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AI + Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Best practices, Computer Vision, Text Analytics

Published • 3 min read

Azure AI does that? 

By Product Manager, Accessibility Insights

Whether you’re just starting off in tech, building, managing, or deploying apps, gathering and analyzing data, or solving global issues —anyone can benefit from using cloud technology. Below we’ve gathered five cool examples of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) to showcase how you can be a catalyst for real change.

Azure Cosmos DB, Customer stories, Databases

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How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1 

By Principal Software Engineer

Founded in 2003, Skype has grown to become one of the world’s premier communication services, making it simple to share experiences with others wherever they are. Since its acquisition by Microsoft in 2010, Skype has grown to more than four billion total users, more than 300 million monthly active users, and more than 40 million concurrent users.

Azure Cosmos DB, Customer stories, Databases, Migration

Published • 5 min read

How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2 

By Principal Software Engineer

Skype found the perfect fit in Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed NoSQL database service from Microsoft. It gave Skype everything needed for its new People Core Service (PCS), including turnkey global distribution and elastic scaling of throughput and storage, making it an ideal foundation for distributed apps like Skype that require extremely low latency at global scale.

Azure IoT Edge, Internet of Things, Partners

Published • 3 min read

Expanding Azure IoT certification service to support Azure IoT Edge devices 

By Senior Program Manager, Azure IoT

In December 2018, Microsoft launched the Azure IoT certification service, a web-based test automation workflow to streamline the certification process through self-serve tools. Azure IoT certification service (AICS) was designed to reduce the operational processes and engineering costs for hardware manufacturers to get their devices certified for Azure Certified for IoT program and be showcased on the Azure IoT device catalog.

Azure Blob Storage, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Digital Twins, Internet of Things, Partners

Published • 2 min read

Leveraging AI and digital twins to transform manufacturing with Sight Machine 

By Principal Manufacturing Industry Lead, Azure Industry Experiences Team

In the world of manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has come, and that means data. A loT of data. Smart machines, equipped with sensors, add to the large quantity of data already generated from quality systems, MES, ERP and other production systems.

Azure Resource Manager, Best practices, Compute, Hybrid + Multicloud, Microsoft Entra ID

Published • 3 min read

Azure Stack IaaS – part seven 

By Principal Program Manager

Most apps get delivered by a team. When your team delivers the app through virtual machine (VMs), it is important to coordinate efforts. Born in the cloud to serve teams from all over the world, Azure and Azure Stack have some handy capabilities to help you coordinate VM operations across your team.

Announcements, Azure Front Door, Networking

Published • 3 min read

Azure Front Door Service is now generally available 

By Principal PM Manager

Every internet facing web application, whether serving a large audience or a small set of users in a single region, is by default a global application. Whether you are running a large news website with millions of users across the globe, running a B2B application for managing your sales channels or a local pastry shop in a city – your users are distributed/roaming across multiple locations, or your application demands deployment into multiple locations for high availability or disaster recovery scenarios.