Once you adopt Azure Site Recovery, monitoring of your setup can become a very involved exercise. You’ll need to ensure that the replication for all protected instances continue and that virtual machines are always ready for failover. While Azure Site Recovery solves this need by providing point-in-time health status, active health alerts, and the latest […]
Archives for 2019
AICPA Proposes Amendments to Incorporate Recent Auditor Reporting Changes
The AICPA has issued the Exposure Draft, Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards: Amendments to AU-C Sections 800, 805, and 810 to Incorporate Auditor Reporting Changes From SAS No. 134. The comment due date is October 28, 2019. SAS 134 The AICPA issued Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 134, Auditor Reporting and Amendments, Including Amendments […]
Goldman-backed CityFibre bids for TalkTalk’s FibreNation: Sky News
Goldman Sachs-backed British broadband operator CityFibre has tabled a bid for rival TalkTalk’s network company, FibreNation, Sky News reported on Wednesday.
Do Self-Service and Low-Code Curb Shadow IT?
Self-service may help reduce shadow IT, but it won’t eliminate it. Business-IT relationships help.
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 42
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 86 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications 360°VR Museum: The 360°VR Museum is a virtual exhibition platform that allows users to view HD 360-degree re-creations of local and international exhibitions where visitors […]
PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2
Congratulations to the PyTorch community on the release of PyTorch 1.2! Last fall, as part of our dedication to open source AI, we made PyTorch one of the primary, fully supported training frameworks on Azure. PyTorch is supported across many of our AI platform services and our developers participate in the PyTorch community, contributing key […]
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland
UBS Group, Swiss Re Group, Swisscom, and others turn to Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure from our new cloud regions in Switzerland. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital […]
Russia’s Rostec unit ready for out-of-court deal with Boeing on 737 MAX order
A unit of Russian conglomerate Rostec said on Tuesday it was ready for an out-of-court settlement with Boeing over its order for 35 Boeing 737 MAX jets, a spokesman for Rostec’s subsidiary Avia Capital Service told Reuters.
Banks Ramp Up Machine Learning, Work Through Data Challenges
Machine learning in pilot and production is growing in many industries, and finance is no exception, but there are concerns.
AI Rushes Forward Driven by a Sense of Urgency
We don’t know where we are going with artificial intelligence, but we are going there fast.