Customers love the scale of Azure that gives them the ability to expand across the globe, while being highly available. Through the rapidly growing adoption of Azure, customers need to access the data and services privately and securely from their networks grow exponentially. To help with this, we’re announcing the preview of Azure Private Link. […]
Archives for September 2019
Attacks on Saudi oil facilities – what will it mean for consumers?
The attack on Saudi facilities on Saturday caused the biggest oil supply disruption for more than 50 years. Here is what it could mean for consumers:
Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs
Cloud storage often serves as a content source for browser and mobile applications. This is typically achieved using application-issued, pre-authorized URLs which provide time-limited access directly to specific content without requiring a service to proxy this access. Azure Storage supports this pattern through the use of shared access signature tokens (SAS tokens). These tokens grant […]
Can you rely on your audit tool?
Quality is foundational in everything we need to do as a CPA to be the trusted advisor for clients. That really begs the question, can you really rely on the tools that you use for your audits? This is an important question to ask. If fact, there are two aspects to consider – the content and […]
How Autonomous Systems are Impacting IT
Automation isn’t new to IT, but autonomous systems are, which is why IT leaders and professionals have to think about the value they’re delivering, again.
Saudi oil exports to run as normal from stocks this week: source
Saudi Arabia’s oil exports will continue as normal this week as the kingdom taps into stocks from its large storage facilities, an industry source briefed on the developments told Reuters on Sunday.
Instant View: Reactions to attack on Saudi oil facilities
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saturday attacked two plants at the Abqaiq plant, the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, in a strike that could impact about 5 million barrels per day of crude production – close to half of the kingdom’s output or 5% of global oil supply.
Jagadish Venkatraman on LinkedIn’s Journey to Samza 1.0
At the recent ApacheCon North America, Jagadish Venkatraman spoke about how LinkedIn developed Apache Samza 1.0 to handle stream processing at scale. He described LinkedIn’s use cases involving trillions of events and petabytes of data, then highlighted the features added for the 1.0 release, including: stateful processing, high-level APIs, and a flexible deployment model. By […]
Microsoft’s Brad Smith: Tech companies won’t wait for U.S. to act on social media laws
Microsoft Corp President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said on Friday that U.S. tech companies will change how they moderate online platforms in response to new laws from foreign governments, regardless of whether U.S. lawmakers take action.
ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: Google Cloud Enhances Big-Data Processing with Kubernetes
At ApacheCon North America, Christopher Crosbie gave a keynote talk title “Yet Another Resource Negotiator for Big Data? How Google Cloud is enhancing data lake processing with Kubernetes.” He highlighted Google’s efforts to make Apache big-data software “cloud native” by developing open-source Kubernetes Operators to provide control planes for running Apache software in a Kubernetes […]