This blog post was authored by Tina Coll, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Today, we’re unveiling the preview of Immersive Reader, a new Azure Cognitive Service in the Language category. Developers can now use this service to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age […]
Archives for 2019
Q&A: MongoDB’s Ittycheria Talks New Path as a Data Platform
After establishing a reputation around its database, MongoDB is out to prove it is a data platform company that can challenge incumbents.
New Mexico Adopts Mandatory Combined Reporting
Beginning in 2020, New Mexico combined reporting will be mandatory for corporations that are members of a unitary business group. New Mexico has an exception, however, for corporations that properly elect to report and pay tax on taxable income as a: water’s edge group; or consolidated group. Currently, the state permits elective combined reporting; though […]
GDPR One Year Later: Was the Hype Worth It?
Only time will tell with how GDPR and regulators can keep up with the influx of breaches and violations, but that doesn’t mean GDPR is something to brush aside.
Virtual machine scale set insights from Azure Monitor
In October 2018 we announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines (VMs). At that time, we included support for monitoring your virtual machine scale sets from the at scale view under Azure Monitor. Today we are announcing the public preview of monitoring your Windows and Linux VM scale sets from within the scale […]
Trump EPA to unveil replacement for Obama’s power plant rule
The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new carbon emission rule for the U.S. power industry on Wednesday, replacing an Obama-era regulation to fight climate change that it scrapped for being too hard on the coal industry.
China launches anti-dumping investigation into synthetic rubber product
China’s Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday it is launching an anti-dumping investigation imports of a synthetic rubber product from the United States, South Korea and the European Union following a request from major petrochemical producers.
Exclusive: Libyan steel maker plans $1 billion tender in July, output hike in 2019
The Libyan Iron and Steel Company (Lisco), one of North Africa’s biggest steelmakers, plans to launch a tender next month worth $1 billion to build two new plants and also aims to increase production this year, its chairman said.
First Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East now available
This blog post was co-authored by Paul Lorimer, Distinguished Engineer, Office 365. Azure and Office 365 generally available today, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform available by end of 2019 Today, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 are taking a major step together to help support the digital transformation of our customers. Both Azure and Office […]
Presentation: Apache Metron in the Real World – Big Data and Cybersecurity, a Perfect Match
Dave Russell takes a look at a number of different organizations who are on their big data cybersecurity journey with Apache Metron, covering different use cases they are investigating, the data sources they used, the analytics they performed and in some cases the results they were able to find. By Dave Russell