In the modern business landscape, the intake of information and data is growing at an incredibly rapid pace. Organizations, regardless of size, need to quickly gain insights from all data to inform customer experiences and empower their employees. Current solutions are bespoke and siloed, leading to users spending considerable time and resources stitching together disparate […]
Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools
In the modern business landscape, the intake of information and data is growing at an incredibly rapid pace. Organizations, regardless of size, need to quickly gain insights from all data to inform customer experiences and empower their employees. Current solutions are bespoke and siloed, leading to users spending considerable time and resources stitching together disparate […]
High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications
This post was co-authored with Sherry Yu, Director of SAP Success Architect, SUSE. In today’s business world, service availability and reliability are key to a successful digital transformation. Extensive downtime not only costs a business revenue and productivity, but may also cause reputational damage. SUSE and Microsoft have been working closely to provide a trusted […]
High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications
This post was co-authored with Sherry Yu, Director of SAP Success Architect, SUSE. In today’s business world, service availability and reliability are key to a successful digital transformation. Extensive downtime not only costs a business revenue and productivity, but may also cause reputational damage. SUSE and Microsoft have been working closely to provide a trusted […]
Dive deep into NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior
In our last blog, we examined a scenario on how network address translation (NAT) gateway mitigates connection failures happening at the same destination endpoint with its randomized source network address translation (SNAT) port selection and reuse timers. In addition to handling these scenarios, NAT gateway’s unique SNAT port allocation is beneficial to dynamic, scaling workloads […]
Gain Deeper Insights with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
Data is foundational to any digital transformation strategy, yet many organizations struggle to understand what data they have, how to extract insights from it, and how to govern it—according to a 2022 Evanta survey1, over half of Chief Data Officers (CDOs) struggle with siloed operating models when it comes to data sharing and democratization. According to […]
Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark
Azure Data Explorer (ADX), a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log and telemetry data. It is the perfect service to analyze high volumes of fresh and […]
Announcing Microsoft Dev Box Preview
Many IT organizations must choose between giving developers the flexibility they need to be productive and keeping developer workstations managed and secure. Supply chain challenges have led to developers waiting weeks or months to get the hardware they need, forcing them to use aging hardware or unsecured personal devices. At the same time, hybrid work […]
Google Introduces Zero-ETL Approach to Analytics on Bigtable Data Using BigQuery
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Bigtable federated queries with BigQuery allowing customers to query data residing in Bigtable via BigQuery faster. Moreover, the querying is without moving or copying the data in all Google Cloud regions with increased federated query concurrency limits, closing the longstanding gap between operational data and analytics. By Steef-Jan […]
Microsoft is a Leader in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services
Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services, with Microsoft placed furthest in “Completeness of Vision”. Gartner defines the market as “cloud-hosted or containerized services that enable development teams and business users who are not data science experts to use AI models via APIs, software […]