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Great Learning Launches New Online Postgraduate Program in Cloud Computing for Working Professionals

Source:-https://www.dqindia.com Great Learning has collaborated for its online postgraduate program in Cloud Computing with the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. This six-month online program is co-created and co-delivered by top-notch faculty and industry experts from Great Learning and the University of Texas – McCombs School of Business. As per the 2021 Best Business Schools rankings by US News Business School Compass, the University of Texas at Austin-(McCombs) is ranked 18th in the United States. The solution-oriented

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Microsoft Joins MEF To Bolster Azure for Operators Services

Source:-https://redmondmag.com Microsoft has joined the MEF, a nonprofit industry association that aims to standardize various software-defined networking (SDN) technologies used by service providers and enterprises. The MEF lays claim to having 200 member companies, with its board heavily representing telco and Internet service providers, such as AT&T, Comcast, Ericsson, Orange and Verizon. Microsoft now joins the MEF, which in turn has appointed Shawn Hakl, a Microsoft partner executive on 5G strategy, as an MEF advisory director. “Microsoft’s decision to join

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Executive Q&A: NetApp’s Jeff Whitaker Talks Azure NetApp Files and Recent Government Deployment

Source:-https://www.meritalk.com MeriTalk sat down with Jeff Whitaker, Senior Manager of Cloud Data Services at NetApp, to discuss Azure NetApp Files (ANF) and the recent deployment in the U.S. government region in Virginia. With a 12-year tenure at NetApp under his belt, Jeff now handles the marketing activities for NetApp’s Azure NetApp Files platform and the Azure overall messaging and storyline. Today, Jeff will dive into ANF’s expansive capabilities when it comes to deploying in the government region, challenges faced along

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The Migros community relies on Microsoft Azure for its „Journey to the Cloud“

Source:-https://news.microsoft.com The Migros community has chosen to partner with Microsoft on its „Journey to the Cloud“. In addition to Microsoft 365, the Swiss retail company will use Azure Services from the Microsoft Cloud in Switzerland in the future, thus accelerating the already advanced digitisation of the entire group of companies. Patrick Mosberger, Head of IT Infrastructure at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, is pleased about the future cooperation: „With our Cloud first strategy, we are taking Migros into a new infrastructure era. The efficient

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AMD Boosts Microsoft Azure Data Explorer Performance

Source:-https://www.sdxcentral.com AMD scored another victory as Microsoft moved its updated Azure Data Explorer platform to EPYC 2-based virtual machines (VMs). Microsoft’s AMD-based Dav4 VM family is now the default SKU for Azure Data Explorer clusters, while the Easv4 and Lsv2 instances — also AMD based — are aimed at customers that need high SSD performance or are working with storage-heavy workloads, respectively. “These VM families represent unprecedented improvements in return on investment in cost and performance,” said Uri Barash, product

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Udacity Launches Machine Learning Engineer For Microsoft Azure Nanodegree Program

Source:-https://analyticsindiamag.com Udacity has collaborated with Microsoft to launch the latest addition to Udacity’s School of Artificial Intelligence, known as the Machine Learning Engineer for Microsoft Azure Nanodegree program. The launch is aligned with Udacity’s mission to train learners in the careers of the future to stay relevant vis-a-vis the ever-evolving, tech-centric job market. The Nanodegree program will strengthen the ML skills of the students, providing them hands-on experience in training, validating, and evaluating ML models with Microsoft Azure. It will

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Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services

Source:-https://venturebeat.com Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, which is available as part of Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision, a “significant research breakthrough” and an example of its commitment to accessible AI. Automatic image captioning has a number of broad use cases, first and foremost assisting users with disabilities. According to the World Health Organization, the number of

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Microsoft, AICTE collaborate to skill students, educators in next-gen tech

Source:-https://www.outlookindia.com New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) Tech giant Microsoft on Monday said it has partnered with All India Council For Technical Education to empower learners and educators in new-age technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), data science and cloud computing. As part of the partnership, over 1,500-course modules from Microsoft will be made available to students and educators free of cost through AICTE”s e-learning portal ELIS, a statement said. Microsoft”s learning resource centre Microsoft Learn has been

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Ansys Cloud on Microsoft Azure: A Vital Resource for Business Continuity During the Pandemic

Source:-https://www.ansys.com Around the world, many employees have needed to work from home due to the pandemic. While enabling this is important for businesses regardless of their industry, a work-from-home environment can strain IT resources, as remote workers can have difficulty accessing their employers’ technology platforms. Cloud computing is an essential tool to ensure business continuity in these difficult times. For engineers, designers and analysts running simulations, it’s hard to work from home without a powerful computer. Some companies started by

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Microsoft Innovates Its Azure Multi-Cloud, Multi-Edge Hybrid Capabilities

Source:-infoq During the recent Ignite virtual conference, Microsoft announced several updates for their Azure multi-cloud and edge hybrid offerings. These updates span from security innovations to new edge capabilities. From its inception onward, Microsoft Azure has been hybrid by design, providing customers with services that allow ground to cloud and cloud to ground shifts of workloads. Moreover, Microsoft keeps expanding its cloud platform hybrid capabilities to allow customers to run their apps anywhere across on-premises, multi-cloud, and the edge. At

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Microsoft readies its AWS Outposts hybrid competitor: Azure Stack ‘Fiji’

Source:-zdnet.com Microsoft is working on a new member of the Azure Stack family, which will provide Azure hardware managed via the Azure public cloud, for customers to install in their own datacenters. Microsoft is developing a new member of its Azure Stack hybrid computing family that is codenamed Azure Stack “Fiji.” Fiji is meant to provide users with the ability to run Azure as a local cloud, managed by public Azure and delivered in the form of racks of servers

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Google: Here’s how much we give to open source through our GitHub activity

Source:-zdnet.com Google’s figures show its activity on open-source projects has doubled over the past five years. Google has given an update on its contributions to open-source software, revealing that its employees were active in over 70,000 repositories on GitHub in 2019. DEVELOPER Coronavirus: From startups to supercomputers, how tech is trying to help tackle COVID-19 Programming language Julia: Version 1.4 is even faster and brings these new features Visual Studio 2019: Now IntelliSense linter for C++ programming language cleans up

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How to avoid a Kubernetes food fight!

Source:-cio.com National Lampoon’s Animal House is a 1978 American, comedy film with an iconic scene. Bluto (played by John Bulushi) yells “Food fiiiiiiiight!”, and a crazy chaos ensues as the students wildly fling food all over the cafeteria. As I listen to CIOs describe how their employees are installing the free, open source Kubernetes software, that food fight scene plays out in my mind. So why is there so much chaos concerning Kubernetes installations? Well, because it’s free–meaning anyone can

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Microsoft Says CyberX Acquisition Will Boost Azure IoT Security

Source:-crn.com Microsoft confirms its plans to acquire CyberX, saying the deal will expand its Azure IoT security offerings, including Azure Sentinel, to cover devices in a variety of industrial settings. Multiple reports say the deal is worth roughly $165 million. Microsoft confirmed previous reports that it’s planning to acquire industrial IoT security startup CyberX to complement its existing Azure IoT security offerings and expand the scope of devices it covers. The Redmond, Wash.-based company unveiled the CyberX acquisition Monday, more

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Increasing election security monitoring in cloud computing

Source:-blogs.microsoft.com Today, we have an exciting announcement we believe will help increase election security while enabling election officials to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of cloud computing. For years, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and state and local governments throughout the United States have worked with the non-profit Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) to monitor the security of election-related data. This is enabled by Albert Network Monitoring, which examines internet traffic and connection

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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS CodeArtifact

Source:-infoq.com Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed artifact repository service. With this service developers and organizations can securely store and share the software packages used in their development, build, and deployment processes. As a managed service, AWS CodeArtifact is designed to make it easier for organizations to control the access and versioning of packages, as well as to track dependencies of software artifacts. The service organizes repositories under a central domain. However, individual

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Udacity, Microsoft to skill people in machine learning for Azure Cloud

Source:-outlookindia.com New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) US-based learning platform Udacity on Friday announced a partnership with Microsoft to confer scholarships for a new Machine Learning Nanodegree programme in Microsoft Azure. Phase one of the programme will provide 10,000 applicants access to the two-month-long foundation course titled ”Introduction to Machine Learning on Azure” with a low-code experience. The second phase will offer a scholarship for the new programme in Microsoft Azure to top 300 performers of the foundation course, Udacity said

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Azure Files Service Gets Active Directory Domain Services Support

Source:-redmondmag.com Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service. The use of Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) with the Azure Files service has reached the “general availability” stage, Microsoft announced on Thursday. It means the feature is deemed ready for use in production environments. ADDS enables the synchronization of local Active Directory accounts with the Azure Active Directory service. It’s helpful to use ADDS with the Azure Files service because it permits existing

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HPC on Microsoft Azure: A Practical Guide

Source:-wire19.com Deploying critical workloads like genomic sequencing, oil and gas, or electronic design automation requires speed, resilience and high-availability. High Performance Computing (HPC) offerings from Azure enable you to leverage cloud HPC, which can significantly reduce your costs while providing workload distribution and scalability. Why Run HPC in the Cloud? You can run HPC workloads in all major public or private clouds. Some cloud providers, like Azure, offer ready-to-use HPC clusters for machine learning, big data analytics, which you can

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Google Cloud hires NetApp top executive to push India growth plans

Source:-livemint.com Google Cloud has been vocal about hiring and growth plans across India and Asia despite problems posed by the pandemic The company aims to brand itself into the preferred cloud ecosystem across enterprise and small and medium businesses Topics Google Cloud MUMBAI: Google Cloud on Monday announced the appointment of former NetApp top executive Anil Valluri as senior director of Google Cloud in India. The company had in March appointed former IBM India head Karan Bajwa as managing director

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