I’m excited to announce our second Azure Blueprint for an important compliance standard with the release of the PCI-DSS v3.2.1 blueprint. The new blueprint maps a core set of policies for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) compliance to any Azure deployed architecture, allowing businesses such as retailers to quickly create new environments […]
Solving the problem of duplicate records in healthcare
As the U.S. healthcare system continues to transition away from paper to more a digitized ecosystem, the ability to link all of an individual’s medical data together correctly becomes increasingly challenging. Patients move, marry, divorce, change names and visit multiple providers throughout their lifetime, with each visit creating new records, and the potential for inconsistent […]
Event-driven analytics with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Most modern-day businesses employ analytics pipelines for real-time and batch processing. A common characteristic of these pipelines is that data arrives at irregular intervals from diverse sources. This adds complexity in terms of having to orchestrate the pipeline such that data gets processed in a timely fashion. The answer to these challenges lies in coming […]
Using natural language processing to manage healthcare records
The next time you see your physician, consider the times you fill in a paper form. It may seem trivial, but the information could be crucial to making a better diagnosis. Now consider the other forms of healthcare data that permeate your life—and that of your doctor, nurses, and the clinicians working to keep patients […]
Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience. […]
Azure Cosmos DB: A competitive advantage for healthcare ISVs
This blog was co-authored by Shweta Mishra, Senior Solutions Architect, CitiusTech and Vinil Menon, Chief Technology Officer, CitiusTech CitiusTech is a specialist provider of healthcare technology services which helps its customers to accelerate innovation in healthcare. CitiusTech used Azure Cosmos DB to simplify the real-time collection and movement of healthcare data from variety of sources […]
Azure Security Expert Series: Learn best practices and Customer Lockbox general availability
With more computing environments moving to the cloud, the need for stronger cloud security has never been greater. But what constitutes effective cloud security, and what best practices should you be following? While Microsoft Azure delivers unmatched built-in security, it is important that you understand the breadth of security controls and take advantage of them […]
Azure Security Expert Series: Learn best practices and Customer Lockbox general availability
With more computing environments moving to the cloud, the need for stronger cloud security has never been greater. But what constitutes effective cloud security, and what best practices should you be following? While Microsoft Azure delivers unmatched built-in security, it is important that you understand the breadth of security controls and take advantage of them […]
New to Azure? Follow these easy steps to get started
Today, many organizations are leveraging digital transformation to deliver their applications and services in the cloud. At Microsoft Build 2019, we announced the general availability of Azure Quickstart Center and received positive feedback from customers. Azure Quickstart Center brings together the step-by-step guidance you need to easily create cloud workloads. The power to easily set […]
Microsoft positioned as a leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Database-as-a-service
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Database-as-a-service, Q2 2019. This decision is based on their evaluation of Azure relational and non-relational databases. We believe Microsoft’s position as a leader is further underscored by its standing in the recent Q1 2019 NoSQL Forrester WaveTM. Database-as-a-service has […]