Personal Assistants in the Cloud and Clippy’s Comeback!
Personal Assistants. Are they relevant, or just a fad like the Nintendo Wii? There seem to be personal assistants being added to everything, from smartphones,…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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Introducing Microsoft Coco Framework for Blockchain
Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. These cryptocurrencies use Blockchain to implement a secure, write-once-read-many transaction ledger. However, there are…
Azure IoT DevKit: Upgrade Firmware – MXChip, AZ3166
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is built for prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and getting started quickly and easily. As part…
Azure IoT DevKit: Configure Wifi Connectivity – No Wifi?
The Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is a great prototyping board that is easy to get started with and use. Setting up and configuring…
Order Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) on Amazon with FREE Shipping
The Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) is a really amazing little IoT (Internet of Things) prototyping board with lots of sensors, buttons, OLED display, Wifi,…
Azure IoT Developer Kits (AZ3166) Have Arrived
The Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible Internet of Things (IoT) board with quite a few sensors, buttons, and display all built-in. The…
Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT?
Both Azure Event Grid and Azure IoT Hub are massively scalable messaging services in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. There’s a lot of talk about Azure…
Microsoft Azure gets a new Logo and a Manifesto
Out of the MANY different announcements made today is included the fact that Microsoft has created a new logo for the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…
Azure Regions and Availability Zones
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]For a long time, since the beginning of Microsoft Azure, the most granular control you could have for choosing…
More Affordable Azure VMs with “Burstable” B-Series
One of the most common complaints about Azure Virtual Machine (VM) pricing is that it’s too expensive for small workloads. For custom web applications you…
Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) Manufacturing Delayed, Shipping pushed to Sept 21
The new Azure IoT Developer Kit is a pretty nice IoT prototyping board with tons of sensors and things built-in. On Aug 11, 2017, Microsoft,…
Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Event Grid, Queues, Topics, IoT Hub, and More)
In the early days of Microsoft Azure, there were only a couple message queue service; Azure Storage Queue and Service Bus. This was way back…
What is Azure Event Grid?
Azure Event Grid is a messaging service built to enable event-based architectures to be built more easily. At the basic level it’s similar to a…
Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions
Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud. Azure Functions is the Serverless Compute service options available…
OpenAI Wins Dota 2 Tournament using Microsoft Azure
On August 11, 2017, it was announced that OpenAI beat the world’s top professionals at 1v1 matches of Dota 2 tournament under standard rules. The…
Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order
The new Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit board is pretty amazing! It is Arduino compatible and includes many sensors, buttons, and an OLED display all…
Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible board built for helping with prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The key difference with…
Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud
The Azure Stack announcement we’ve been waiting for for about 2 years has finally come; Microsoft announced the ability to order Azure Stack hardware from…
Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT
One of the long time frustrations with Raspberry Pi development is that you needed a physical device and hardware (sensors, buttons, etc) to fully develop…
70-475 Big Data Analytics Exam – Feb 2017 Update (RETIRED)
The 70-475 Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions certification exam was first published Oct. 27, 2015. Many features and services in the Microsoft Azure…