Microsofthas recently announced another Platform as a Service (PaaS) offeringwith the release of MariaDB in Preview in Azure. I’d like to tell youmore about that offering and what are some of its advantages. First, a little history on MariaDB. MariaDB…
Are you looking to gain speed on your Apache Spark jobs? How does 9X performance speed sound? Today I’m excited to tell you about how engineers at Microsoft were able to gain that speed on HDInsight Apache Spark Clusters. If…
Inthe digital world we live in today, it’s getting harder to verifyidentity in industries such as banking. We now do less and lesstransactions in person. No longer do we go into banks with passbook inhand and make deposits or withdrawals…
Ifyour current SQL Database service tier is not well suited to yourneeds, I’m excited to tell you about a newly created service tier inAzure called Hyperscale. Hyperscale is a highly scalable storage andcompute performance tier that leverages the Azure architecture…
So,what do you know about Azure Automation? In this post, I’ll fill you inon this cool, cloud-based automation service that provides you theability to configure process automation, update management and systemconfiguration, which is managed across your on-premises resources, aswell as…
I’d like to discuss the recently announced Azure Firewall service that is now just released in GA. Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It is a fully stateful PaaS firewall…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into many industries today, helping to solve business problems and helping with efficiency. In this post, I’d like to share an interesting story about Shell choosing Azure for their AI platform. Shell Oil…
In this post I’ll talk about self-hosted integration runtimes and the ability to share them across Data Factories. Also, I’ll tell you about a new capability that was announced in the Azure Data Factory space. The integration runtime is essentially…
Are you looking to move large amounts of data into Azure? How does doing it for free sound and with an easier process? Today I’m here to tell you how to do just that with the Azure Data Box. Picture…
In today’s post I’d like to talk about site to site networking service. Azure already has a site to site VPN service, but the Azure Virtual WAN is a newer service currently in Preview. This networking service is optimized for…