach to complement the previously available Agile, Scrum and CMMI options for new projects. It offers teams the work items Issues (to keep track of features, bugs, and user stories), Epics (for grouping Issues) and Task for

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Global Software Development Market Insights 2019 | AppSheet, Google Cloud Platform, GitHub, Zoho Creator, Azure, IntelliJ IDEA

Source: bitnomist.com Global Software Development market report study current trends, financial overview of the market and historical data evaluation based on the research insights and complete Software Development Market dynamics. Global Software Development are deeply examined based on global market share, size and revenue projection calculated by current market performance including drivers, trends and challenges. To have a clear understanding this report highlights leading companies, types, applications, and factors affecting the positive future forecast. The report likewise incorporates a point by point

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Microsoft acquires JClarity to bolster Java workloads on Azure

Source : venturebeat.com Microsoft today announced that it has acquired JClarity, leading contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project, for an undisclosed amount. In a blog post published this morning, VP of program management for developer tools and services John Montgomery said the purchase will bolster Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform by increasing performance for Java workloads. “Microsoft Azure and JClarity engineers will be working together to make Azure a better platform for our Java customers and internal teams, improving the experience

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Microsoft details Project Tardigrade, an Azure resiliency initiative

Source: neowin.net Microsoft has been making improvements to Azure reliability in recent months. In July, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich detailed some of these in a blog post, including a reference to Project Tardigrade, which was first announced at this year’s Build conference. For those unaware of its purpose, it is a new service aimed toward improving Azure resiliency, and is appropriately named after the “nearly indestructible” microscopic water bears. Today, Russinovich has expanded upon the initiative, explaining its actual functionality

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Azure Updates from Microsoft: JEDI contract; Azure Dedicated Host; New Relic; Cloud Shell; Azure Service Health

Source: msdynamicsworld.com After suggestions from President Trump that the Department of the Defense may have intentionally favored Amazon in the bidding process, the $10 billion JEDI contract is being placed on hold, Politico reports. Competing bidder Oracle has campaigned hard against Amazon in the contracting process. With Amazon’s lead in the bidding process now in question, Microsoft may have an opportunity to challenge its largest competitor for the major US government contract. But for civilian customers, one of the biggest

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Azure IoT Edge runs inside an NGD SSD

Source: blocksandfiles.com Computational storage supplier NGD has embedded the Azure IoT Edge service within its SSDs. NGD has announced the 32TB Newport SSD in the U.2 (2.5-inch) form factor, twice the capacity of the first Newport drive. This is NVMe-connected and uses less than 12W. Azure IoT Edge facilitates access to the Azure cloud using on-premises hardware. Azure workloads can be run on-premises without having to send data to the Azure cloud for processing. By doing this Azure IOT Edge

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Azure licensing update gives rivals AWS and Google Cloud new talking points

Source: onmsft.com Earlier this week Microsoft updated the terms for its on-premises license transferring to hyper-scale clouds and the change has given its rivals some new ammunition in their war for cloud service provider supremacy. We’re updating the outsourcing terms for Microsoft on-premises licenses to clarify the distinction between on-premises/traditional outsourcing and cloud services and create more consistent licensing terms across multitenant and dedicated hosted cloud services. Beginning October 1, 2019, on-premises licenses purchased without Software Assurance and mobility rights

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CSP delivering graphic-intensive solutions on Citrix Cloud and Azure

source: citrix.com In the ever-changing IT landscape, Citrix is pushing the limits of what’s possible for our customers and partners. It’s exciting how we’re helping them use our technologies, from moving workloads to the cloud, thinning down endpoints, and tweaking our ICA protocol to maximize graphics performance. Take one of my Citrix Service Provider partners, Connecticut-based SNP Technologies. I worked with them throughout the first half of 2019 to create an offering in the cloud that they have brought to

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Azure to improve security with enhanced access control experience

Source: mspoweruser.com Microsoft announced that they are doubling down on Azure security at their recent Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Today, Microsoft announced the new security features which will enhance the access control experience; including the introduction of Azure Active Directory Domain Service (Azure AD DS) authentication support for Server Message Block (SMB) access. Now, domain-joined Windows virtual machines can mount and access your Azure file shares over SMB, using AD DS credentials with enforced NTFS access control lists.

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Azure targets innovation over domination

Source: sdtimes.com The Azure development team at Microsoft is working to provide new features to win over more developers, through a heavy investment in tools for migrating legacy platforms to its cloud, pushing machine learning, quantum computing and other innovative features. Microsoft hopes its investments will pay off in growing its cloud market share, which currently sits at 16 percent, second only to AWS at 32 percent of the public cloud market share, according to the most recent findings available

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