Overview of Azure Data Catalog
In today’s post, I’ll give you an overview of Azure Data Catalog and an example of how you may use it in your organization. Azure Data Catalog is used to discover Azure data sources in your environment, as well as…
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Continuous Integration and Deployment Using Azure Data Factory
Today I’m excited to talk about one of the new releases in Azure that gives you continuous integration and deployment using Azure Data Factory. This new release is an Azure Data Factory visual interface that allows you to export any…
Device Management with Azure IoT Hub
Yesterday’s post covered what Azure IoT Hub is and what it brings. Today I’m going a bit deeper and talking about how the devices you’re bringing to the table get managed. IoT Hub provides the features and extensibility that enables…
How Does Azure IoT Hub Work?
Today I’d like to talk about Internet of Things (IoT) and the Azure IoT Hub. IoT devices are not your typical devices like mobile phones, tablets or laptops. IoT devices are designed to respond to sensor activity that the device…
Overview of Azure Stream Analytics
Analytics is the key to making your data useful and supporting decision making. Today I’m excited to talk about Azure Stream Analytics. Azure Stream Analytics is an event processing engine that allows you to capture and examine high volumes of…
Azure Data Factory Integration Runtimes
This week I’ve been talking about Azure Data Factory. In today’s post I’d like to talk about the much-awaited Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime. The compute infrastructure provides data movement, connectors, data conversions and data transfers, as well as activity…
Azure Data Factory – Data Sets, Linked Services and Pipeline Executions
In my posts this week, I’ve been going a little deeper into Azure Data Factory (be sure to check out my others from Tuesday and Wednesday). I’m excited today to dig into getting data from one source into Azure. First…
Azure Data Factory Pipelines and Activities
Yesterday’s Azure Every Day post covered how Azure Data Factory pricing works. In today’s post I’d like to go a bit deeper into Azure Data Factory Version 2 and review pipelines and activities. In essence, a pipeline is a logical…
The 5 Stages of Cloud Adoption
So, still not in the cloud and the thought of doing so feels like you’re taking a huge jump into unknown waters? We’re seeing more enterprises starting to dip their toe in the water with Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has shown…
Top 6 Business Drivers for Moving to Azure
If you haven’t made the move to Azure cloud, what’s stopping you? Many businesses either have moved or are starting to and I can tell you the top 6 reasons that are driving businesses to the cloud. 1. Business Growth…