Coles migrates to Azure to boost digital across entire business

Source:- cio.com.au Deal with Microsoft aims to transform operations and drive deeper business insight through advanced analytics and AI Coles has inked a partnership with Microsoft that sees the shopping giant adopt Azure as its cloud platform of choice. The move is aimed at accelerating digital transformation to enhance customer experience and improve business productivity. The announcement is the latest in a series of global partnerships and developments through which Coles is building its technology and digital capability. According to

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Global Absorbent Fabrics Market Deep Analysis 2019-2024: 3M, Azure Fabrics Pvt., Technical Absorbents, Bamboo Fabric Store Australia

Source :- allindustrynews.us The “Absorbent Fabrics Market” report gives a weighty source to assess the market and other fundamental technicalities identifying with it. The examination unveils the total assessment and veritable parts of the Absorbent Fabrics market. The report demonstrates a straightforward outline of the Absorbent Fabrics market, that incorporates applications, blueprints, industry chain structure, and definitions. Moreover, it incorporates a far-reaching hypothesis of the Absorbent Fabrics market and speaks to a significant exactness, experiences, and industry-substantiated projections of the universal

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The Latest Azure Updates: Monitoring; ML; Managing complex data for healthcare

Source :- msdynamicsworld.com In the lead up to the US July 4th holiday, Microsoft issued fewer announcements than at other points in the month of June. After the company’s announcement of dedicated Middle East Azure regions, based in the UAE, other competitors are assessing their next move. Alibaba Cloud, one of the few non-US based large cloud players, is reportedly holding off on building a second data center in the UAE because the capacity of its first facility in the region

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Azure DevOps report: How a bug caused ‘sqlite3 for Python’ to go missing from Linux images

Source :- hub.packtpub.com How Azure DevOps team detected and fixed the issue The Azure DevOps team upgraded the versions of Python, which were included in the Ubuntu 16.04 image with M151 payload. These versions of Python’s build scripts consider sqlite3 as an optional module, hence the builds were carried out successfully despite the missing sqlite3 module. The issue was first reported by a user who received the M151 deployment containing the bug via the Azure Developer Community on May 20th. But

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An Inside Look at Secure DevOps Kit for Microsoft Azure

Source :- Many challenges in cloud computing come from the sheer size of deployments. If you have a handful of servers that you need to manage and secure, a manual approach can work. As the number of servers and applications increase, however, managing security by hand won’t work. Add to this the demands for increased agility that DevOps bring to the table and the automation that’s required and the risk that something falls “between the cracks” is vastly increased. This

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Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

Source :- zdnet.com Three and a half years ago, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Microsoft’s cloud, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Next, in 2017, Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux-based. Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the cloud and enterprise group, told me in an exclusive interview, “About half Azure VMs are Linux”. Now, Sasha Levin, Microsoft Linux kernel developer, in a request that Microsoft be allowed to

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What’s new in hybrid Azure services in Windows Admin Center?

Source :- searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com Microsoft expanded its hybrid Azure services in Windows Admin Center’s 1904 release with Azure File Sync, Azure Monitor, Azure Network Adapter and the Azure Hybrid Services tool in April 2019. The services simplify the management of Windows Server VMs running in Azure with Windows Admin Center as the sole console for servers in the cloud and on premises. Administrators can expect the setup of hybrid Azure services in Windows Admin Center to save them time. Jeff Woolsey and

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Azure opens up DevOps Pipelines to Auditing

Source:- devclass.com Microsoft has given curious managers greater insight into who is doing what in their Pipelines, with a public preview of Auditing for Azure DevOps. According to a blog post by Azure DevOps senior engineer, Octavio Licea Leon, “When an auditable event occurs, a log entry is recorded. These events may occur in any portion of Azure DevOps.” He listed Git repo creations, permission changes, resource deletions and accessing the auditing feature as typical auditable events. This means you – or

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The surprising Java support in Azure

Source:- infoworld.com Bringing Java code to Azure is a lot easier than you might think Microsoft’s current developer strategy is perhaps best described as pragmatic: Meet developers where they are, not where Microsoft thinks they should be. Redmond has put aside old rivalries, open sourced its own tools and languages, shipped its own Linux kernels, and made Java a first-class citizen on Azure. If you remember Microsoft’s acrimonious and litigious history in the late 1990s with Sun Microsystems over Java, support for Java

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Azure IoT Edge development with Azure DevOps

Source:- channel9.msdn.com The Internet of Things is a technology paradigm that involves the use of internet connected devices to publish data often in conjunction with real-time data processing, machine learning, and/or storage services. Development of these systems can be enhanced through application of modern DevOps principles which include tasks like automation, monitoring, and all steps of the software engineering process from development, testing, quality assurance, and release. We will examine these concepts as they relate to IoT Edge Solutions using

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The Azure Blockchain Platform has adopted VeriSol, a smart contract verification solution from Microsoft Research

Source:- cryptonewsbytes.com The Azure Blockchain Platform is taking smart contract verification seriously! Microsoft Research has recently come up with VeriSol, a smart contract verification tool and the Azure Blockchain Platform has adopted this. Blockchain promises much, however, it’s a new and evolving technology. There are challenges that require solutions, e.g., smart contracts bugs that are causing financial losses. Experts forecast that the blockchain technology market will grow up to $23.3 billion by 2023, and smart contracts will likely play a

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6 Lessons Learned During a Real-World Azure Migration

Source:- virtualizationreview.com My articles usually consist of looking at new and improved technology offerings from Microsoft and others, but this time I thought I’d cover something a little different. In my role as a business owner and IT consultant, I get the opportunity to implement on-premises technologies (Windows Server and associated services), and cloud services such as Microsoft 365 and Azure for businesses. My business is a Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP). Over the last few months I’ve been involved

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5 Must-Haves for Effectively Securing Azure

Source:- fortinet.com As enterprises move more data and applications to the cloud, security becomes an even more a foundational component because, in order to meet industry compliance requirements, and map to an organization’s larger security strategy, it must be built into the overall cloud platform. When security is deployed as an afterthought, it often needs to be reconfigured by hand when network resources adjust to meet new business needs. Which defeats the whole purpose of building and deploying a scalable

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Azure Functions grows up

Source:- infoworld.com For a technology that was born on Azure, beginning life as a derivative of its original platform WebJobs, Azure Functions has come a long way. It’s not just a cloud service, as it can be hosted in containers and run anywhere you’ve got Docker support: from your own dev hardware, to IoT devices at the edge of your network, to on-premises, and even to other cloud platforms. And Azure Functions is still evolving, adding new features and new

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DIGGING INTO AZURE SENTINEL, MICROSOFT’S NEW SIEM TOOL

Source:- techgenix.com Wouldn’t be nice if you could see threats coming and stop them before they happen? Recent technological developments in cloud computing and artificial intelligence are bringing this goal within reach. One of these new technologies is called Azure Sentinel and in simple terms it acts as a kind of virtual agent always at your side watching over your Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, collecting data across all of your devices, applications and users in order to detect, investigate and respond

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